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Small businesses play a vital role in economic life throughout the Miami Valley. From Dayton’s urban neighborhoods to Springfield’s service sector employers and Hamilton’s Main Street storefronts, locally owned businesses help define and in many ways fund the character of each community. These businesses create jobs, circulate money locally, and give downtowns a reason to exist and sponsor local little league teams. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), s

The American Dream and homeownership have been linked for generations. From Eaton to Xenia, Springboro to Troy, each surrounding community and county, families are laying down roots, raising children and investing in places they have known for generations. Recent years have seen homeowners and commercial property owners facing a new, growing reality: growing property taxes that are uncoupled from their ability to pay. All someone has to do is go online to your Auditor’s Websi

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

Every election season, the same scenario plays out across Ohio: school districts put levies on the ballot, and taxpayers are told to vote yes or risk “losing our schools.” For residents across the Miami Valley, I have to ask: are repeated levies really the solution, or just a band-aid for a broken system? As someone who has watched local politics and public policy closely for decades, I promise you: relying on levies to fund schools has become the default, not the exception.

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

It's a short-term pitfall to endure much larger gains.

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...

The U.S. must embrace AI if it wants to stay ahead of other countries and be competitive with jobs and manufacturing.

Efforts to enforce illegal immigrant deportations are not steeped in racism: It is about getting people to recognize U.S. law and order.