Shading The Lines

Ohio’s 4th Congressional District isn’t the longest in the state nor the most convoluted. Nor does it have the most disenfranchised voters. It’s near the…

Five years ago, few people in Ohio were paying close attention to the claim that political consultants – armed with partisan power, increasingly…

It was a chilly winter day in North Akron, just a few blocks from the Sand Run Metro Park. Out in a straight line, heading just 4 miles southwest from…

On election night two years ago, Catherine Turcer of Common Cause Ohio couldn’t have been more thrilled.“It’s like Christmas,” Turcer said. “I got the…

Ian Yarber, a former Oberlin school board member, considers himself a knowledgeable voter. He lives at the northeast end of Ohio’s 4th Congressional…