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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So, what have the five Republicans of the Ohio Redistricting Commission been doing since the Ohio Supreme Court told them last week that their latest version of state legislative district maps were unconstitutional and they had seven days to fix it? Not much. Nothing in fact, except twiddling their thumbs and watching the sand drain out of the hourglass. -
"The most important thing I want the people of Ohio to know about me is that this is a different kind of campaign with a different kind of candidate," Sappington tells WVXU. "I was raised as a working-class kid; I'm earning a modest living as city auditor. I think I am someone the average Ohioan can relate to." -
Contrary to the belief of many Ohio Republicans, the Ohio Supreme Court did not create the mess the state's redistricting process is currently in. -
Many Ohioans have forgotten that their state had a woman governor in Nancy Hollister. -
Chelsea Clark, a Forest Park council member who grew up on an Allen County farm, is the only Democrat willing to take on Republican incumbent Frank LaRose for Ohio Secretary of State. -
This week, the two Democratic candidates for Ohio governor, John Cranley and Nan Whaley, rolled out their choices for running mates with great fanfair. But does it really matter? -
As grim as the news might be, with a pandemic raging and Ohio politics in turmoil, there is reason to be optimistic about the future. -
Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance is being hammered by opponents in the GOP Senate primary for anti-Trump remarks he made in 2016. Now we know why - a new poll suggests Vance is a serious candidate. -
With most of the candidates tripping over themselves to curry favor with former president Trump, Ohio's GOP Senate primary has turned ugly and costly. -
State Sen. Matt Dolan, a Republican from the Cleveland suburb of Chagrin Falls, has other things he wants to talk about than the nation's 45th president.
