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It Will Take Hometown Heroes to Fix Broken Towns Sep. 10, 2019
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — Greg Bricker is tired of his community looking through the rearview mir... Read More
We Cannot Afford Cynicism Aug. 08, 2019
Our 11-year-old grandson is with us for the week, and we are having the sort of conversations that i... Read More
No, Mr. President, Not Both Sides Aug. 08, 2019
After the massacres in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, we watched Donald Trump, the president who ... Read More
Good Men With Guns Won't Protect Us Aug. 06, 2019
It was a remarkable 13 hours in American history. A mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, taking nine lives... Read More
Ohio the Comeback State May. 14, 2019
I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Insti... Read More
High Schoolers Can Handle This? Apr. 25, 2019
High school seniors in suburban Columbus, Ohio, get to take a class that could well be banned on man... Read More
Now, More Than Ever, You Need a Rescue Pet Mar. 27, 2019
We've got some good news here in the battleground state of Ohio, and it's from the state legislature... Read More
Sherrod Brown Will Be Missed Mar. 09, 2019
Why should it be of any importance or interest that Sherrod Brown, the third-term U.S. senator from ... Read More
The Populist Sledgehammer Kills Amazon Jobs that Middle America Would Love to Have Feb. 19, 2019
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Tito Brown can't imagine driving a perfectly good thing out of a town that ... Read More
Sister, Teacher Jan. 02, 2019
Last month, I drove an hour east of Cleveland to Ashtabula, Ohio, where I grew up and where my young... Read More
Nevada GOP Offers Lessons for America Dec. 09, 2018
Here is the third installment of my assessment of the Nevada GOP tragedy. Again, it's not just about... Read More
The Perils of Ingratitude -- A Thanksgiving Admonition Nov. 22, 2018
Thanksgiving, America's homegrown national holiday, stands out for honoring the precious native peop... Read More
About Those Halloween Horror Stories Nov. 08, 2018
Alas, no surprise here: A 5-year-old Galion, Ohio, boy who tested positive for methamphetamine after... Read More
Good Republicans Must Vote for Democrats Aug. 16, 2018
The most memorable campaign event I attended in 2016 was a rally for John Kasich in Rhode Island. Th... Read More
Good Golly, Ohio Aug. 08, 2018
Golly, the political landscape of Ohio is confounding. I say that as a lifelong Ohioan who knows tha... Read More
The Trump-Era GOP Faces a Test in Ohio Special Election Aug. 07, 2018
NEWARK, Ohio — In a special election for Congress, the single most important message to get ac... Read More
Democrats Should Move to the Center -- of the Country Jul. 26, 2018
Contrary to what we hear, "the energy" in the Democratic Party is coming not so much from the politi... Read More
A Teenager's Visit to the Border, and the Mile That Changed Her Jun. 20, 2018
If she wanted to, 17-year-old Mary Grace Geise could pretend that what is happening to migrants at o... Read More
Populist Sherrod Brown Could Be the Perfect Democrat for Trump Country Jun. 19, 2018
CANFIELD, OHIO — While a crucial federal election is happening here this year, the U.S. Senate... Read More
Supreme Court's Big Blow Against Voter Fraud Is Game-Changer Jun. 14, 2018
The 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding an Ohio law that uses "special procedures" to remove invali... Read More
