According to a recent report by the Dayton Daily News, the Ohio state prison system was short more than 500 corrections officers at the end of last year. The Daily News conducted its investigation because Dayton Correctional Institution has the highest rate of openings, at 18.8%. Lebanon ...

The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland, and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all ...

Throughout 2017 and into 2018, I hoped that a moment would come when Republicans would see Donald Trump clearly. But years ago, I accepted that the scales-falling-from-the-eyes revelation will never come for the MAGA faithful. They are too invested. Still, as a recent Chicago Tribune report ...

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 ...