Here in the much exploited, underpaid and heavily abused valley (once dubbed "Steel Valley"), our old town of Youngstown, sitting in the middle of the rust belt, watches history keep repeating itself.
As you travel through the Rust Belt, you can still come across the remains of hotels and motels still touting marketing innovations such as "Color TV" or "Air Conditioning."
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Rep. Paul Ryan's embarrassing soup kitchen photo-op last week, the organization that runs the facility tells The Huffingt...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan's awkward visit last week to a Youngstown, Ohio, soup kitchen made national headlines and has been the butt of late-night...
As autumn sets in to the Rust Belt, I'm always reminded of the lines written by James Wright, a poet, who was raised around the factories in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Yes, many of the mills are long gone, but the ritual is largely the same.
Actor Christian Bale proved once again that he doesn't just play a superhero on film. To little Jayden Barber, the star of "The Dark Knight Rises" is ...
The old shot and beer joints were a mainstay in nearly all the Rust Belt mill towns. These places were the yang to the factories' yin and a big part of many a mill worker's daily routine.
Mitt Romney told a crowd of Ohioans at a manufacturing company Thursday that President Barack Obama is keeping the state's oil and gas industries down...
The skeletons of a once thriving city are evident in most of the Youngstown area, and every visit leaves a sizable impression on me.
Jamail Johnson, the Youngstown State student shot to death at an off-campus fraternity party early Saturday morning, died trying to divert his peers f...
"I want you to disregard all that the opposing council has said," Congressman Jim Traficant told colleagues then sitting in judgment on the House Ethi...
The criteria are flexible. They're a combination of songwriting, listening pleasure, live performance and at what point in the song I begin to cry like an 11-year-old girl.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Renegade ex-congressman James A. Traficant Jr., who delighted in "Star Trek" references and polyester suits, is to be release...
The Youngstown Air Reserve Show is two months away... and FREE tickets are almost ready. Tickets can be ordered online at Youngstown Air Show Dot Com ...
The GOP must believe it can make inroads into Youngstown's urban community, because this month the second-biggest buy on the city's hip-hop air waves was made by the Mahoning County Republican Party.
A McCain supporter thanked me for coming out from Seattle. It was those sorts of conversations that make me realize we are not as divided as the media portrays us. I got a lot out of Ohio.
