ORCHID: To leaders of the Austintown Local School District for constructing an impressive outdoors Veterans Plaza to permanently honor our nation’s proud military heroes. The new plaza, which features benches surrounded by an arrangement of seven flagpoles with the American flag at the ...

Our great state has long been stained with the seedy reputation as a hotbed for human trafficking. Indeed one can readily find Ohio ranked among the top five states in the nation for the number of cases of this insidious and destructive crime. It’s easy to understand why. The crime involves ...

The autopen has been around in one form or another since Thomas Jefferson was president. According to shapell.org, “In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the president to sign a bill using the autopen.” He was ...

My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, “How was it?” She said, “Awful.” They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience ...

While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants, presidentially imposed sales taxes on goods emanating from foreign countries that have been invalidated by three federal courts, and the fruitless Kabuki dance between President ...

President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it — without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery. It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal ...