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, ...

Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, said, “If I win Mahoning County, the race is over, over. It’s over.” He’s right. Mahoning and Trumbull counties were two Democratic strongholds for 80 years until Republican Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Trump ...

For the second straight presidential election year, a vendor hired to print and mail absentee ballots to Mahoning Valley voters failed to do its job. This time it was ElectionIQ LLC, an Akron company, hired by the Mahoning County Board of Elections to print and mail ballots that got fired ...

Before candidates seek political office, there are a few things they should do. Among them are to make sure they pay any delinquent property taxes, clear up any outstanding legal issues against them, and if you’ve had problems in the past, don’t ignore them or discount them when this ...