CHEERS to Bill Neptune of New Concord, Ohio, on his fourth claiming of the title King Pumpkin grower. Neptune’s gourd weighed in at 1,950 pounds on Wednesday evening during the unofficial start of the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival. JEERS to more cases of animal hoarding being found in the ...
“Deeply frustrated.” That was how U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who represents all of Alaska in the U.S. House, described her reaction to the heavy-handed move by the Biden administration to cancel remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge Beyond needed jobs for ...
Ohio is among the states to be receiving part of another $667 million in rural broadband loans and grants, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is Round Four in the awarding of USDA Rural Development ReConnect money, and Ohio is getting a $5 million loan for Sycamore Telephone Co, ...
Back when Norfolk Southern was making promises in an effort to halt passage of the Railway Safety Act, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, avoided getting involved with the process. Now, he says, it is clear he made the right call. “In the run up to the markup of the Railway Safety Act, Norfolk Southern ...
Federal lawmakers quietly ignoring calls to reform railroad safety appear to have given at least one rail giant the courage it needed to continue to ignore safety in general. It has been more than seven months since a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio. In ...
What a mess. Ohio’s redistricting process just keeps running up against one political obstacle after another. Late last week there was a double hit, as Thursday night Gov. Mike DeWine canceled a planned Friday meeting of the Ohio Redistricting Commission because Republican lawmakers STILL ...