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BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - The Board of Clark County Commissioners faced a wave of public skepticism and direct pushback from area residents during a tense, heavily attended listening session held yesterday evening. The public forum, intended to detail the preliminary site plan for a new, $125.7 million county jail
Findlay
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - While the public is already aware that Mayor Christina Muryn abruptly called off an August 12 virtual briefing with New Albany tech officials, newly released public records reveal the gathering was far more expansive—and structurally coordinated—than the administration previously let on. The documents obtained
Findlay
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Like many municipalities across the state, citizens flooded the Findlay city council meeting during yesterday's regular session, as local lawmakers and citizens confronted Mayor Christina Muryn over a canceled "closed-door" data center briefing. The dispute exposed fractures regarding transparency and public
Election
BY DIANE BOGUSKI I attended a town hall meeting Saturday, August 15, 2026, hosted by Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in Columbus, Ohio. The main topic: DATA CENTERS. As I sat there listening to story after story, and there were many of them, of folks affected by the sudden onslaught
Findlay
FINDLAY- A scheduled closed-door meeting between city officials and representatives from New Albany has been canceled following pressure from local lawmakers demanding public transparency over a controversial proposed data center project. While the meeting cancellation was confirmed via a statement from Mayor Christina Muryn, conversations with members of council
Local
CHESTERLAND — Geauga County Prosecutor Jim Flaiz defended a controversial $380,000 renovation of his administrative offices during a local Rotary Club meeting this week, framing the high-grade ballistic upgrades as an absolute necessity to protect staff from potential targeted violence. However, Flaiz’s own presentation has drawn fresh scrutiny
Findlay
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Findlay Mayor Christina Muryn abruptly canceled a scheduled briefing between City Council members and planners from New Albany, Ohio, following mounting public blowback over government transparency. The meeting was intended to address Data Center Development and zoning strategies as northwest Ohio towns look to restrict tech
Local
BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - In a tense, emotionally charged session that exposed deep fractures between local officials and the community they govern, the Springfield City Commission moved forward with expanding electronic surveillance on its residents while remaining tightly closed-mouthed regarding a state-level criminal investigation into its top administrative
Geauga County
BY JEFF SKINNER CHARDON - The Geauga County Board of Commissioners flatly rejected an aggressive salary restructuring proposal from the county treasurer’s office during a contentious meeting, exposing what officials characterized as a severe communication breakdown within the department. The pay dispute took center stage as commissioners voiced deep frustration
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BY JEFF SKINNER STATEWIDE - President Donald J. Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order restructuring the national childhood immunization framework, expanding upon his administration's previous efforts to reduce vaccine mandates by adding aggressive new directives aimed at splitting combination shots and punishing states with strict school-entry
BY JEFF SKINNER CHARDON - Fiscal restraint collided with the realities of retaining public employees at Tuesday’s Geauga County Commissioners meeting, as a proposed wage hike for the County Treasurer’s office sparked an intense debate over taxpayer optics and government spending. The three-member Board of Commissioners ultimately balked
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Fiscal strain, infrastructure skepticism, and intense citizen pushback dominated Tuesday’s Findlay City Council meeting, exposing growing fault lines between local residents and Mayor Christina Muryn’s administration. Despite vocal warnings from the public regarding the city’s declining financial health, council members ultimately pushed through
BY JEFF SKINNER STATEWIDE - The U.S. Selective Service System is prepping a major upgrade to its mobilization infrastructure, issuing a federal solicitation for an automated, cloud-based "Conscription Readiness Simulation" system. The new platform is designed to war-game massive, end-to-end national draft scenarios. According
TOR Editor Jeff Skinner sits down with Ohio Political News to discuss Springfield, TPS and what comes next in Clark County
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY -Tensions between rural preservation and the rapid regional expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure collided at a recent public forum. An energy company unveiled tentative plans to develop a major data center campus in neighboring Allen Township, triggering immediate pushback from residents over noise, hazardous wastewater dumping,
BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - Facing a stagnating revenue base and a looming contraction of its low-cost labor pool, the Springfield City Commission is moving aggressively to expand a corporate tax subsidy program, a move that critics warn could starve the city’s already strained emergency services. During a contentious
BY JEFF SKINNER CHARDON - A quiet push inside the Geauga County administrative chambers to fundamentally shift how the county conducts economic development has broken into the open, sparking sharp criticism over an apparent lack of public accountability, hidden planning, and a creeping alignment with powerful outside regional interests aggressively angling
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Although the city of Findlay remains financially stable today, City Auditor Jim Staschiak’s 2026 Mid-Year Review presents a clear message: several cautionary indicators suggest the city should begin addressing underlying financial and economic trends before they develop into larger fiscal challenges. The July 22
PERRY, Ohio — Internal correspondences from early 2024 seem to expose the massive financial leverage applied to local municipal decision-makers to secure political cooperation behind closed doors on the Champion Farm land deal before any public notices were issued regarding the Champion Farm data center development. On February 5, 2024,
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Facing a tight regulatory timeline under an active 12-month emergency moratorium, the Findlay Planning and Zoning Committee is scrambling to rewrite its industrial code to manage a looming wave of potential data center development. However, while local lawmakers are focused on micro-managing physical plot
BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield City Commission voted unanimously 5-0 on Tuesday night to halt all development of high-density computing infrastructure, enacting an immediate six-month temporary moratorium to study the regional strains caused by mega-data centers. The sweeping freeze blocks the establishment, processing, review, and
