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Mahoning clerk of courts attracts controversy

It’s almost as if there’s a magnetic force attracting Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Michael Ciccone to controversy. The remarkable thing is Ciccone has been in office for only about 19 months. Ciccone first garnered attention back in December 2023 when he served as the attorney for 28 voters of Jennifer Ciccone who contested the results of the Struthers Municipal Court election that she lost by 10.28%. Michael Ciccone’s complaint claimed, without providing details, that there was massive fraud in that race that James Melone convincingly won. A week after filing the lawsuit, ...

Islamists are playing the long game in American politics

This week, primary voters in Michigan went to the polls to decide which candidate will represent their party in the fight to replace the outgoing Sen. Gary Peters. For Democrats, it will be Abdul El-Sayed. Unsurprisingly, much of the focus when it comes to El-Sayed rests not on his socialist ideology, or if he’s actually a doctor, or even his recent glow-up, but that he’s an anti-Semite. Given that his supporters include self-hating Jew Sen. Bernie Sanders, “not an expert on geopolitics” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and professional Jew-hater Linda Sarsour, it’s hardly ...

Dangerous drugs are now entering Ohio

Those who have considered having naloxone on-hand because there is a chance they might need it to help someone who has overdosed have a new reason to keep it available. Ohio’s Department of Public Safety issued a warning last week about new substances that have entered the state’s drug supply. According to a report by WSYX, the Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center says the first problem is the arrival of orphine analogs — synthetic opioids. These mimic the effects of drugs such as morphine and fentanyl and can disrupt breathing and impact the central nervous system. The second ...

Bringing Richard Nixon back home

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn’t take any of us kids with her and didn’t say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple hours. The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public pressure against him for his Watergate burglary coverup and conduct of the Vietnam War came at great cost to the country. Several Republican senators went to the White House and told him the truth: They would no longer support him, and he had to go or else be forced from office. ...

Why are Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats?

Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics. Most prominent are members of Congress Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Most prominent among several mayors is Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, now running for the Senate seat in Michigan, could become the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate. A question that comes to mind is: Why are these Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats? They generally hold up their Muslim religion as a prominent part of ...

Novel concept: not attempting to fix what is not broken

It is high praise from the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association that the group is asking the state’s next governor — whoever that might be — not to touch the state’s workers’ compensation system or undo reforms that have generated results for employers AND workers. It is not broken. It does not need a politician to fix it. “Ohio’s workers’ compensation system is working, and the next governor should keep it that way,” said OMA President Ryan Augsburger. “Employers are paying the lowest rates in more than 65 years, injured workers are protected, and surplus funds are ...