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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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Former President Donald Trump has pledged to revoke the short-term protective status of Haitian immigrants in Ohio and see to their deportations during a second term. -
City IT services are still only 75% restored after a July cyber attack left systems crippled. -
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost claimed that the title of the "Ohio Voters Bill of Rights" was misleading. -
In the midst of preparing for an election that’s a week away, Ohio’s Republican secretary of state is suing the US Department of Homeland Security to get access to databases he said will help Ohio find non-citizens who voted, which is illegal. -
The decision on the six-week ban comes nearly a year after Ohio voters approved an amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. -
The Summit County Board of Elections remained deadlocked on party lines in a hearing. -
Mid-Ohio Food Collective plans to transform a former Kroger store on Refugee Road into the MOFC’s Eastland Prosperity Center. -
We’ll talk about how voters without kids, young voters and unions figure in election outcomes. -
Ohio’s no longer a swing state, but ballots are busy this fall, with more than just the contest for the White House. -
Several groups representing voters have sent a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose about the issue.
