By his own account, Tim Ryan, a Democrat who represented the Mahoning Valley in the U.S. House for 20 years, has achieved his ideal professional-personal life balance. “I am so happy right now,” Ryan told me. “This is the happiest I’ve been personally and professionally in a long time ...

It was a foregone conclusion that Dave Joyce and Michael Rulli, the two Republican congressmen who represent the Mahoning Valley, were going to win reelection. The only questions were: By what margin and how much money would they raise? The quick answer to both is: a lot. Joyce, ...

Despite a lack of unity, Republicans in Trumbull County are riding a historic wave of success. Now the party is looking for stability and that may prove to be a bigger challenge than beating Democrats. The disharmony was evident during Tuesday’s central committee meeting to choose its ...

Remarkably, the Trumbull Republican Party – which can boast of gaining nearly complete control over the executive branch of county government and is making inroads in the judicial branch – is looking for a new chair for the third time in 30 months. If you count two interim chairs, the ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has a big decision to make: Who will he select to replace U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance who will resign to be sworn in as vice president of the United States? Vance’s political career has skyrocketed in a short time. After getting the coveted endorsement from Donald Trump before the ...

Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Tom McCabe said that years ago he and Mark Munroe, a former party chairman, would routinely get calls from GOP leaders asking if it was possible for a statewide candidate to possibly do better than 35% in the county. “If we got 36% for a candidate, ...