August 8, 2019
CityLab, Andrew Small, August 7, 2019- Dropping in: President Trump is visiting Dayton and El Paso today after the mass shootings in those cities. As with so many things related to this administration, these presidential appearances in sites of tragedy are unusually fraught. Trump’s arrival in the Ohio city on Wednesday …
June 27, 2019
The Athens News, Cole Behrens, June 27, 2019- Athens City Council voted unanimously Monday to reaffirm the city’s right to home rule in opposition to Ohio House Bill 242, a law that would preempt cities and other municipalities in Ohio’s authority to ban or tax single-use plastics. If passed in …
December 11, 2018
The Columbus Dispatch, Editorial, December 10, 2018- If only Ohio lawmakers were as interested in addressing the state’s many challenges as they are in interfering with local communities’ efforts to solve their own problems, the Statehouse might not be the bastion of backwardness it has become under all-Republican rule. Now …
December 10, 2018
The State, Julie Carr Smyth, December 8, 2018- A brewing standoff between legislative Republicans in Ohio and their same-party governor over some big-ticket policy issues was averted — perhaps permanently — during a whirlwind week at the Statehouse. Proposals restricting early abortions and a gun owner’s “duty to retreat” that …
September 27, 2018
WKBN News, Amanda Smith, September 25, 2018- Local leaders are still lobbying the state to have more control over fracking brine disposal wells. Hubbard township officials are bitterly opposed to a plan to bring a waste brine disposal well to the township. Brine from Pennsylvania operations would be transported to an area …