Last year, Merriam-Webster named “slop” its Word of the year to describe the AI-generated digital junk swamping social media. As defined by experts, AI Slop is a pejorative term for “digital content m...

John Donne’s Meditation XVII, best known for the line “for whom the bell tolls,” argues that no person stands apart from the rest of humanity. What happens to one part of the whole eventually reaches ...

It’s that time of year again, when we find ourselves making the journey home or to the houses of loved ones to gather for The Great Feast. Thanksgiving. Some of those ones are harder to love than ot...

It was the mid nineties, and I was a college sophomore. One of the courses that was part of my General Education requirement that year examined writings and beliefs from different cultures. One day i...

As food prices climb and government programs face uncertainty, local communities are stepping up to care for one another. Across Scioto County, neighbors are filling crucial gaps through no-barrier pa...

From Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Each year on the second Monday of October, Americans have traditionally celebrated Columbus Day, honoring the 15th-century explorer. In recent years, howe...

A backyard garden might not look like much. A few raised beds. Some herbs on a porch. Maybe tomatoes clinging to wire cages that sag a little in the heat. But these small patches of green matter a lot...

We’ve all been in those conversations — tense, loaded, and fragile. Maybe it’s with a friend, a relative, a stranger in a meeting, or someone online. The topic is real: safety, addiction, fairness, ac...

On June 14th, nearly 400 people gathered at Tracy Park in Portsmouth, Ohio, to take a united stand for democracy at the No King Protest. Led by Scioto Peace and Justice and the Scioto County Democrati...

“For those who come after.” These four words echo throughout Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the popular role-playing video game released this past April. At first glance, it’s a thrilling tale of a brav...

As someone who grew up in Southern Ohio, the tales of Appalachian labor history were all around. Learning about the miners who risked their livelihood as well as their very lives to win the right to ...

Protest is as American as apple pie; our country was built on it—literally! From the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and more recently the Women’s March in 2017 an...

On March 27 of 2025 the Scioto County Democratic voted unanimously to endorse therenewal levy for the Board of Developmental Disabilities. This renewal levy does not represent a tax increase; it simpl...

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

A bill just introduced in the Ohio Senate would create partisan elections for candidates in State Board of Education and local school district board of education races.

The Scioto County Democratic Party is deeply concerned and outraged by the recent indictments against the former Director of Economic Development. These charges—including theft in office, bribery, evi...

DOGE has helped to close 10 Social Security offices so far, potentially impacting beneficiaries' access to essential services.

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

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One of the most concerning legacies of this era has been the growing fusion of political governance with Christian nationalist ideology.  This troubling trend (to put it lightly), marked by the Trump ...