Ohio's seven-member Supreme Court had been an exclusively Republican club until Gov. Ted Strickland appointed Chief Justice Eric Brown last April. Now the Chief Justice is joined by Appellate Judge Mary Jane Trapp as excellent Democratic candidates running this year, opposed by two GOP Justices with expiring terms,...

Imagine this -- it's a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. You are on the way to church, a football game or an afternoon with the kids at the park. You are driving the speed limit when suddenly you hear sirens. You check the rearview mirror. "It can't be me," you think...

Although judicial elections tend to attract far less notice than top-of-the-ticket races, the scandalous "justice for sale" financing of Republican candidates to Ohio's top court cries out for attention. The Democratic party is fielding two excellent candidates, Chief Justice Eric Brown and Appellate Judge Mary Jane Trapp, but...

Ohio's been written about as one of the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis  - from the Wall Street Journal to USA Today and the New York Times.  The housing crisis affecting Ohio families is not about numbers, it's about families who have caught...

It's easy to recall the Rove-instigated hooliganism that generated tactically-advantageous chaos in the wake of Florida's flawed 2000 presidential election. What may be harder to grasp is that this year the hooliganism appears to have been advanced to the pre-election period, right here in Ohio.

It was time. I had been suffering with my old automobile for eight long years. So I went to a used car dealer.

"Can I help you?"

"Yeah, it's time for me to pick a new car," I replied.

"Oh, I see you're driving one of those GOP models."

"It's...

I have four points to make about racism and the result in Ohio's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday.

First, racism undeniably played an important role. CNN exit polling indicated that 20% of voters said the race of the candidate was important factor (undoubtedly a lower than truthful response), and...

Yikes! We've all heard how the Republicans are counting on Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee to unite their fractured party and energize their base. Bob Novak said as much in his most recent report:

Adding to the dark mood among Republicans is the increasing prospect that they will not...

A few hours ago a spokesman for Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be prevented from leading the three-day motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad set to begin tomorrow. As I post this the latest news is that the government has put Bhutto under...

Two days ago I was terminated from my engagement as a freelance blogger at the Cleveland Plain Dealer-sponsored group blog "Wide Open" after Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Bainbridge Township) of the 14th Ohio Congressional District, apparently in retaliation for my previous blogging about his re-election campaign and my financial...