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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Earlier this week, the Ohio Supreme Court once again ruled that a congressional district map submitted by Republicans for the 2024 election is unconstitutional. But it may not matter if the GOP ignores the court's orders, as they've done before. -
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's attacks on the credibility of a 10-year-old rape victim is going to be make it even less likely that victims of rape and sexual assault will report the crimes, abortion rights activists say. -
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley is working to put together a coalition to mount a petition initiative to put the abortion rights of Roe v. Wade in Ohio's constitution. Polling suggests it could be passed by voters. -
National polling makes it clear a majority of Americans disagree with the Supreme Court on abortion. And Republicans fear that suburban women will turn out in November to vote their outrage. The organization Red Wine & Blue's mission is to turn that outrage into change. -
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan knows Ohio politics well enough that he understands he must make it clear to voters he won't be beholden to the Democratic Party if elected. -
P.G. Sittenfeld has been a man in a hurry to move up the political ladder since he first ran for Cincinnati council in 2011. His ambition has helped him face prison time in the criminal trial that begins this week. -
Gov. Mike DeWine's GOP base is mostly OK with his approach to gun issues, but the question for DeWine as a candidate for re-election is whether or not he is alienating voters who are fed up with gun violence and mass shootings. -
Running out the clock — that is exactly what the Republican majority on the Ohio Redistricting Commission is doing to its "opponent," the four-member majority of the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court. -
Jim Obergefell, whose name is on a landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision establishing the right to same-sex marriage, has been the underdog before. This time, he is running against an incumbent Republican for an Ohio House seat in his hometown of Sandusky. -
Gerrymandering is the easy answer, but it's not that simple.
