Warren County

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

It is Monday, so we're here with editor-at-large, Bill Kristol, who did not spend the weekend at a mental health facility in Warren County, Ohio, as far as I know.

Well, you never know, Tim.

I, I, I like...

And it's absolutely tragic.

In Warren County, there's exactly one place those families can turn.

Linda Rabel of Family Promise of Warren County joins the show on how they help get families back to housing and stable living and how you can help a function coming up next week called Tailgate for Home.

And Linda's on the show this morning to talk about it on 700-WWW.

How are you?

That's absolutely true.

That's absolutely true.

In Warren County, we started Family Promise of Warren County almost 30 years ago as a community response to homelessness.

April Corcoran was born on April 4th, 1984, and she lived in Pleasant Plain, located in Warren County, Ohio.

She was addicted to heroin and was living in a tent behind-

Fall never arrives all at once.

Defense attorney James Bogan said April's family told him that before she was a heroin addict, she was a very loving and attentive mother.

On the day of the indictment, April was in the Hamilton County Justice Center with bond set at $50,000.

According to the Warren County prosecutor, April had never been charged with a felony before.

At her arraignment, her attorney asked for a lower bond, saying she had no criminal history and had been trying to get into drug treatment when she was arrested.

Judge Leslie Giz went the other way.

And then we have to go to them with a levy campaign and say, "Well, I know we asked for money last year and the year before that and the year before that, but we need a little bit more." And again, when schools like Mason are starting to struggle, it only gets worse.

Um, Franklin, for example, is not in my district, but it's in Warren County.

They are struggling, and the average public school does not know what their five-year outlook looks like because they are constantly just thinking, like, of worst-case scenarios, of we don't know what-- how much money we're gonna have two years, three years, four years from now.

So we're just gonna do the best that we can with what we have and just save and conserve.

Yeah, and this is a project we will definitely keep our eyes on as it, uh, pr- moves forward.

Now, Steve, the region has been on what I can only call a win streak as of late when it comes to large economic development projects, and this week has been no different, as Warren County landed a massive investment from Walmart.

Really impressive.

Uh, Walmart's investing, um, $300 million in a fulfillment center.

That's one of the complaints about them, is they, they don't really create a ton of jobs.

There's a lot of capital expenditure up front, but the job creation number is typically on the smaller side.

Walmart, which is planning to occupy a roughly 1.2 million square foot building on Encore Drive in Warren County's Turtle Creek Township, uh, they're expecting to create 315 full-time equivalent jobs by the end of 2029.

That is a lot of jobs generating just under, you know, $19.5 million in new annual payroll.

So activism really is at the county level.

So reach out to the Hamilton County Republican Party, Butler County, Warren County, Clermont County, wherever you are.

And if you're in Northern Kentucky, come on over and help us too.

So [laughs] you know-

do have real consequences for states like Ohio, and it'd be great if we had no sanctuary jurisdictions within our own state, but we do.

And I think that's why it's so important, you know, is when Warren County, with Secretary Mullen's Homeland Security, did this 287G program.

Butler County, Warren County, they do it, but Hamilton County doesn't.

And all this says is, hey, when you find people who aren't here lawfully present, we're going to help ICE come and bring them in.

And you already have them in custody, so it's far less dangerous to the public, less dangerous to the officers and everything else.

Don't know that one either.

Well, the category says here's cryptid, and this is in Warren County, Ohio.

This one goes way back.

In May of 1882, two boys, Joe and Ed Lynch, reportedly near... sadder thwaites run in the crosswick area and they encountered something that sounds like it came straight out of a 19th century monster story the boys report reportedly saw a large snake-like lizard type creature and this wasn't just a quick glimpse according to the story the creature actually grabbed ed and began dragging him toward a hollow tree

ONN's Jared Allen reports.

A tornado warning for Butler County and Warren County kept people on alert across Cincinnati's northern suburbs and the Dayton area Sunday night.

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Clinton, Green, Montgomery, and Warren counties just before 9 o'clock.

Radar was indicating winds exceeding 75 miles per hour from that storm.