U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, can be forgiven for his enthusiasm over a recent report. After all, the good news being proclaimed by the Ohio Natural Energy Institute’s “The Essential Facts on Essential Ohio Energy” are a re-polished version of shiny proclamations we’ve been hearing ...

KFF Health News, published a report called “Dead Zone: Millions in U.S. Live in Places Where Doctors Don’t Practice and Telehealth Doesn’t Reach.” It’s an intriguing look at communities and counties where residents tend to have more health problems, fewer health professionals and ...

Efforts in Columbus to address the shortage in affordable housing appear to be making a difference, though the momentum must be maintained. According to the 2025 Gap Report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, there is a deficit ...

Family and friends of Thomas and Angela Strussion waited four long years, but with a recent arrest in their double homicide case it seems some answers about how and why the couple lost their lives may finally be revealed. The Belmont County community was stunned on Sept. 21, 2021, when the ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine spoke in his annual State of the State address about giving Buckeye State residents “the tools to live up to their full potential.” Though there are plenty of challenges, volatility and uncertainty that make it less clear how those goals will be attained, DeWine was ...

CHEERS to news that WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital will partner with Bridgeport Exempted Village School District to bring a health clinic to it to the schools’ new facility, the “Bridge.” JEERS to East Ohio Regional Hospital’s failure to pay employees for several days after their usual ...