The Middletown City Council meets in Middletown, Ohio, hometown of Vice President-elect JD Vance, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Members heard complaints in the weeks after Vance's election that the city was acting too slowly to recognize his achievement. Middletown has since congratulated him on its website and authorized signs that will be place at roads entering the city once he and President-elect Donald Trump are inaugurated on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)