In 1975, the state of Ohio commissioned a cost-reduction team to examine waste and inefficiency in state government. After the short, six-week study, the team recommended cuts in specific areas totaling over $8 million per year. In fact, I was told by a member of the team that we barely ...

DEAR EDITOR: If I read the article in Friday’s paper (Feb. 6) correctly, a Mr. Charles Ingram allegedly posted videos calling for the killing of any number of people because of the performance of the ICE agents in Minneapolis. Among the persons he mentioned were border guards. What is ...

DEAR EDITOR: Author Robert Caro, a guest on PBS History with David Rubenstein, wrote several books about Lyndon B. Johnson. He recalled one story about the Texas U.S. Senate race in 1947. Johnson lost, so they thought. Election polls started finding uncounted ballots. One box had ballots that ...

DEAR EDITOR: I attended the Warren City Council meeting on Feb. 10. The issue of the dog warden came up in the caucus meeting and the council meeting regarding the contract of the dog warden, Jason Cooke. The first lady who spoke said that the city needs to keep Jason on as dog warden and ...

DEAR EDITOR: Ohioans are focused on affordability as we head into the political season. At the top of that list is property taxes. So much so, that abolishment of property taxes may appear on the ballot. Whether it does make the ballot or not — every single candidate for office needs to ...

DEAR EDITOR: In your Jan. 9 edition you ran a story about Dave Thomas filing for reelection in the 65th House district which was hardly news. Fast forward to Feb. 3, and you chose to ignore something that was actually news, the filing of Lorna Westlake, a Democrat, to oppose Thomas in the 65th ...