Vax-A-Million Sweepstakes

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the top stories from 2021.

The DeWine administration and national researchers are at odds as to whether the state’s Vax-A-Million lottery sweepstakes made a significant impact on vaccination uptake.

With a little over a day till the deadline on Wednesday, the new two-year state budget is on its way to Gov. Mike DeWine after overwhelmingly bipartisan votes in the House and Senate late Monday evening.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the Ohio Senate's move to cut funding to an effort to expand internet access to unserved areas.

The fifth and final winners of Ohio’s Vax-a-Million lottery will be announced Wednesday, concluding the five week-long vaccination sweepstakes that was one of the first of its kind in the country.

There are only two weeks left for Vax-A-Million, the state’s weekly drawings in which vaccinated Ohioans can win a million dollars or a full-ride college experience. But Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is hinting there might be some new prizes coming in the future.

Ohio's third Vax-a-Million winner is from central Ohio. Mark Cline from the Union County village of Richwood is the third person to win the drawing for vaccinated Ohioans.

The latest winner of Ohio's second million-dollar vaccine lottery said the sweepstakes was the extra motivation he needed to go get the COVID-19 shot.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, host Mike Thompson discusses the proposed legislation that would prevent transgender athletes from participating in school and college sports. OHSAA spokesperson Tim Stried joins the show.