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Bellaire seems on right track after rough patch

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If the acrimony that surrounded Bellaire Village Council and Mayor Robert Dodrill late last week and earlier this week is what led to the conciliatory tones that group ultimately took with each other, then the earlier chaos might have been worth it. Dodrill shocked his constituents last week by announcing he would resign as mayor just three months after taking the oath of office, following former village fiscal officer Ginny Favede out the door. Among the reasons he offered were concerns over the village’s finances with the previous administration, as well as a feeling that other ...

Weighing Political Risks Of Waging War Against Iran

Columns

Will President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, undertaken in alignment with Israel, prove to be an electoral albatross for Republicans in November? Could Democrats, salivating at the prospect of impeaching and removing Trump from office in 2027, regain control of the House and Senate, fueled by the political repercussions of this war? Political clairvoyance is a rara avis. But the odds appear unfavorable to Trump and the Republican Party. Consider first the price of energy, including gasoline at the pump. A significant portion of the world’s oil and gas supply passes through the ...

Suffering Though Silent Attacks On Personal Freedom

Columns

During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link. When FBI Director Christopher Wray was confronted with evidence of this purchase in 2021, he stated under oath at a congressional hearing that his agents did not and would not use it; but they bought it because they wanted to understand how it worked. He claimed that it was ...

Three Big Lies Being Told About The Iran War

Columns

If you’ve been following coverage of the Trump administration’s military action against Iran, you’ve probably noticed something: A lot of people are determined to convince you that the United States is losing. They’re wrong. Even worse, many of them know they’re wrong. Critics across the political spectrum -- from Democrats to elements of the so-called horseshoe Right -- are pushing narratives that paint the conflict as a disaster in the making. The goal is simple: Undermine public confidence and turn what is shaping up as a strategic success into a perceived ...

Affordable housing must be fixed in Ohio

Editorials

Affordable housing remains a challenge for Ohioans — and that challenge only grows as rent puts a greater strain on an increasing number of households. According to the 2026 Gap Report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, there are 422,098 extremely low-income renters in the state, and 73% of those report spending more than half their income on rent. That is an increase from 66% only five years ago. “For people at the bottom of the pay scale, rent is gobbling up most of their paychecks. But this report shows the rent ...

In building relationships, it’s friends first

Columns

The Iran war hit close to home. I literally just got off a Zoom call with Dasn, a friend and business owner from Oman. They had a drone strike this morning from Iran that hit outside his factory and killed two people. He was emotional, “Oman is a peaceful country. We are friends with everyone. We host peace talks. We are one of the few countries still trading with Iran. They are crazy! Why would they attack a market and an industrial area with no military ties. They are destroying oil infrastructure in the region.” The drone strikes are terrorist acts meant to scare people and are ...