Howard Wilkinson

2 days ago | wvxu.org | Howard Wilkinson

Rep. Greg Landsman, the Mount Washington Democrat, is a rarity among U.S. House members on his side of the aisle, in that he immediately signed off on President Trump’s Saturday bombing of Iranian enrichment sites. “We don’t yet know what this means for the regime’s nuclear work or ambitions, but it absolutely means that the regime has been further weakened — which is good for those who want peace,” Landsman said on X immediately after the bombing raid.

1 week ago | wvxu.org | Howard Wilkinson

When Amy Acton, director of the Ohio Public Health Department at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, began running for Ohio governor in January, there was an assumption among Ohio’s political class that Acton, a newbie to the often-brutal world of politics, wouldn’t last long. An unwarranted assumption, as it turns out. Acton’s candidacy for the 2026 Democratic gubernatorial nomination is alive and well. And, to the surprise of many, she still has the field on the Democratic side to herself.

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Howard Wilkinson

The Ohio Democratic Party has been wandering in the wilderness of Ohio politics for a generation now. As grim as it has been, Ohio Democrats may have found a way out. "May have" being the operative words.

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Howard Wilkinson

After 165 years as a hospital, UC Health plans to close the doors of the Daniel Drake Center on W. Galbraith Road in Hartwell for good on Sept. 30. What no one can ever close the doors on entirely is the story of Donald Harvey, a nurse’s aide in the 1980s at what was then known as the Drake Hospital, back when it was owned and operated by Hamilton County, long before UC Health was involved.

3 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Howard Wilkinson

Given the tragedies that have taken place in American cities recently, many Jewish Americans feel as if they are walking around with targets on their backs. American Jews have been the target of abuse, intimidation and, in some cases, deadly violence because of a war thousands of miles away — a war many American Jews who, while they support the right of Israel to exist, oppose the way the war in Gaza is being pursued by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.