CHEERS to news that the Ohio Department of Transportation will reconstruct the historic Blaine Hill Bridge, but JEERS to the fact that work likely will not begin until 2027. JEERS to word that teens meeting with the Why Don’t You Stay A While group believe there is “nothing to do” in the ...
Remember the Book It! program that kept many of us interested in reading through our formative years? It is still alive and well, turning 40 this year, and has spun off into supporting a National Young Readers’ Week each November. It is billed as “the perfect opportunity to introduce our ...
“Other people have no First Amendment right to your phone and free speech doesn’t protect telephone harassment.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost posted those words on social media after opening an inquiry into a series of hateful texts that reached Ohioans, which were part of a ...
Whether it was confusion over ballot language or truly a desire to maintain the system already in place, Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected an amendment that would have established a citizen-led commission to produce the state’s political maps. Though voters decided the Citizens Not Politicians ...
CHEERS to all of the new and returning elected officeholders who were successful in the general election. Now that the campaigning is over, it’s time to get down to business. JEERS to the fact that some needed property tax levies and bond issues were defeated on Tuesday at the polls. Local ...
“This is in every community, far and wide.” Amy Riegel, executive director of the Coalition on Housing and Homelessness in Ohio, was speaking Monday about homelessness, poverty and the shortage of affordable housing in the Buckeye State. The number of good paying jobs has not kept up ...