What does it really cost Ohio households to lose power for a day?
A bipartisan Ohio House bill would force utilities to pay households at least $50 after 16-hour outages, with no rate hikes to cover the cost.
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The promise of a free education is fundamental to our democracy
ACLU of West Virginia's new lawsuit cites per-pupil spending gaps up to $14,000 between counties, arguing the funding system is worse than when courts struck it down decades ago.
Can Ohio do better than a gas tax suspension?
Economists note the $725 million gas tax holiday skips 370,000 no-car households and would give at-risk families more relief through rebates or tax credits.
Will gas tax gimmick make Ohioans forget why we are in this mess and who got us here?
DeWine calls the $700 million plan a very bad idea as GOP leaders rush a special session days before early voting begins in Ohio.
Ohio farmers are getting crushed by our politicians’ failure to fight for us
Ashland County farmer Joe Stimmell says Husted and Miller's war votes and tariffs pushed fertilizer near $850 a ton and cut cattle values by 20%.
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Ohio families are paying the price for the government-induced energy crisis
Analysis ties Sen. Husted's 14 votes and the Iran war to $2,175 in added costs per Ohio household this year, plus $190 more annually by 2035 from clean energy cuts.
Ohio lawmakers turn their backs on public schools again
A Cleveland Heights education coalition says lawmakers sat on a $2.4 billion surplus instead of closing the Fair School Funding Plan's $2.75 billion gap.
Politicians continue campaign of dehumanizing trans people as affordability crisis crushes families
Ohio Democrats like Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur have shifted toward anti-trans messaging in tight races, drawing backlash from transgender activists who feel abandoned.
ICE’s culture of fear in Ohio is an un-American betrayal of our fundamental values
An Oberlin historian who lived through Pinochet's Chile compares ICE tactics, including a $16.7 million shock-glove contract, to authoritarian fear campaigns.
30 years of Republican dominance of Ohio politics: The results
Ohio's median income rank fell from 23rd to 39th since 1999, while K-12 schools dropped from 5th to 21st nationally, the analysis finds.
Ohio taxpayers face a $1,670 deportation bill, and a smaller workforce
Federal data show 47% of Ohio ICE detainees had no criminal history, while immigrants fill outsized shares of Ohio's care, farm and factory jobs.
Ohio needs economic development accountability and a workforce system that works for workers
A confidential RFP marked for recipients only underlies JobsOhio's $300 million training plan, drawing scrutiny amid fraud findings in other state workforce programs.
Ohio data center tax boondoggles just one example of Kasich corporate giveaways
Kasich's 2011 JobsOhio scheme also gutted Clean Ohio, a bipartisan brownfield program that generated $1.16 billion for the state before its 2021 partial revival.
Back-to-school isn’t just for Ohio’s kids. It’s also for tomorrow’s teachers.
As Ohio districts struggle with teacher shortages, flexible online degree programs are helping working adults with families and jobs enter the classroom.
Should the state of Ohio ban property tax incentives for data centers?
New research suggests data center incentives sway roughly a third of siting decisions, raising questions about who bears the environmental costs versus who gets the tax breaks.
The fight against Flock cameras in Ohio is just the beginning
An analysis found Flock cameras wrongly flagged 71% of vehicles as stolen, while Texas deputies used the network to track a woman across state lines over an abortion.
Ohio voters are mad as hell, but will they actually hold any politicians accountable in November?
Polls show tossup Senate and governor races as gas hits $4.16, ACA premiums double, and 100,000 Ohioans lose SNAP benefits under federal cuts.
Note to the Ohio legislature: Many school districts are in fiscal trouble.
More than 120 Ohio districts are cutting budgets as charter and voucher spending nears $4 billion, prompting calls for citizenship rules on charter board members.
Ohio’s school AI policies need a proof-of-learning standard
The state's model policy covers privacy and ethics but leaves teachers no way to judge whether AI helped students learn or just produce polished work.
Ohio buried its own court ruling. Now it wants you to blame the tax bill instead.
TIF deals and tax abatements shift the burden onto homeowners while Ohio's 2025 tax overhaul left corporate exemptions untouched, decades after courts ruled school funding unconstitutional.
