Scioto County Democratic Party

he Scioto County Democratic Party voted unanimously at its regular monthly committee meeting on Thursday, July 23, to endorse 14 candidates for federal, state, judicial and county office ahead of the November 3 general election. The endorsements cover every level of the ballot Scioto County voters will see this fall — from the top of the statewide ticket down to the county courthouse. For the first time in the party's history, the slate includes a candidate who is not a Dem

A taxi takes you door-to-door. A bus gets you close enough that you walk the rest of the way yourself. In politics, if you're holding out for the candidate who's a taxi, that being someone who lines up with you on everything, you might be standing at that curb a long time.

Somebody always asks. You're at a potluck, or somebody's back porch after a funeral, or the church basement after a wedding, and there's a dish on the table that stops people mid-conversation. A casserole, a pot roast that fell apart just right, somebody's aunt's cobbler that shows up at every single family gathering without fail. And the question that comes next isn't about anything else going on in the world. It's just: who made this, and how.