One of the benefits of laboring as a  political writer for many  decades is that you learn a lot of  new words, courtesy of the genius class. It’s a perfect fit for a logophile, which I believe is a lover of words.  I have happily acquired a working knowledge of such verbiage as gravitas (no, not a shortstop on  the Los Angeles Angels!),  death panel, freedom fries and grizzly mom.

Just got a new one, a common everyday word that I have long assigned to another meaning:  grassroots.  It’s posted on the latest Ohio Republican Party release below the […]

As we’ve documented many times before, law enforcement agencies around the state have been forced to make drastic cuts in order to keep up with the over $1 Billion Kasich’s budgets have stolen from the local government fund.    Last week Mike DeWine publicly recognized this fact in front of a room full of cops.

Speaking at the national FOP conference in Cincinnati, DeWine told attendees:  “I think if you talk about the state of law enforcement, it is strained in this state.   There are probably fewer people in most departments than were there 5 years ago.”

According […]