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.
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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.
Lowering Medicare eligibility age would be a lifeline for Ohioans
Laid-off Ohioans 55-64 stay jobless roughly 33 weeks on average, while ACA marketplace premiums jumped 20% after subsidies lapsed.
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New Trump rules upend legal student visas. The consequences for Ohio will bring lasting pain
New federal caps and a 30-day exit window threaten Ohio's 36,000 international students, whose $1.3 billion economic impact supports nearly 11,000 jobs statewide.
Ohio officials in state, Congress, need to step in after death of young Haitian student
Springfield's mayor and Gov. DeWine have gone silent while ICE enforces paperwork violations with raids and ankle monitors on Haitian residents.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a cheater, a scam artist, and a liar — and Ohio is running out of patience with him
After blaming Amy Acton for a death in Kentucky and turning a childhood sexual abuse survivor’s trauma into political ammunition, Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is getting uglier as the race gets tighter.
New Ohio Senate bill would legislate higher ed viewpoints, further power of SB 1
Sen. Jerry Cirino says SB 461 closes a loophole, but the bill hands five unelected board members exclusive control over civics course content statewide.
AI’s natural gas addiction could be deadly for Ohio’s communities
A Virginia study found one gas-powered data center could cause up to $99 million yearly in health damages, while Ohio fast-tracks similar plants.
Ohio politicians welcomed unregulated data centers by the hundreds. Ohio citizens are fighting back.
Ohio lost $1.5 billion in 2025 tax breaks to Amazon, Meta and Google, nearly 12 times projections, prompting DeWine to pause new deals.
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.
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.
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.
