ORCHID: To the Ohio Department of Development’s Welcome Home Ohio program for awarding the Mahoning County Land Bank a $5 million grant to build 19 affordable homes, 16 of them in Youngstown. The project funding scores a win-win for the city and county. First, it will result in visible ...

Recent testimony by veteran Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins before an Ohio General Assembly committee reminded Ohioans that the state’s death penalty law has languished on life support for too many years now. Yes, the death penalty remains on the books, and yes, 122 men and one ...

Now that the dust has settled, responsible adults have a duty to look back on what we witnessed during college football’s rivalry week and understand it was all part of a larger and very disturbing trend we MUST reverse. The Atlantic Coast Conference fined four of its schools — North ...

In a state where so many political figures make a big show about how much they care about babies, some communities are walking the walk and providing an important option for desperate parents with nowhere else to turn. Last year, Lebanon, Ohio, installed a Safe Haven Baby Box at one of its ...

Earlier this week, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose certified the official results of the Nov. 5 general election. In doing so, he noted voter turnout was the second-highest on record in Ohio (the 2020 general election was the highest). With voter participation at 71.7% and more than 5.8 ...

For a fourth time now, Ohio lawmakers are working toward placing on the ballot a renewal of the multibillion State Capital Improvement Program, which one Mahoning County official referred to as “basically life support” for municipalities, townships and counties working to serve the needs of ...