Previously, TOR's Tom Hach chronicled his trip to Japan, providing a day-by-day account of the culture and sights of an American abroad. The previous chapters can be found here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Friday, December 27: Nara via Hiroshima I felt a little ill the evening
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FINDLAY - The city of Findlay is the latest to be struck with a slew of flyers, seemingly strewn through the I-75, that have hit areas from Bowling Green and Perrysburg. The flyers appear to be recruitment literature for a Kentucky branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The flyers began
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BY TIM STECHSCHULTE STATEWIDE - This While the 2024 election may have been a conservative victory, there are still looming concerns over the issue of election integrity, specifically pertaining to electronic voting machines. Some have argued that the federal government's increasing control over state elections through the adoption
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STATEWIDE - Under direct guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published an update this evening stating that the extension for Temporary Protective Status for Haitian migrants has been ended. Previously, the Biden administration had put an 18 month extension on the TPS,
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STATEWIDE - In a “Dear Colleague” letter submitted last Friday, the executive branch is given Ohio public schools and universities until the end of the month to remove DEI initiatives for items such as school admission or risk losing federal funding. In the letter, Craig Trainor, Acting Assistant Secretary for
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BY NICK ROGERS STATEWIDE - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has partnered with middle/high school teachers around the country participating in its Science Ambassador Program to create a new curriculum focused on viral outbreaks and disease prevention. The interactive classroom material, dubbed “Operation Outbreak,” is supplemented
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SPRINGFIELD - The February 11 Commissioners meeting erupted in fury after a slew of frustrated and irate public comments set off several members of the Commission, including Krystal Brown, who decreed she would not be seeking re-election due to the ‘vileness’ residents of Springfield. Like the calm before the storm,
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BY MATT URBAS STATEWIDE - JobsOhio, which is in the 12th year of a 25-year exclusive agreement to use the profits from liquor sales in Ohio for "economic development" lobbied for and got the ability to tack on an additional 15 years to that deal in last term&
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BY NICK ROGERS STATEWIDE - In April 2024, TOR’s own Nick Rogers sat down for an interview with Local technology expert Vince Welage, who has been investigating the root causes for anomalies in smart meter technology sweeping the state which has resulted in high energy bills. Today, Welage is
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BY MATT URBAS Article Originally published here STATEWIDE - JobsOhio is a private nonprofit corporation that came into existence during the Kasich administration 2011. Most states have a department that works on "economic development", using state funds to do perform various functions under that nebulous term. Typically these
BY TOM HACH We got up earlier than usual, and went to the Samurai Ninja Museum, which Grove had discovered online the night before. Our 20-something museum guide was great and was actually an exchange student in North Carolina, so his English was terrific! To understand the samurai, he gave
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This article was originally published on The Heartland Beat SPRINGFIELD - As the Trump administration and The Department of Government Efficiency continue to make headlines after the seismic dismantling of USAID and continued reports of deportations, others are pointing out that the federal government's long standing history of