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George Shillcock/WOSUErin Upchurch, executive director of the Kaleidoscope Youth Center, said staffing changes, lack of a venue and the current political climate led to the dance's cancellation. -
Sarah Donaldson/Statehouse News BureauMoreno said the historic Chillicothe paper mill, owned currently by Pixelle Specialty Solutions, will pause its permanent closure until December.
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In their first public presentation to state lawmakers, the owners of the Cleveland Browns said they’ll provide some upfront cash to move the deal forward. -
In his State of the State speech, Gov. Mike DeWine will likely highlight the priorities from his budget, some of which his fellow Republicans leading the House and Senate have not enthusiastically embraced. -
Ahead of Gov. Mike DeWine’s annual State of the State address Wednesday, Democratic state lawmakers say they see areas in which they align with DeWine. -
Like a similar attempt to cut costs by Republicans in Congress, the Ohio lawmakers are calling themselves the DOGE caucus. -
A federal judge blocked ICE from deporting Columbia University student and protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil after he was arrested by ICE despite legally being in the U.S. on a green card. The arrest has Muslim and student groups questioning their ability to protest. -
The video showed white men in Ku Klux Klan hoods and pornographic scenes and included antisemitic remarks and slurs against Black and gay people. -
Ohio State University is one of 60 higher education institutions across the country that had been named as targets of an investigation by the Trump administration into what it calls "antisemitic harassment and discrimination" against Jewish students on campus. -
Although advocates are lobbying Ohio lawmakers to fund free meals for K-12 students in the biennial state budget, one legislative leader has already dismissed the idea. -
The theatre company says they've been locked out of the grant portal for the National Endowment for the Arts. Christy Farnbauch, the company's executive director, says she thinks President Donald Trump's executive order barring grants promoting "gender ideology" is to blame. -
The city of Dayton is putting together the final pieces to welcome hundreds of guests from all over the world for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, May 22-26, 2025.
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Columbus leaders have established the Commission on Immigrant & Refugee Affairs. The commission’s new chair, Bartholomew Shepgong, spoke with WOSU’s Debbie Holmes to explain what the agency will do. -
Federal and state individual income tax returns are due, but as Ohioans close the books on a year’s worth of earnings, tax researchers and advocates are looking forward. -
The county’s Democratic chairman says they likely won’t weigh in on a tightly contested three-way race for Columbus City Council District 7. -
A proposal that rail advocates say will move Ohio toward reviving passenger train service is back on track. -
The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds for a domed stadium project for the Browns in a suburb of Cleveland. -
Business & EconomyOhio's biennial state budget now heads to the Senate, and that chamber is targeting a tentative June 12 floor vote, with a June 30 deadline. -
The change involved a small tweak to the plan to give property tax relief to people in Ohio school districts that lawmakers think have too much reserve money in their operating budgets. -
Under a state law signed last year, Ohio public schools had to pass a policy limiting student device use, though the details were theirs to decide. -
Roger Reynolds is posting documents online he says were improperly withheld during his trials and accuses Ohio's attorney general and the Butler County sheriff of using "lawfare" to falsely accuse him of wrongdoing. -
The Ohio Library Council warns the proposal, which eliminates the Public Library Fund and replaces it with a line-item appropriation, would cut funding to Ohio libraries by more than $100 million.
