Recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter grew up close to the land, hunting, fishing, and farming his family’s ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. [email protected]. Jimmy Carter’s sainthood papers must be on their way to Rome.

Jimmy Carter (and his corporate-lawyer appointees) did nothing to slow, let alone halt, the economic decline of what once was Ohio’s industrial heartland, its Youngstown-Warren region.

There is something wonderful about seeing the feel-good rewards of giving your time, efforts and skills to a worthy cause.

Ohio, a Republican-leaning state that voted for Richard Nixon three times and for Ronald Reagan twice, cast its electoral vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. Yet four years later, Carter lost Ohio by ...