Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) recently announced that he intends to use the appropriations process to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecutorial authority in order to protect the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. 

Rep. Bob Young, a Republican representing the Green area in the Ohio House, has announced his resignation following two arrests and calls from more than 30 fellow Republicans to step down.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is threatening to subpoena the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after both government entities failed to produce information related to an illegal Chinese lab operating on U.S. soil as requested.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) this week sent a letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith after launching an inquiry into Jay Bratt, one of his senior prosecutors and top aides. Bratt allegedly improperly pressured Stanley Woodward, a lawyer representing a defendant indicted by Jack Smith, by implying that the Administration would look more favorably on Mr. Woodward's candidacy for a judgeship if his client cooperated with the Office of the Special Counsel.

Crowds have enjoyed COTPC Truck Pulls and the new Tug-A-Truck event at the Highland County Fair this week.

“Suspiciously, Hunter Biden’s associate had a media statement on Burisma approved by Vice President Biden himself the same day Hunter Biden ‘called D.C.’ for help with the government pressure facing Burisma. Americans demand accountability for this abuse of government office for the benefit of the Biden family.”

Democrats objected Thursday afternoon to unanimous passage of Sen. J.D. Vance’s proposed legislation that would ban federal mask mandates through the end of 2024. Without unanimous passage, Vance’s bill must work through Senate committees before possibly being returned to the floor for a vote.

In a brief meeting Wednesday, Sept. 6, Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades discussed a new workforce development proposal and took care of routine county business.

The ninth annual Highland County Farm Tour, co-hosted by the Highland County Farm Bureau and the Highland Soil and Water Conservation District, will be held Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. in the New Petersburg area.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed two cases over congressional districts in Ohio.

Fewer parents sent children to preschool in 2021 in a decline that corresponded with the COVID-19 pandemic. The percentage of 3-to-6-year-olds enrolled in preschool in the United States dropped by 9.3 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, from 51.1% to 41.8%, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.

Hamilton Insurance Agency recently received an award in recognition of 50 years of service with The Western Reserve Group.