ORCHID: To Louis A. Zona, executive director of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, for his 44 years of dedicated service and exceptional leadership at the internationally acclaimed art gallery. The Butler Board of Trustees announced last week it was appointing Larry W. Jones as ...

Two years ago, Ohio voters approved a measure to legalize adult-use marijuana. It wasn’t even close, as the bill passed by a 57.2%to 42.8% margin. The November 2023 vote gave the greenlight to the cannabis industry in Ohio and before long, marijuana dispensaries began to sprout all over the ...

President Donald Trump got what might be considered some good news last week, though most of the major American media ignored it. According to a UK Daily Mail / J.L. Partners survey, the president’s approval rating increased from 45% to 47% between Nov. 21 and Dec. 4. The poll included 1,000 ...

It seems half the country’s political figures have been instructed to grin like a theme-park greeter. Supposedly, that makes them seem friendly, approachable, relatable. When I want humanoid patter, I turn to chatbots. They’re more convincing. Why this epidemic of wax museum smiles? ...

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it “For your Christmas wish list,” it understandably caused an ...

President Donald Trump likes to tout his accomplishments, and saving the gas-powered car should be high on the list. The president is ending a lunatic government campaign against the internal combustion engine, one of the defining mechanisms of our age. This uneconomical push for electric ...