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Julia Kuo for The Marshall ProjectEnacted in 2019, Reagan Tokes Law was designed to protect the public with a carrot-and-stick approach to incarceration. It gave prison administrators exclusive powers to add time for people who misbehave behind bars, or to recommend early release for those who follow the rules. -
Ohio StateU.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley granted the temporary restraining order in a case filed by Ohio State doctoral student Prasanna Oruganti, whose visa was revoked.
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Health, Science & EnvironmentAn Ohio Medicaid spokesperson said there aren't problems getting payments to providers, as an employee revealed earlier this month. But Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University Medical Center confirmed the problems. -
Each of the three Columbus City Council candidates is bringing new policy ideas to the table. WOSU is taking a look at some of these ideas as the May 6 primary approaches. -
Sherrod Brown, who served three terms in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, said the non-partisan, non-profit will focus on helping workers by creating an economy that works for them. -
The Republican primary for governor is more than a year away, but one candidate is continuing to announce endorsements - though he may already have the only one that matters. -
Ohio voters approved a sweeping reproductive rights amendment in 2023. Opponents look to a changed Ohio Supreme Court to rein in those rights. -
The amendment would authorize the state to sell $600 million in 30-year bonds as its part of financing a domed stadium and surrounding development for the Browns in Brook Park, 12 miles outside of Cleveland. -
The National Transportation Safety Board identified the Ohio bridges as part of an investigation into the 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland. -
Ohio's transportation budget was approved in plenty of time to make the deadline of the end of this month, and there were some changes between the House and Senate version. -
Ohio's unions are concerned about what they see as an attack on organized labor in Senate Bill 1, the measure that seeks to ban diversity programs and faculty strikes at public universities. -
The Ohio House advanced its first property tax proposal this session. Some lawmakers say it was the first of many bills on an issue constituents are calling about.
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Ohio lawmakers are being called back to work this week. Gov. Mike DeWine said he is tired of waiting for them to ensure President Joe Biden is on Ohio’s ballot this November. -
A special session of the Ohio legislature begins today, called by Gov. Mike DeWine to change an election law deadline so President Biden can be on the fall ballot and to ban foreign contributions to ballot issue campaigns. -
The GOP majority in the Ohio Senate advanced a bill that would weaken the power common pleas judges have in pausing state laws during active litigation. -
Business & EconomyA study showed the travel industry supports more than 82,500 jobs in Columbus and Franklin County. Visitors spent about $8.2 billion at local businesses last year. -
Ohio’s Republican attorney general is suing to remove two members from the board of the state teachers’ pension fund, saying he's on the side of retired teachers. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThe so-called CAMPUS Act would allocate $4 million in state money toward several newly-established grant programs, including one to boost security for student organizations in Ohio. -
Even after five deadly shootings this weekend, Columbus' murder rate is still below average. -
The $90 billion Ohio teachers’ pension fund was the issue in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the state to remove two of its board members, and at a meeting a few hours later the board voted to install one of those two as chair. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentState Route 104 and I-270 are major routes for commercial haulers taking trash to transfer stations, where garbage goes before heading to the landfill. -
The law has the support of Ohio's largest teachers union, whose members expressed frustration with cellphones distracting students from learning.
