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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Seems like the Republican majority in the Ohio House trying to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch game. -
If politics is, in part, entertainment where the stakes are rather high, the contest between Whaley and Cranley – two political allies and personal friends – may be great fun for political junkies to watch. Or not. -
The Ohio Supreme Court has more impact on people's daily lives than the U.S. Supreme Court. -
A feisty and proud president came to Cincinnati Wednesday to mark the six-month anniversary of his taking office with a frank talk on a myriad of difficult issues that face him. -
Author J.D. Vance spent nearly as many months exploring a run for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat as Lewis and Clark spent exploring the wilderness of the American West. -
You almost had to feel sorry for the four Republican candidates for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat as they wandered around the Lorain County Fairgrounds Saturday as their lord and master, Donald Trump, largely ignored them as he recited his list of grievances with the world before a crowd of thousands, most of whom seem to believe he is still president. -
Republicans in the Ohio House – the majority of them anyway – finally managed to get themselves together and do what they should have done nearly a year ago: Boot former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder out of the House Chamber and leave him out on Broad Street in Columbus to find his way home to Perry County. -
The announcement by Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner, the newest Democrat on the seven-member court, that she will run for Chief Justice in 2022, seems to me as if it could be a good news-bad news situation for the Ohio Democratic Party. -
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. That's where Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine finds himself as he looks ahead to a 2022 run for re-election. -
Ohio is no stranger to scandal.
