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  • Report: U.S. debt crisis will directly harm families, students, retirees

    As the national debt reaches $40 trillion, economists warn that skyrocketing deficits will distinctly impact Americans of all generations, including students, families and retirees.
  • The Karly Rain Wood Act
    We can do more to stop violent crime. We are letting these repeat violent offenders freely roam our streets. If a repeat violent offender is released into a community, the public deserves to know.  
  • How GOP can pull off upset in Minnesota
    When the smoke cleared on August 11, it was Lisa Demuth, not Lindell, walking away as the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor. She beat Lindell by more than 40,000 votes and 11 points.
  • A call to power: Islamic leaders see ballot box as path to paradise
    Some critics say this iteration of the immigrant story offers a distinct challenge. A number of leading Muslim candidates for office, for example, are so opposed to America’s longtime ally Israel that their rhetoric veers into antisemitism. And some, such as the Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, are being supported with campaign funds linked to Hamas front groups.
  • LaRose urges Ohio voters to be informed on Issue 3
    “Transparency matters, and Ohio voters deserve to have all of the facts before deciding whether a photo ID requirement for voting should be included in the Ohio Constitution,” said Secretary LaRose. 
  • Data centers: The factories of the intelligence age
    Our rivals, with China first among them, understand the stakes. If we fail to build here, they gain the advantage. And just as the race accelerates, organized opposition to data center construction is spreading, and not all of it is homegrown.
  • A sermon on Matthew 16:13-20; Who do you say I am?
    God offers these consoling words for those who carry a heavy cross. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27.)
  • Teaching the most pro-American nation to hate America
    To the opposition-minded reader I want to say one thing directly: you are being attacked from three directions — Ivanishvili, Russia, and the ecosystem that breathes hatred of Trump and whose instructions part of your leadership trusts blindly. For such leaders the political lexicon has an old term: "useful idiots." Wake up — or you will pay the bill again.
  • Thunder and Lightning
    We call him Lightning. As far as I know, everyone always has. He is my brother-in-law. He is a big man, standing 6'5" tall. 
  • Dear Mr. President
    I have watched you, Mr. President, and you have been very effective about improving the looks of our country. Without any new laws, I think you could develop a rivalry between the railroads that would cause them to clean up these messes.
  • How Hamas’ attack on Israel is transforming American politics
    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Democrats’ U.S. Senate primary in Michigan last Tuesday was the latest sign of an emerging kingmaker in U.S. politics – a little-known super PAC that has tapped the wealth of a new cadre of Muslim-American mega-donors to support far-left candidates.
  • County Court Judge Judkins speaks out against proposed court closure
    As the sitting Judge of the Highland County Court, I am issuing this statement to express my strong opposition to any proposal to close the Highland County Court location in Greenfield.
  • Navigating the obscene, but not illegal, in modern politics
    We don’t need partisan outrage; we need a sober realization that the rules of the game are currently written to permit the exact behavior that destroys public faith in the process.
  • The future of the Madison Township County Court – a story worth telling
    Closing Highland County Court, Madison Township Division would shift real costs onto Greenfield in police overtime and lost patrol time (our department files roughly 80 percent of the charges here), onto the sheriff in added deputies for transport and service, and back onto county taxpayers through more failures to appear, warrants, and jail days for people who simply can't make a 34-mile round trip to Hillsboro.
  • Progressive wave hits wall as Crowley upsets Hong in Wisconsin
    Democratic socialists’ much-anticipated iron-clad grip on the party in Wisconsin dissolved into thin air Tuesday night when David Crowley pulled off a stunning upset, defeating Francesca Hong for the Democratic nomination for governor.
  • Ohio has more history than it did in 1974; Ohio Village will, too
    Since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated with history, poring for hours over a collection of front pages of The Columbus Dispatch that my mom bought me at the state fair, or a reprint of a 1903 Sears catalogue she got… somewhere, or yellowing hardbound editions of American Heritage magazine. But the fascination also goes back to something more tangible — and to a place only yards away from the fairgrounds. To the grounds of the brutalist Ohio History Center that went up in 1970. 
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