Geauga County Commissioners
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
Findlay
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
Selective Service
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
Ohio Political News
TOR Editor Jeff Skinner sits down with Ohio Political News to discuss Springfield, TPS and what comes next in Clark County
Findlay
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,
Springfield
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
Geauga County Commissioners
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
Findlay
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 Township
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,
Findlay
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
Local
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
Op-ed
BY DAKOTA SAWYER When Larry Householder was sentenced to twenty years for the House Bill 6 scheme, Ohioans got the story they thought they understood. A Speaker of the House took $60 million funneled through a dark money nonprofit, rammed a billion-dollar nuclear bailout through the legislature, and went