As Wheeling’s new mayor, Dennis Magruder, holds his first State of the City address today it is important to acknowledge the new mayor’s unprecedented weaknesses. This is a part of healthy governance and not an attack (which we acknowledge this administration is sensitive to). It’s not ...
Earlier this month, the Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments in a years-long case in which state Attorney General Dave Yost has been trying to avoid complying with public records requests. The Center for Media and Democracy is seeking records from a time period in which the Republican Attorneys ...
Mountain State residents have had just about enough of the rough road conditions. Cold, snow, overnight freezes and other hazardous conditions are bad enough; but we are also dealing with a perpetual cycle of potholes and road work, right? Imagine being one of the individuals whose job is go ...
The fight over whether to appoint a Republican or a Democrat to the 91st District House of Delegates seat is a fascinating one for me, a former legislative staffer who nerds out on these kinds of questions. But we will have to wait until May for the matter to be decided. I’ve had a story in ...
Technology can be a wonderful thing. It also can be horrifying, particularly when the law does not keep up with innovations. Ohio lawmakers have addressed one of those shortfalls by passing Senate Bill 100, which makes it a crime to put or install a tracking device on someone else’s property ...
The public education system in Tyler County finds itself in a state of chaos. On Tuesday, following a closed-door session of the Tyler County Board of Education to discuss Superintendent Shane Highley’s annual evaluation and a potential new contract, board members voted, 3-2, to not bring ...