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Every editorial post published on Stark Civic Monitor, oldest posts included - past posts stay open for comment, not just today's.

10-25-2026
When 110 People Show Up to Talk About Zoning
10-24-2026
The Tax Break Nobody Saw Coming
10-23-2026
Someone Had to Say It: Perry Township Drew a Line on Noise
10-22-2026
Canton's Got Three Tax Deals and a Data Center Code Rewrite on the Board
10-21-2026
The Zoning Code is Getting Rewritten, and I Had to Hunt Down What Actually Changed
10-20-2026
The Water Plan Nobody Asked For (Yet)
10-19-2026
The Canton Water Department's New Cargo Van, and Why I'm Still Learning to Read These Things
10-18-2026
Massillon's Got a New Incentive District, And I Had to Hunt for the Details
10-17-2026
Canton's Got 31 Acres and Somebody Wants to Bid On It
10-16-2026
Massillon's Got a New Incentive District, and I Missed It While Looking for Something Else
10-15-2026
When City Council Votes on Thirty-One Acres
10-14-2026
What the Developer Says About Power
10-13-2026
The Electricity Question Nobody's Asked Yet
10-12-2026
What Project Shelby Actually Is (And What Nobody Knows Yet)
10-11-2026
They're Hiring
10-10-2026
"Environmentally Clean" - And What That Actually Means
10-09-2026
The Developer Says Construction Could Start in Six Months. Here's What That Actually Means.
10-08-2026
The Contractor's Question
10-07-2026
I Went to an Open House and Nobody Made a Presentation
10-06-2026
240 Megawatts Is a Lot of Electricity
10-05-2026
The Name Nobody Heard
10-04-2026
How Loud Is 70 Decibels, Anyway?
10-03-2026
I Found 100+ Acres and a Question About What Comes Next
10-02-2026
How 670 Construction Jobs Got Connected to a Tax Deal Nobody Explained
10-01-2026
Following the Money to Perry Township
09-30-2026
What $2.75 Million Buys You in Perry Township
09-29-2026
Three Approvals, One Abstention, and a Math Problem
09-28-2026
What the Lawsuit Is Actually Asking For
09-27-2026
What Happens When a Developer Talks to the People Writing the Rules
09-26-2026
When Public Meetings Aren't Quite Public
09-25-2026
When Someone Sues Over the Noise Rules
09-24-2026
Four Residents Sue Over Faircrest Data Center
09-23-2026
When Everyone Denies Seeing the Lawsuit
09-22-2026
Four Residents Are Suing Over the Faircrest Data Center
09-21-2026
The Vote That Closes One Door
09-20-2026
The Tax Break Just Got Real
09-19-2026
The Line They Drew
09-18-2026
Someone Has to Figure Out What Comes Next
09-17-2026
When 18 Months Means "Let Me Actually Know What I'm Talking About"
09-16-2026
One Vote Short of Unanimous
09-15-2026
Eighteen Months to Figure It Out
09-14-2026
Someone's Already Interested
09-13-2026
One Voice in the Room
09-12-2026
110 People Showed Up to Say Something
09-11-2026
The Council Voted. Now What?
09-10-2026
Forty People Showed Up to Talk About Data Centers, and Nobody Was Yelling
09-09-2026
When a Whole Room Says No
09-08-2026
Alliance Is Writing Its Data Center Rules Before Anyone Files a Permit
09-08-2026
The Tax Break Vote Nobody Saw Coming
09-07-2026
The Noise Question Nobody Asked Until Someone Did
09-06-2026
Four Residents Are Suing Over How Perry Township's Data Center Got Approved
09-05-2026
The Signatures Were Real, and the Court Said So
09-04-2026
Massillon's Incentive Districts, and Why I'm Still Learning What Those Mean
09-03-2026
Kentucky's Data Center Math Problem
09-03-2026
A City Just Asked Its People What They Think About Data Centers
09-02-2026
A Catwalk Company in Perry Township Just Added 100 Jobs. Here's Why That Matters.
