As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget proposal, food banks across Ohio could see a significant reduction in state funding. Most of this is due to the loss of a one-time $7.5 million appropriation in the previous budget. That decrease has food bank organizers worried. “It’s about 3.4 ...
The story of Republican tax policy in the Trump era is the contest between pro-growth ideas and anti-growth income redistribution. An example of both was on display in President Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday. The good idea was Trump’s proposal to let companies deduct the full cost ...
Thursday marks Day 30, the halfway mark of the 60-day annual legislative session, but as I write this, I’m having trouble predicting how productive this session will be by the time we get to April 12. According to the Legislature’s website, only two bills have completed the legislative ...
Hopefully it won’t take much time for a proposed bill by the West Virginia Association of School Administrators to find a sponsor. After all, state lawmakers have become acutely, sometimes tragically, aware in recent years of the cracks in our home- and micro-school monitoring through which ...
As people of faith our biblical call is clear: Love our neighbors, especially those in need. This past Tuesday at Wheeling’s city council meeting one of our councilors, blaming service providers, threatened to close the only homeless camp that has survived last year’s otherwise sweeping ...
There is a strong argument that leaders in Wheeling have mismanaged the city’s homeless problem over the past few years. Remember the Life Hub boondoggle that was the answer to all the city’s problems for the small sum of millions of dollars? Or the city’s homeless liaison — that would ...