With our children back in school and fall sports ramping up all across the state, the promise of new beginnings is in the air. Our community and our nation are surrounded by innovative advances in technology that are reshaping the way we build, grow, operate and access the world around us. As my tours of our community confirm, some of the most powerful innovations in aeronautics, medical research,... Read more »
Over the past year, the United States has heard a constant drumbeat of concerns from the intelligence community, science agencies, the White House and members of Congress about the security of research and technology on America’s college and university campuses. These concerns relate to potential nefarious acts by foreign parties, including the theft of intellectual property; talent-recruitment pr... Read more »
America is facing an unprecedented skilled labor shortage. According to the Department of Labor, the US economy had 7.6 million unfilled jobs, but only 6.5 million people were looking for work as of January 2019 and it is more apparent than ever that our country is suffering because of it. ... Aside from federal infrastructure spending, projected job growth in many building trades continues to be ... Read more »
Running his own routes in Jerusalem and D.C., NFL-player-turned Congressman Anthony Gonzalez says parties must work together. Thirty-four members of the 116th Congress previously served as mayors, 161 hold law degrees and 78 have served in the military. Only two are former NFL players. And one of those is Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a 34-year-old freshman Republican lawmaker from Ohio. ... “When I left... Read more »
City Hall was standing room only earlier this month when the community’s Congressional representative paid a visit with a fellow member of Congress. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) and Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) conducted a bipartisan town hall meeting at Wadsworth City Hall Aug. 1 in an effort to show that it is possible to reach across the aisle. “There are reasonable people on both sides of the... Read more »
For U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a nameless Honduran infant who showed up at a U.S. border crossing in McAllen, Texas this month without his parents epitomizes a national immigration crisis caused by well-intentioned policies that aren’t working out as planned. ... “If you think about that baby, there’s really only a handful of potential starting points,” says Gonzalez, who has an infant son of his... Read more »
They played on rival teams in the National Football League. They’re members of rival political parties in the U.S. House of Representatives. But freshman Congress members Anthony Gonzalez and Colin Allred are hoping their sports background can help them bridge the partisan divide and find common ground on matters like veterans issues, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and securing help for p... Read more »
I grew up in Northeast Ohio the son of a steel manufacturer. As a kid, I watched my dad put in the hard work every day to build on the opportunity my grandparents gave him when they fled communist Cuba to seek the promise of capitalism and the American Dream. My dad grew his business from the ground up, going from five employees and only enough cash on hand to last three months, to a successful en... Read more »
As a wave of new freshmen has entered Congress, a bipartisan group of lawmakers hopes to reduce political infighting and advance across-the-aisle agendas with the help of a record-breaking number of young legislators. The Congressional Future Caucus, a bipartisan group of millennial lawmakers, has tapped Reps. Katie Hill, Anthony Gonzalez, Lance Gooden, and Joe Neguse as its newest leaders. They t... Read more »
U.S. Representative Anthony Gonzalez (R-Rocky River) recently released a new Thank-a-Vet Thursday (#TVT) video featuring Strongsville resident and Northeast Ohio native Jim Kaster, a U.S. Army combat veteran who served our country during the Vietnam War. Shared on Rep. Gonzalez’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, this #TVT video is an excerpt from a longer interview for the Library of Congress’... Read more »
Ohio is using CARES Act dollars to issue new small business relief grants to help businesses that have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications open Nov. 2. ...
