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.
Commentary
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.
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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.
Explosive consequences
CDC teams tracing the outbreak were gutted after DOGE cut USAID funding, and a scaled-back FoodNet program made illness reporting optional last year.
Ohio doesn’t need to scrap managed care. It needs to sharpen it.
Senate Bill 386 would shift Ohio Medicaid to a Connecticut-style model just as federal cuts threaten billions in funding and coverage for hundreds of thousands.
The blueprint for fighting Trump’s attempt to sabotage the election, drawn up in Minnesota
The Act Free memo cites FBI raids in Ohio and Georgia, a DOJ lawsuit against 29 states, and Trump's EAC firings as evidence of coordinated interference.
Ohio voter power has been assaulted for half a decade because politicians won’t admit Trump lost
A November ballot measure would add photo ID rules without free ID access and signal lawmakers can eliminate early voting beyond Election Day polling places.
Faith leaders are right to call on Ohio elected officials to protect voter rights and fair elections
Secretary of State Frank LaRose dismissed the clergy coalition as a publicity stunt while handing DOJ nearly 8 million voters' private data despite federal court rulings against it.
Grace abandoned: Ohio’s journey to politicians stealing power from voters in elections
Ohio scrapped its 10-day mail ballot grace period despite 74-0 opposition testimony, a move that could have voided over 20,000 votes in past elections.
Ramaswamy called American culture 'mediocre.' Then he skipped America's 250th for Paris.
As Ohioans in all 88 counties marked the nation's 250th, the Republican governor nominee spent it on a private jet to Paris. The contrast is the point.
Trump’s attack on TPS for Haitians is an attack on Springfield, Ohio’s entire community
A Springfield pastor urges the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill extending TPS three years, warning Trump's rollback would repeat 2024's bomb threats and school disruptions.
Ohio State Fair will feature ‘Freedom Trucks’ passing off right-wing propaganda as American history
PragerU and Hillsdale College created the exhibits, which historians say omit slavery and Native American history while emphasizing Christian nationalism.
The new frontier for regulating diversity and inclusion efforts in Ohio is university payroll
HB 698 would tie state funding to an unspecified anti-DEI review, risking millions in cuts to university payroll across Ohio's public colleges.
