The Trumbull County Board of Elections is expected to vote today on whether Republican Sarah Thomas Kovoor is eligible to be a candidate for a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court judicial seat though I suspect it won’t end there. Regardless of what happens, county Republican Party officials ...

The Trumbull County Republican Party has been in a state of flux for nearly a year with resignations from seven party officers. The recent election of new officers has done little to smooth over the divisiveness. By most accounts, Michael Bollas, elected chairman last week, is well liked and ...

With so few candidates on Tuesday’s second primary ballot, there was little suspense. Youngstown Councilwoman Lauren McNally was expected to have little trouble beating three other candidates in the Democratic primary for the 59th Ohio House District nomination, and she received 55.5 ...

The early retirement of Judge Peter J. Kontos will allow a Republican to sit on the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court bench for the first time in years — though it could be short-lived. The county Republican Party is moving swiftly to have Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, appoint a ...

It was six weeks ago today that Kenneth Kline stood before Trumbull County Republican Party’s central committee to criticize the five party officers who resigned since his election as chairman last year. “They quit on me, they quit on you, they quit on our candidates,” Kline said. He ...

The $9.1 million U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan raised from donors in the second quarter for his Senate campaign is an amount never before seen in Ohio. Still, I don’t know if it’s enough to get him elected in a largely Republican state during a year expected to be terrible nationally for Democrats. ...