Marion News
Tempers finally boiled over at last night’s council committee meeting. What started as a routine update quickly turned into a heated debate over the city’s disastrous switch to the ADP payroll system. The “Swamp-Fox” team at Marion Watch has been digging into this for weeks, and the findings are grim.
If the city of Marion wasn’t already having enough problems, now there’s this. Marion City Council voted 8-0 on 02/24/2025 to contract with Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the largest payroll software company in the world, to handle its payroll processing. ADP, as a matter of fact, is not only the
The below letter was emailed to all sitting members of Marion City Council and Mayor Collins today. Relevant articles can be found in the “Relevant Articles” section following the letter contents. To the Current Members of Marion City Council: The financial and technical stability of Marion is a structural necessity,
The United States military launched a surprise nighttime operation in Venezuela early Saturday, January 3, 2026, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The operation, which included heavy airstrikes across the capital city of Caracas, marks the most significant direct U.S. intervention in the region in decades. President
Ohio Regional
Galion, Ohio — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency entered a formal Director’s Final Findings and Orders (DFFOs) against the City of Galion in early November 2025 after the city missed a required compliance milestone tied to its NPDES permit. The DFFOs make clear that the city’s wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
For over a decade, the City of Galion has framed its utility struggles as the standard “growing pains” of aging infrastructure. However, newly available forensic data from January 2026, along with other extenssive amounts of data we have reported on, and some we have not yet reported, reveals a pattern
Heart of a mother. Backbone of a leader. I’m a mom before anything else. Like a lot of families in District 86, I worry about rising costs, government overreach, and whether hard work still matters. I didn’t come from money or connections. Everything I have was built the hard way,
We’ve got some swampy shenanigans orchestrated by some sour socialists going on in the race for the State Rep of the 86th District, folks–and the Swamp Fox ain’t having it! Wezlynn Davis, a conservative candidate in this year’s Republican primary, previously challenged incumbent Tracy Richardson, who currently holds the seat
National & International
The highly anticipated and politically charged release of thousands of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by the House Oversight Committee presented a massive and immediate problem: accessibility. The documents, totaling over 20,000 pages of email correspondence and financial records, were released in a disorganized mass
On the 1st of June 1979, 17-year-old Catherine Louise Conley went missing. Around 8:45 pm that evening, the resident of 217 Windsor Street departed her family home and walked to the Kroger grocery store formerly located on S Main Street near the intersection with Columbia Street, in order to purchase
22 members of the Derby City Pipeline Gun, Drug Ring Arrested.
From Marion, Ohio, this report examines the overdose crisis, a public health catastrophe that has engulfed a nation.