News over the weekend of the senseless and tragic death of a 3-year-old boy who shot himself in the head with an unsecured and unlocked gun in a Struthers home should sound a clarion call to all firearms owners to double down on stringent and safe storage practices. The heartbreaking calamity ...
President Trump’s time in elected office has been defined by draining the Washington, D.C., swamp and putting American manufacturers and working families first. I’m happy to report that Ohio’s elected leaders are now taking the same approach to Columbus. The General Assembly cast a ...
On a sunny morning in May 1984, I reported for a job as first lady Nancy Reagan’s speech writer. I drove my Toyota Corolla up to the Ellipse, careful to display the special tag permitting me to park quite close to the East Wing, and ventured inside, past the line of visitors awaiting their ...
DEAR EDITOR: As a proud Republican, a lifelong Ohioan and an active member of my local Chamber of Commerce, I was proud to see Congress pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It was a major win for small business owners, working families and rural communities. But that win could be short-lived ...
ORCHID: To Ann Saksa and her daughter Jennifer Saksa for devoting a combined 54 years of dedicated service to the Trumbull Career and Technical Center in Champion. Between them, they helped keep the halls and classrooms of the sprawling school in ship shape ever since it first opened as the ...
DEAR EDITOR: “Wake up!” Tell me you can’t see the similarity between the Third Reich (Adolph Hitler) and the “Fourth Reich” (Donald Trump)? Look at the history: Hitler’s Brown Shirts and Trump’s MAGA followers and Hitler’s SS and Gestapo and Trump’s ICE. Look further and ...