09-01-2026
When the Public Comment Gets Hijacked
09-01-2026
I Read an Opinion Piece About Natural Gas and Data Centers, and Now I'm Sitting With Some Questions
08-30-2026
Springfield's Retrofit Hits $1.3 Billion, and Now I'm Seeing the Pattern
08-30-2026
What Happens When 41,000 People Decide They've Had Enough
08-29-2026
Two Different Ideas About Who Decides
08-29-2026
When a Town Says No, Developers Say See You in Court
08-29-2026
Five Hundred Billion Reasons to Keep Looking
08-29-2026
What Happens When Data Centers Show Up in Rural Ohio
08-28-2026
When the People Advancing a Project Also Own Stock in It
08-28-2026
What Happens When a Whole Township Says No
08-28-2026
So They're Actually Measuring This
08-28-2026
8 Gigawatts, 100 Miles Away, and Still My Problem
08-27-2026
What Happens When Everyone Agrees Something Needs to Change
08-27-2026
Six Companies and $18.5 Million Walk Into a Utility Bill Assistance Program
08-27-2026
When the Same Issue Shows Up in Different Places
08-27-2026
Eight Gigawatts, One Hundred Miles Away
08-26-2026
When the Next Governor Picks the Regulators, What Happens to Stark County?
08-26-2026
The Rules Aren't the Same for Everything
08-26-2026
When a Town Says No, and the Court Says Maybe
08-26-2026
When the City Decides to Replace Everything at Once
08-25-2026
When the Money Gets Tangled Up in the Rules
08-25-2026
Twenty Million Dollars' Worth of Pipes
08-25-2026
When Cities Say No, Developers Say See You in Court
08-25-2026
Perry Township's Trash Hauler Contract Is Going to Mediation
08-24-2026
Akron Figured Out Something We're Still Sorting Out
08-24-2026
Seven Thousand People Just Changed How Ohio Thinks About Data Center Water
08-24-2026
The Grid Operator Just Handed Data Centers a Problem—and It Might Land Here
08-24-2026
Someone's Hosting an Open House Tuesday
08-23-2026
Someone in Springfield Just Built a $1.3 Billion Piece of the Infrastructure You Use Every Day
08-23-2026
A $10.7 Billion Question About Who Owns the Power
08-23-2026
Rural Ohio Is Getting the Data Center Question Too
08-23-2026
What Happens When a National Campaign Notices Your County
08-22-2026
I Lost Twenty Minutes to a Zoning Code I Can't Actually Read Yet
08-22-2026
What Happens When a City Votes on Money It Doesn't Have
08-22-2026
I Lost an Hour to a PDF Called "_05042026-1079"
08-22-2026
Tax Abatement, Zoning Changes, and the Stuff That Slips Past While You're Reading Something Else
08-21-2026
Finding Out What Happens When Someone Leaves
08-21-2026
North Canton Just Drew a Line Around Data Centers
08-21-2026
What the Developer Says About Power
08-21-2026
The Electricity Question Nobody's Answered Yet
08-20-2026
What Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud About Project Shelby
08-20-2026
They're Looking for People to Build It
08-20-2026
The Developer Says It's Clean. That's Not the Same as Knowing.
08-20-2026
The Developer's Timeline for Project Shelby
08-19-2026
How Long Does 2.5 Years Actually Mean?
08-19-2026
What Happens When You Actually Show Up
08-19-2026
When the Algae Problem Gets Expensive
08-18-2026
How North Canton Quietly Started Shopping for Cheaper Gas
08-18-2026
How North Canton Plans to Buy Natural Gas Like a Bulk Warehouse Club
08-18-2026
North Canton's Got a Deadline Problem
08-18-2026
A $3.65 Million Road, a Bunch of Contracts, and Why I'm Still Learning to Read Government PDFs
08-17-2026
The County's IT Building Needs Work, And That Means Sealed Bids
08-17-2026
The County's Got a Lot on Its Plate
08-17-2026
Lake Township Gets New Pipes, And I Found Out By Reading A PDF Named Like It Was Drafted In A Panic
08-17-2026
Someone's Gotta Run the Roads
08-16-2026
What Happens When You Try to Read a County Minutes PDF at 12:14 PM
08-16-2026
Twenty Million Dollars' Worth of Water Lines, and Nobody Knows Where They're Going Yet
08-16-2026
There's a Tax Abatement on the Agenda, and I'm Still Not Sure What I'm Looking At
08-10-2026
I Accidentally Built a Career in the Middle of the Data Center Debate
08-08-2026
Stark County Commissioners Seeking Electrical Design Firms for Two Building Projects
08-07-2026
When the Referee Has Skin in the Game
08-06-2026
A Statewide Framework Takes Shape: Ohio Bill 983 and What It Means for Data Center Development