Democrats more trusted on healthcare costs, survey shows
KFF poll finds 63% of Democrats feel more motivated to vote than in past elections, versus 38% of Republicans, ahead of November midterms.
Economy
Hiring slows in September with job growth of 29K
Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards calls it a textbook weak report as wages trail inflation and August, July job gains were revised sharply downward.
Congressional Republicans want permitting reform. An Ohio project shows how tricky that could be.
Darke, Shelby, Miami and Champaign county officials all back the $1.1 billion power line, as long as it crosses someone else's land instead.
How is Ohio doing amid safety-net cuts? Trump hasn’t released the data
Advocates say the Census Bureau's delayed poverty data and USDA's scrapped food-insecurity survey mask fallout from SNAP and ACA cuts that hit Ohio hardest.
Ramaswamy-owned business left Ohio for Texas
Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Enterprises and was listed as majority owner when the company moved to Dallas in 2024.
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Husted blamed government benefits for ‘out-of-wedlock birth,’ said they ‘drive the father out of the household’
The 2025 podcast remarks preceded Husted's January bill to overhaul federal benefits, part of a pattern of comments on poverty dating back to 2016.
Ohio job growth is slowing, analysis says
Ohio's falling unemployment masks a shrinking workforce, 95,000 fewer Ohioans working or job-hunting than a year ago despite population growth, Policy Matters says.
Gas tax holiday proposal gets first hearing in Ohio Senate
Democrats call the $725 million plan an election-season gimmick for governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, questioning why the GOP waited until now to act.
Fact check: Ramaswamy’s company left Ohio for Texas while he was its majority shareholder
Vivek Ramaswamy has repeatedly distanced himself from Strive Enterprises’ decision to leave Ohio for Texas, saying he was “just a shareholder” and portraying the move as one of the experiences that motivated him to run for governor. Strive’s own regulatory filings tell a much fuller story: Ramaswamy was the company’s majority shareholder when the move was announced.
Race for Ohio Treasurer decides who invests the state’s billions and how
Democrat Seth Walsh wants the office to fight a stadium-funding lawsuit over unclaimed funds, while Republican Jay Edwards wants Ohio banks over Wall Street investors.
The signs offer quick cash for homes. But states want more oversight.
Ohio now requires wholesalers to disclose they may resell contracts below market value, joining 15 states cracking down on deals critics call predatory.
Ohio treasurer candidate Seth Walsh visits Tiffin, pitches investing more state money in Ohio
Walsh wants Ohio to stop new foreign investments and instead boost lending at community banks ahead of his November race against Jay Edwards.
69% of Ohioans struggle to afford at least one basic need, new report says
Families are finding it difficult to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and childcare, the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality analysis says.
Ohio economists: Abatements may attract data centers, but is that a good thing?
One economist calls the incentives a race to the bottom with few local jobs, while another says Ohio's $2.3 billion likely bought data centers it would have gotten free.
Husted helped fuel Ohio’s data center boom. His consumer bill is built on Big Tech’s voluntary pledge.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta fought Ohio's binding cost-sharing tariff, then signed the voluntary pledge Husted's federal bill only requires states to consider adopting.
Max Miller promised to protect taxpayers from ‘waste.’ Then taxpayers paid for an ad praising his work.
Twenty-two days after announcing plans to loan his reelection campaign $1 million, the Ohio Republican aired a taxpayer-funded radio ad featuring a constituent praising him by name. The ad ran just seven days before federal rules shut off such mass communications ahead of Election Day.
Wealthy interests in Ohio and America entrench power in the name of philanthropy, report says
The Lilly Endowment, boosted by Eli Lilly's GLP-1 profits, paid out just 3% in 2024 while an Ohio voting-rights group faced an FBI search.
What’s going on with your power bill and what Ohio’s candidates for governor will do about it
A former PUCO commissioner calls Ramaswamy's free-power pledge doomed to fail, while a consumer advocate says $10 billion in transmission costs go unreviewed.
Ramaswamy called market crash ‘medicine,’ ‘good thing’ as Ohio public pensions lost $32 billion
The Republican candidate for governor wrote that the 2022 market crash would “ultimately be a good thing for the country.” Elsewhere in the same book, he acknowledged a crash could hit middle-class and poor Americans harder while his own life remained “mostly the same.”
Diesel prices shoot upward as top farm-state GOP senator begs Trump for export embargo
The White House rejects Grassley's embargo request as Trump blames Russia's war for the price spike and seven House Republicans defect on Iran authorization.
