Ohio Capital Journal Editor-in-Chief and Opinion Columnist David DeWitt has been covering government, politics, and policy in Ohio since 2007, including education, health care, crime and the courts, poverty, state and local government, business, labor, energy, the environment, and social issues. He has worked for the National Journal, The New York Observer, and The Athens NEWS. He holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and is a board member of the E.W. Scripps Society of Alumni and Friends.
A bipartisan bill would audit voucher spending and require private schools to report attendance, graduation rates, and test scores—but House Speaker Huffman opposes it.
In the much bandied aphorism, “A society grows great when men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.” What happens to a society when selfish, short-sighted,…
Ohio Republican lawmakers want to try again to rob voters of our fundamental power over the Ohio Constitution. They haven’t learned. In their phenomenal arrogance, Ohio Republican lawmakers once again…
During the 2024 Election, JD Vance and Donald Trump told disgusting, racist lies about Haitians in Springfield and made the southwest Ohio city a national target of hate and extremism.…
Is public fraud infuriating? Yes. Is political corruption an insidious, destabilizing debasement of the public trust and the public good? Absolutely. Should fraud, waste, and abuse be sought out by…
Is everything amazing in Ohio? Is that your experience? Do Ohio politicians have an outstanding record of winning big for Ohio residents? Do you feel like they are looking out…
Here’s the real kick about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never,…
Ohio Republican lawmakers want to raise taxes. Specifically, they want to raise taxes on recreational weed by 50% while making it less potent and redirecting all of its tax revenue…
Five years ago, I wrote about how the politics of stupidity and crankery in America was degrading us as a society and human beings. That was January 2020. Within months,…
Ohio citizens right now are represented by unconstitutionally gerrymandered state lawmakers. The politicians in the General Assembly in Columbus are occupying unconstitutionally gerrymandered seats. This is not a matter of…
Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno accomplished something this week I didn’t even know was possible anymore for my jaded journalist’s mind: He truly surprised me. There I sat…
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