It is not just federal elected officials who have dropped the ball for their constituents as they got tired of pretending to work on our behalf before their holiday break. In Columbus, necessary change was avoided when Senate Bill 271 and House Bill 263 failed to advance, stalling the effort to ...

As has become this newspaper’s holiday tradition, today our editorial board once again offers readers a belated gift in the form of what we believe is the best Christmas editorial ever written. It initially appeared not in December, but in September 1897, in the New York Sun, after ...

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she ...

As they neared the finish line on a session during which they neglected bills that might have helped Ohioans, lawmakers also slipped into House Bill 315 a provision (similar to changes made in the last budget bill) that will undoubtedly hurt them. HB 315 passed with little notice shortly after ...

ORCHID: To Youngstown city officials for their plans to enter into an agreement with Bluelofts Inc. of Dallas to redevelop the nine-story city-owned 20 Federal Place office building in the heart of downtown Youngstown into a 100-unit apartment complex with additional space for retail and ...

In one critical area of the city of Youngstown’s identity, things certainly will be looking up come 2025. After decades of slow but steady work to tear down aging, dilapidated, blighted and public health-threatening properties in every quadrant of the city, efforts will begin in earnest ...