Elected municipal officials in two Ohio communities got a harsh reminder last week about who they are supposed to serve and the power of those voters to make them pay for not truly listening to and representing them. According to a report in the Cincinnati Enquirer, both instances involved ...
Ohio has some work to do if it is to attract the kinds of employers that will propel its economy to prosperity. According to an Axios report on Heartland Forward’s analysis of states’ “entrepreneurial capacity,” Ohio ranked 40th in terms of new companies, business-friendliness and ...
Three years ago, Ohio voters overwhelmingly said they wanted a constitutional amendment to create a bipartisan commission to handle the redrawing of political boundaries every decade. Last week, that commission decided not to do its job. It never even considered a proposal, according to a ...
In case the end of Daylight Savings Time has crept up on you, consider this your reminder that at 2 a.m. Sunday, we “fall back,” setting our clocks back one hour and dragging out all the usual moaning about leaving work when it is already dark outside. But there are benefits to the ...
Well-intended reasons may be behind recent actions by elected leaders on the national and even local levels, but we believe they are reaching too far into the private lives of both workers and constituents. A questionable COVID-19 vaccine mandate came recently from President Joe Biden for ...
When Ohioans think about the substance abuse epidemic, they likely are thinking about opioids or methamphetamines. But there is another, much more common substance affecting residents — increasingly so as depression and anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic have led some to attempt ...
When taxpayer dollars started gushing out of Washington, D.C., with the onset of efforts to mitigate the economic damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic, not everyone who took advantage of the flood had good intentions. Here in Ohio, an audit of the Department of Job and Family Services showed ...
Officials in India gave the world an honest assessment of the challenges presented to those who are truly interested in addressing climate change — as opposed to those who just enjoy political preaching and picking winners and loser. Ahead of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Rome, ...
As recently announced, Social Security recipients will receive a near 6% increase in benefits in 2022. It’s the largest “raise” in 30 years. Of course, there’s a downside: The increase is due to the highest inflation this country has seen in decades. Food items of all kind. Gasoline. ...
We know state governments have been pulling out all kinds of tricks to entice residents to save lives by getting the COVID-19 vaccine. But now the American Red Cross is so desperate to encourage people to save lives by donating blood that they, too, are getting creative. It may not be a ...