Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski behaved so badly via social media that the U.S. Department of Justice plans to send in election monitors to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws during early voting and on Election Day. Last month Zuchowski felt comfortable suggesting on ...

“We have to attack this scourge by curbing the demand,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Monday, referring to those who seek to buy sex in the Buckeye State. He was announcing the arrests of 132 people as part of a statewide human-trafficking operation that involved more than 100 law ...

Just as Ohio is beginning to see signs the tide is weakening in the substance abuse epidemic, a new danger rears its head. Xylazine-related overdose deaths are on the rise. Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer that is becoming popular. Speaking to WTOL about his observations in other cities, ...

Ohioans hope for a rosy future, as politicians hand us promise after promise to distract from reality. We know there is potential, but numbers don’t lie, and the Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Research took a look at population projections from 2020 to 2050 to show us what ...

CHEERS to the Village Network for bringing a new Therapeutic Stabilization Center to its Bethesda facility that will provide additional space and treatment options for youth in crisis. JEERS to the back-to-back blows that hurricanes have dealt to Florida and its residents. Let’s hope the ...

With the release of the Century Foundation’s report “Child Care Funding Cliff at One Year: Rising Prices, Shrinking Options, and Families Squeezed,” there was a look at challenges in Ohio, but also some praise for measures taken by the state ahead of the expiration of COVID-19-era federal ...