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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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There were 58 "Hands Off" protests held in cities throughout Ohio. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentOhio plans to add work requirements for people insured under the Medicaid expansion, even after hearing that efforts to do this in other states did not lead to more employment, just less access to health care. -
Ohio school groups are asking lawmakers to cut from the state budget a provision that would require property taxpayers be refunded anything over a 25% reserve in a district’s operating account. -
The Ohio House version of the two-year budget changes the way public libraries are funded by eliminating the Public Library Fund and instead earmarking a flat line item amount for each year. -
Ohio lawmakers will try again to pass age verification provisions regulating major technology companies, this time targeting application stores rather than individual apps. -
The ban on gender-affirming care for minors, which was part of the Ohio law that also banned trans athletes in girls’ sports, was ruled unconstitutional last month. -
State humanities councils were established by Congress about 50 years ago to make sure National Endowment for Humanities funds made it to smaller communities and organizations. -
The Ohio House GOP folded hundreds of changes into the two-year state budget Tuesday, including several non-fiscal items further legislating sex and gender issues. -
Business & EconomyIn November, an Athens city employee paid $700,000 for construction work on a new fire station. But the money never reached the construction firm it was intended for. -
There are questions about the provision that allows Ohio's public school districts to hold only 25% of their operating budget in reserve.
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The LifeWise bill requires K-12 school districts to develop policies for programs that allow, with parent permission, for outside religious groups to take children off school premises for religious instruction. -
The Ohio Auditor's Office found former Blendon Township Administrator Bryan Rhoads was improperly paid and misused township credit cards. -
The project, years in the planning, was approved by the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board last month. It benefited from a recent fundraiser featuring Pulitzer-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. -
A bill that’s been a priority of Ohio's Republican lawmakers seems to be one of the hundreds of measures that may get to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk this lame duck session – the “Parents’ Bill of Rights”. -
Favor is leaving City Council after she was elected to become the next Franklin County prosecutor. City Council will appoint her successor in January. -
Business & EconomyLeaders from the Columbus Regional Airport Authority (CRAA), Gov. Mike DeWine and several other government officials gathered to celebrate at a ceremony where the new terminal will open. -
Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled the simulator at High Street Church of the Nazarene in Springfield. Eleven others are spread across the city aspart of a larger effort to help Haitian newcomers learn U.S. driving laws. -
State lawmakers agree they want a public works program renewal before Ohio voters in May, but haven’t passed it yet. -
Report released detailing Franklin Co. poverty, program giving cash to single moms launches same dayA RISE Together report released Wednesday documents the state of poverty and economic insecurity in Franklin County. It comes on the same day as the launch of a new program meant to fight poverty, by giving 32 single moms $500 a month to spend with no conditions. -
We’re debating the merits of adding seats to the Ohio Statehouse and Congress.
