Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
In 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists inducted Wilkinson into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.
In 2019, Wilkinson was named Senior Political Analyst for Cincinnati Public Radio as he retired from fulltime employment. He will continue to appear on Cincinnati Edition, write blogs on politics and his popular Tales from the Trail, all available on wvxu.org.
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Brown, in his sixth decade in elective office, is facing what is probably the fight of his life in politics. -
Ohio's J.D. Vance and Jim Jordan are among the leading defenders of the former president. -
The American Action Network, a 501(c)(4) organization closely aligned with the Republican Party, is spending $2 million on TV ads in 14 congressional districts around the country, including Landsman's. -
Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Ohio's chief elections officer, wants to amend the state constitution to require constitutional amendments brought by petition initiatives to garner 60% of the vote to be approved. Voting rights advocates and conservative groups alike are crying foul. -
Greg Landsman, a Democrat on Cincinnati City Council, won a narrow victory over Republican incumbent Steve Chabot Tuesday, ending Chabot's quarter-century hold on the seat. -
A $2 million ad buy from a Republican PAC attacking Democratic candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court has prompted a letter of condemnation from the Ohio State Bar Association calling the ad "misleading." But the Republican State Leadership Committee won't take the ad down. -
The Senate Majority PAC, the main source of outside funding for Democratic Senate candidates, hasn't spent a dime on the campaign of Tim Ryan in Ohio and doesn't plan to. Ryan is taking it as another sign that he isn't dependent on either party. -
Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp and Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman went to the U.S. Supreme Court to get the Ohio Supreme Court off their backs on gerrymandering congressional districts. But a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision may doom their effort to failure. -
"I was shocked," said Lauren Copeland, a political science professor at Baldwin Wallace University, which conducted the poll. "Shocked to the point where I was going back and double-checking everything to make sure it was right." -
Two years ago, the Greene County village of Yellow Springs voted to allow its 27 non-citizen residents to vote in local elections. But Issue 2 on the November ballot could take away their power to do that.
