Ohio voters need 20/30 vision for the next round of redistricting
Republicans' 2010 REDMAP strategy shows how state legislative races years before a census can lock in decades of redistricting control.
Commentary
Data center debate exposes Ohio’s uneven energy landscape
Ohio law lets counties ban wind and solar projects and adds local votes and rules gas plants avoid, steering data centers toward fossil fuel power.
Ohio lawmakers must prevent Kroger’s surveillance pricing scam
While 11 states and Congress advance surveillance-pricing bills, Ohio has introduced none, despite Kroger earning $500 million yearly selling shopper data.
Ohio high school sports on the installment plan
Reynoldsburg charges $500 per sport in a district where most students are labeled economically disadvantaged, while neighboring Columbus charges nothing.
Voting rights are under fire in Ohio. Casting a ballot is how you fight back.
The Voter Participation Center's president says LaRose warned Ohioans against groups like hers while giving 8 million voters' data to Trump's DOJ.
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Voting rights anniversary spotlights America’s enduring anti-Black contempt
Eric Holder and legal scholars trace 61 years of Voting Rights Act erosion to 2013 and 2026 Supreme Court rulings that stripped federal preclearance protections.
Ohio has more history than it did in 1974. Ohio Village will, too
After a $20 million renovation, the living-history museum will expand beyond 1890 to cover World War I, women's suffrage and the Great Depression when it reopens next spring.
America’s sunk so low, dishonor and disgrace don’t end political careers. Ohio politicians prove it.
A Politico poll found 72% of MAGA voters would still back a GOP candidate accused of domestic violence, as Trump and Ohio senators stay silent on Miller.
Fracking is not ‘responsible development’ of Ohio’s state parks and public lands
22,000 fracked acres of Ohio public land since 2022 and four Washington County injection wells have been shut down over contaminated groundwater.
Launching the Somaliland Ohio Association: Building a stronger, more engaged community in Ohio
Columbus City Council Member Mark Sigrist joined the July 18 launch, as new leaders Suubane, Fu.ad, Mohammad and Burale set priorities on education and business.
Ohio government doesn’t have to ban speech on campus to silence it
A Kent State survey found a third of faculty already altered lessons under Senate Bill 1, which is also costing universities up to $2 million yearly to enforce.
Ohio Republicans preach family values. When power is at stake, they abandon them.
Party leaders stripped, then restored, committee seats and endorsements for accused lawmakers rather than risk losing them in November.
Hate and racism toward Haitians in Ohio is mindless, pathetic, and weak
Springfield leaders scramble to plan foster care for 1,400 US-born children as TPS ends for roughly 15,000 Haitians facing possible ICE detention.
Ohio should treat the threat of radioactive fracking waste like the emergency that it is
A Marietta College geologist warns migrating wastewater already invaded over 100 gas wells and now threatens drinking water for more than 100,000 people in Ohio and West Virginia.
Ohio citizens showed power by stopping state EPA approval for data center pollution of waterways
Trump had pushed Ohio EPA to expedite data center permits, and the scrapped plan would have let facilities discharge untreated wastewater with minimal inspection.
Here’s how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative got politicians from both parties on board
Researchers say local project funding, coordinated messaging and business backing helped the initiative survive Trump's 2019 proposed 90% cut.
Should Ohio freeze utility rates for a year?
Rep. Desiree Tims's freeze targets relief after Ohio electricity prices rose 29% since 2019, but critics warn it could delay grid maintenance and reliability upgrades.
Ohio local governments embracing clean energy to alleviate burden of energy affordability crisis
Dayton's Gem City Solar Project locks in 30% of city power for 25 years and an estimated $42 million in savings while PUCO keeps approving rate hikes.
Trump’s cruel deportation campaign will devastate Springfield, Ohio and endanger its Haitian neighbors
Policy Matters Ohio ties the expiring status to 1,100 lost jobs and a projected $300 million annual hit to Clark County, even before removals begin.
Ohio US Sen. Bernie Moreno blows hot air over Canada wildfire smoke
Moreno's Senate bill to sanction Canada ignores climate research tying wildfire severity to accelerating global warming and vast, hard-to-fight boreal forests.
