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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WelcomePAC, an organization of Democrats, has signed on many Republicans who want to send a Trump-dominated GOP a message in November by voting for centrist Democrats. -
The chief justice is a Republican who is not at all fond of the partisan gerrymandering that Ohio Republicans are so devoted to. -
Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent governor, wants to make the gubernatorial race about the economy, but his Democratic opponent, Nan Whaley, is banking on outrage from Ohio women voters over the loss of abortion rights to pull an upset win. -
J.D. Vance's campaign, along with some deep-pocketed GOP super PACS, are spending millions on attack ads on Democrat Tim Ryan. Ryan has an answer, though, and it draws on his background as a star high school quarterback. -
Mike DeWine, in his long political career, has debated opponents when he thought it would help him and avoided it when he thought it would do harm. -
Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan raised a lot of eyebrows last week when he came out against President Biden's plan to forgive part of student loan debt of millions of Americans. Ryan is trying to appeal to independents and Republicans, but in the process, he seems to be alienating many loyal Democratic voters. -
The U.S. Senate race in Ohio was supposed to be a chip shot and a short putt — an almost certain win for the GOP. But suddenly, Mitch McConnell is questioning whether his party can win control of the Senate in November, with Republicans sinking $28 million into TV and radio ads to help boost J.D. Vance, their candidate in Ohio. -
Ohio has a long history of spirited candidate debates, most of them broadcast statewide. But it's getting harder and harder to get candidates and and their campaigns to accept them. That's a real loss for voters. -
The remarks J.D. Vance, Ohio's GOP Senate candidate, made at a California high school last fall, led many to accuse him of saying women should stay in abusive, violent marriages. He says his remarks were taken out of context. -
There's no good reason that Ohio should be holding a state legislative primary on Aug. 2 using maps the Ohio Supreme Court has twice ruled to be unconstitutional. But that's the way the Ohio GOP wanted it.
