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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. -
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.
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The "Parents' Bill of Rights," which goes into effect Wednesday, requires schools to have a religious release time policy on the books. -
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.
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On Wednesday the newly elected and re-elected Republicans in the Ohio House will vote for their next leader. -
Groups proposing amendments to repeal some Ohio voting laws and to eliminate qualified immunity for some government employees got rejections from the attorney general. -
State lawmakers created the commission in 2019, ahead of the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. However, Statehouse rules drafted amid political tensions in 2020 imposed a new waiting period of five years on erecting any new monuments on Statehouse grounds. -
Applicants have to apply by Dec. 9 on the city's website. Favor's seat on the council is available after she was elected to serve as Franklin County's next prosecutor. -
A perennial bill to abolish Ohio’s death penalty got another hearing Wednesday morning, but there’s little time left for it to move this year. -
The Ohio Senate on Wednesday approved a ban on transgender students using bathrooms that fit their gender identities and sent the measure to Gov. Mike DeWine. -
This isn’t Matt Dolan’s first time making a run at Congress. He ran in the Republican primary earlier this year and came in second. -
A handful of Ohio Republicans have contacted him about the job, DeWine said, and plenty more are putting in their two cents. -
Tuesday’s vote to return Republican former president Donald Trump to the White House has created an unusual situation for Gov. Mike DeWine. -
Democrats gained some seats in the Ohio House and Senate, on a night that was devastating in other high-profile races.
