“Deeply frustrated.” That was how U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democrat who represents all of Alaska in the U.S. House, described her reaction to the heavy-handed move by the Biden administration to cancel remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge Beyond needed jobs for ...

Ohio is among the states to be receiving part of another $667 million in rural broadband loans and grants, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is Round Four in the awarding of USDA Rural Development ReConnect money, and Ohio is getting a $5 million loan for Sycamore Telephone Co, ...

Back when Norfolk Southern was making promises in an effort to halt passage of the Railway Safety Act, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, avoided getting involved with the process. Now, he says, it is clear he made the right call. “In the run up to the markup of the Railway Safety Act, Norfolk Southern ...

Federal lawmakers quietly ignoring calls to reform railroad safety appear to have given at least one rail giant the courage it needed to continue to ignore safety in general. It has been more than seven months since a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio. In ...

What a mess. Ohio’s redistricting process just keeps running up against one political obstacle after another. Late last week there was a double hit, as Thursday night Gov. Mike DeWine canceled a planned Friday meeting of the Ohio Redistricting Commission because Republican lawmakers STILL ...

CHEERS to the young scientists at East Richland Christian School who participated in Ohio’s 2023 State Science Day. They were recognized by the Belmont County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday. JEERS to word that the village of Belmont does not have the funding available to complete ...