Brent Larkin

Pleasing Donald Trump should never mean more than seeking justice for Epstein’s victims. Anyone who fails that test is undeserving of being Ohio’s next governor, writes Brent Larkin of GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in his column today.

For Ohio's Democrats, 40 years of losing has become addictive, columnist Brent Larkin writes. The state's lean toward center-right is not a new trend, but a decades-old pattern.

In their ruthless quest to cut taxes for the wealthy, Ohio’s Republican lawmakers have slashed vital services for children—knowingly passing a budget that could lead to 200 more infant deaths each year, writes columnist Brent Larkin.

Carl Stokes was not one to groom successors. But he cleared a trail for countless others to travel, taking a first step down that path in the summer of 1965, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.

Cleveland deserves better than the Browns' state-funded abandonment of downtown. If the long lens of history views this as a defining moment, it will not be kind to those who allowed it to happen, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.

Brent Larkin argues that the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s support for the Haslams’ suburban stadium plan is a profound betrayal of Cleveland’s legacy of public-private unity, prompting a justified and forceful rebuke from city and county leaders determined to protect downtown’s future.

This is about more than a football stadium. It’s about the future of a city and its downtown. It’s about not risking a city being sacrificed on the altar of private profit, writes Brent Larkin in his column today about the Haslams' push to move the Browns to Brook Park.

To Ohio’s conscience-free elected officials in Columbus putting their thumbs on the scales in this rotten business of moving the Browns out of Cleveland, it's clear that, whatever a generous supporter wants, that generous supporter gets. Even if what taxpayers get is the shaft, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.

Americans are forced to watch in horror as a man incapable of telling the truth auditions for the role of a tinhorn dictator whose only real loyalty is to his pal in the Kremlin, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.

Leading from behind has become Greater Cleveland’s specialty. Obsessing over the Browns and ignoring other needs isn’t a symptom of why we’re failing. It’s the reason, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.