Commentary

Ohio plans to give $3.5 million to rehabilitate and reopen a second runway at the Wilmington Air Park. WYSO aviation commentator Dan Patterson recounts that there is historic precedent for that.

The resounding defeat of Issue 1 by Ohio voters should send a message to the Ohio Republican Party.

The fate of the abortion rights amendment in Ohio is inextricably linked to the results that will come out this coming Tuesday.

Recently it was reported that the remains of a WWII airman from Dayton, Ohio had been identified. First Lt. Howard L.Dixon, was a member of the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. He had been on one of the most storied missions of the war, Operation Tidal Wave — flown on August 1st, 1943. WYSO’s aviation commentator Dan Patterson has some thoughts.

Turnout is likely to be low in Ohio's August 8 special election. So why are Ohioans being asked to decide this now?

The Republican supermajority in the Ohio General Assembly apparently wants to control every aspect of life in the state.

Nearly 10 months before the March 2024, Sen. J.D. Vance has endorsed wealthy Cleveland car dealer Bernie Moreno for Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate nomination.

Proponents of Senate Bill 83, which is likely to become law, say it is intended to eliminate "liberal bias" in Ohio's college and universities. But opponents say it could end up driving away students and faculty by putting politicians in control.

Ohio Republicans got their wish Wednesday — a special election in August to vote on a plan to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments to 60%. But the hard part will be convincing Ohioans to vote for it.

The way Republican candidates for the 2024 Senate nomination deal with the omnipresent specter of Donald Trump runs the gamut from total avoidance to full embrace.

During the State of the Union address, President Biden help up Ohio as a beacon of hope fir a resurgence in American manufacturing because of Intel's announcement that it will invent at least $20 billion in a new facility east of Columbus to make microchips. Aviation commentator Dan Patterson has a historical perspective on this news.

NASA let us know, after Perseverance had landed on Mars, that a small piece of fabric from the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer has made the journey too -- and is attached to a small helicopter which is going to fly over the Martian surface maybe as soon as this weekend. Aviation commentator Dan Patterson has some thoughts.