“Rather than relying heavily on project-specific tax incentives, the report argues Findlay should first examine whether broader issues—such as workforce availability, infrastructure, or other competitive factors—are limiting investment.”
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State Auditor Keith Faber has flagged 2 key financial health indicators.

Findlay midyear financial review highlights areas that need to change.

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Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals expired Monday. More than 300,000 people nationwide. Roughly 14,000 here in Ohio, most in and around Springfield. ICE enforcement operations are planned possibly this week.

Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) on CBS yesterday: "It's a mistake. It's not good for the United States, and it's not good for the state of Ohio."

His exact words: "A blow to Springfield and a blow to the state of Ohio."

I want to take his argument seriously — because that's exactly when it comes apart.

His case is not that these folks have a legal right to stay. Temporary Protected Status is temporary. It says so in the name, and the Supreme Court just upheld ending it. His case is that Springfield's employers needed them, that there were jobs not being filled by other people.

So ask the question the governor didn't ask: why weren't those jobs being filled?

Springfield had about 13,000 manufacturing jobs in 2000. By 2024, roughly 7,000. Those jobs didn't vanish because Springfield ran out of people. Clark County still has people. What happened is what happened in a thousand towns from Ohio to Michigan to the Carolinas. The wage on those jobs stopped being a wage a man could raise a family on.

When a Republican governor's case for an immigration policy is that employers can't find takers at the price they want to pay — that is an argument about wages. And he's making it from the employer's side of the table against the people who live there.

If the jobs pay enough, they get filled. That's not a theory. That's a labor market.

Nobody in either party wants that conversation because the people writing the checks to both parties like the arrangement exactly as it is.

What do you think — is DeWine right, or is he missing the bigger picture?

The Real Anthony Fauci became the #1 non-fiction hardcover bestseller despite being the most censored book of the decade. Bookstores, including national chains, refused to carry it. Libraries refused to carry it. Every major newspaper declined to review it. The New York Times refused to publish a paid advertisement for the book and made it #7 on its bestseller list, even though it outsold any other book by thousands of copies.

YouTube took down videos of a book signing. Amazon shadow banned it. Twitter wouldn’t let the publisher promote it.

Despite all of that, 1.4 million Americans bought the book because they were tired of the lies and they wanted their freedom back.

Then today, with hundreds of millions of Americans demanding the truth, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at his Senate hearing. The American people waited six years for answers. Today, they got silence. But that silence told us all we needed to know.

Thank you, Senator Rand Paul, for your relentless pursuit of truth, transparency, and accountability. 🇺🇸