Government

Most Ohio voters can name the president. Many can name the governor. Some may even know their mayor. Ask who controls property tax assessments, oversees the county jail, maintains local roads or manages election operations, and most residents would draw a blank.

Election season often feels dominated by national headlines and statewide races. Meanwhile, the offices most directly affecting your day-to-day life are often ignored or unrealized. County commissioners are a huge example. The positions do not generate headlines, but they control a lot of local tax dollars, what gets built in your community and how efficiently county government operates. Roads, public safety funding, development decisions and even how aggressively local gover

Every spring during primary season, most attention goes to recognizable races like Governor, Congress, the Statehouse. Campaign ads fill the airwaves, mailers stack up in the mail and it’s easy to feel these are the only offices up for election. If you’ve ever worked your way to the bottom of a primary ballot, you’ve probably seen something less familiar: candidates for state and county central committees. It’s not surprising many voters skip those races. In most cases the na

Recently, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) dropped a 200-page organizing manual, a detailed roadmap aimed at fixing what went wrong in 2024 and winning in 2026 by building stronger local relationships. Democrats openly admit their strategy failed and are shifting how campaigns operate on the ground. In 2024, Democratic campaigns became obsessed with massive output, such as phone calls, texts, and door knocks that looked impressive on paper but didn’t translate into mea

Many have heard stories and even seen chemically modified THC “legal hemp” products being sold in gas stations, smoke shops and CBD stores in Ohio that resemble marijuana. Unfortunately, some of the consumers of the intoxicating products were underage. The main reason this occurred was due to lack of oversight and loopholes being exploited from some bad actors and creative marketing. There were examples of hemp gummies with intoxicating effects packaged marketing being identi

President Donald Trump has suggested that revenue from tariffs potentially replace income tax. He said in a Fox News interview that...

It is imperative to put tariffs in place if we want Mexico, Canada and China to help us with illegal immigration.

Protests at Tesla dealerships and service stations throughout the United States, including those here in the Dayton, Ohio region, are...