ORCHID: To Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries for organizing a Thrift Trail that links about a dozen nonprofit community service organizations in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties that offer merchandise and services. Participating stores and consignment shops include the St. Vincent ...

At the starting gate this month to the second session of the 136th Ohio General Assembly, hopes run low that this will be a banner year for enactment of significant milestone legislation. After all, 2026 rises as a hotly contested political year for 99 representatives, 17 senators as well as ...

In 2015, the Supreme Court overlooked its prior decision and by a 5-4 vote declared the 14th Amendment requires every state to grant same-sex marriages identical recognition to those of opposite sex couples. At the time I asked if the Court believed two people of the same sex could marry each ...

Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what’s happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should be another question: Where are the fathers? And by fathers, we do not mean men who merely spread their seed and then take off, but men ...

In a scene in Robert Bolt's famous play "A Man for All Seasons," about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he'd cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were ...

Last Monday we honored the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Trump has removed MLK Jr.’s birthday from the National Park Service’s fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day. I write this more in sorrow than in anger. All told, I feel profound sorrow ...