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Shutterstock/ShutterstockState, national and international leaders are remembering Pope Francis, who died just after Easter Sunday. -
Karen KaslerOhio's May 6 ballot will feature local primaries and money asks, but only one statewide question, on whether to renew a nearly 40-year-old initiative that allows the state to issue bonds to pay for local infrastructure projects.
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Former Ohio State football coach and Youngstown State’s ex-president Jim Tressel becomes Ohio’s 67th lieutenant governor officially Friday with a Statehouse swearing-in ceremony. -
Sen. Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson) has announced she will run for Ohio treasurer in 2026, a few days after another Republican joined that contest. -
More than 800 people submitted testimony opposing the bill. -
The Upper Arlington school board on Tuesday unanimously removed a May 2021 policy that created “all-gender” bathrooms for students. -
Cordray was head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for five years until he chose to run for Ohio governor in 2018. Cordray says the agency is under threat from President Donald Trump. -
The Eddie Eagle cartoon, produced by the National Rifle Association in the late 1980s, is being used in Cleveland, Akron and cities across the country to try to teach children gun safety. But research shows it's ineffective. -
The vote to pass the anti-DEI higher ed bill came less than a day after hundreds of opponents testified at the Ohio Statehouse in a hearing that went more than eight hours. -
Business & EconomyJP Morgan Chase President and CEO Jamie Dimon helped open the bank's first community center branch in Columbus. He took questions from reporters on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and return-to-work policies. -
A state legislative board extended Ohio’s lucrative funding contract with JobsOhio, the private firm pursuing economic projects on the state’s behalf. -
The university eliminated the position of senior vice provost of inclusive excellence. Meanwhile, the school's interim vice provost for diversity and inclusion retired.
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The county party's screening committee weighed endorsing or not in both races, but opted to move ahead only with the three open seats on the Columbus City Schools' Board of Education. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentDoulas help navigate pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Though the process hasn’t been without problems, the state has certified dozens of doulas in at least 20 counties. -
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.
