One of the most influential members of Congress — and most ardent defenders of President Donald Trump — is also one of the least active legislatively.

Gov. Mike DeWine and his administration played a hands-on role passing an allegedly pay-for-play nuclear bailout and appointing an industry-friendly regulator who has since been accused of taking a...

In Republican Statehouses across the country, including Ohio, a raft of baseless voting restrictions are sold as insurance against nonexistent threats. The mistrust in elections they cite was...

Ohio Republican lawmakers who indulge all manner of corruption, bribery, and special interest sweetheart lawmaking are just oozing condescension when they point their fingers at Ohio voters as the...

Good riddance, Rob Portman. You will be remembered not as a principled statesman but as a moral coward. We, your constituents, hoped for better from you but it never came, writes columnist Marilou...

Governor Mike DeWine is deploying more than 1,000 national guard troops to Ohio hospitals ahead of a busy holiday season that could swell the number of COVID-19 patients.

Voters in Democratic-stronghold counties are showing up in mass to vote early for the November election on abortion and marijuana, exceeding the already unexpectedly large turnout from the August...

Despite objections from Democrats on Ohio's Redistricting Commission, Republicans have chosen their own plan as the panel's working document.

Breaking: Both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former lobbyist and Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges have been found guilty of racketeering in Ohio's $61 million political...

Former GOP governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, is urging lawmakers to scuttle efforts to raise the threshold for amending the constitution.

Ohio voters have rejected state Issue 1, which sought to make it harder for voters to pass constitutional amendments, the Associated Press has projected.

The grotesque gaslighting by the DeWines in their anti-Issue 1 ad is, unfortunately, not an anomaly in the concerted disinformation campaign running to deny Ohio women a constitutional right to...

The unconstitutionally gerrymandered extremist Republican supermajority in the Ohio House on Wednesday voted to be the first legislature in Ohio history to try to roll back the constitutional power...

The grotesque gaslighting by the DeWines in their anti-Issue 1 ad is, unfortunately, not an anomaly in the concerted disinformation campaign running to deny Ohio women a constitutional right to...

Ohio Republican politicians have completely shed themselves of any sense of shame or conscience. If they are willing to try to erase the trauma of a 10-year-old rape victim, whose pain and suffering...

Using words like "disappointment" and "unease," majority members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission passed a map of General Assembly districts on Thursday that will last four years...if it makes it...

Democrats in Congress reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would guarantee access to birth control regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings. 

When Gov. Mike DeWine last week signed what's been called the nation's strictest voter ID law, it raised fears that it would disenfranchise large numbers of voters in poor communities where people...

When Gov. Mike DeWine last week signed what's been called the nation's strictest voter ID law, it raised fears that it would disenfranchise large numbers of voters in poor communities where people...

Gov. Mike DeWine is being accused of pulling "a switcheroo" on Ohio's retired teachers by terminating a change-minded member of the pension board just as that faction was achieving a majority.

Ohio has a lot of citizens who pay property taxes but don't have school-age children. Their taxes are meant to fund quality public schools because having educated citizens is a public good. Sending...

Ohio has a lot of citizens who pay property taxes but don't have school-age children. Their taxes are meant to fund quality public schools because having educated citizens is a public good. Sending...

Voters in Democratic-stronghold counties are showing up in mass to vote early for the November election on abortion and marijuana, exceeding the already unexpectedly large turnout from the August...

Sec. of State Frank LaRose said it's important to make it harder for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution to keep out-of-state special interests from meddling with the state's foundational documen...

A lawsuit has been filed challenging the state's legally questionable August election meant to stop abortion from becoming legal.

FBI agent testimony Wednesday Ohio bribery and billion dollar bailout racketeering trial showed former House Speaker Larry Householder using FirstEnergy dark money to place an attack ad against his...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Friday said he "certainly wouldn't oppose it" if the legislature impeached Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor over her joining in rulings...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe and Ohio enacted abortion access restrictions, tens of thousands of women in the state have registered to vote, making the Buckeye state one of the...

The unconstitutionally gerrymandered extremist Republican supermajority in the Ohio House on Wednesday voted to be the first legislature in Ohio history to try to roll back the constitutional power...

Two former Ohio Supreme Court justices — one Republican and one Democrat — have joined together to fight for anti-gerrymandering reform that would replace politicians on the state's redistricting...

Save the date, Ohio voters. Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Put it in your phone. Circle it on your calendar. Tell everyone you know. Nearly 175 years of our majority voter authority on the line, writes...

Ohio House Bill 103 is a shameful attempt to micromanage Ohio K-12 social studies and history educational curriculum based on extremist ideology that is rooted in the politically motivated culture...

Like many Ohioans, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Larry Nance Jr. was caught by surprise when he learned the state has no law protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination.

In Republican Statehouses across the country, including Ohio, a raft of baseless voting restrictions are sold as insurance against nonexistent threats. The mistrust in elections they cite was...

A judge in a federal class-action case is again ordering Ohio's former chief utility regulator to fork over documents addressing how he spent the $4.3 million he got from FirstEnergy in 2019 that the...

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted in the largest bribery scheme in state history.

If Ohio politicians planned to show exactly why they deserve to be kicked out of the redistricting process entirely, they couldn't have done a better job than the shameful display they put on...

Last year's proposal to make amending Ohio's constitution more difficult forced a fight that’s still playing out in the Ohio House. Emails and texts between backers shed light on the behind the...

Gov. Mike DeWine is being accused of pulling "a switcheroo" on Ohio's retired teachers by terminating a change-minded member of the pension board just as that faction was achieving a majority.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former GOP leader Matt Borges will both be sentenced to prison in late June.

Happy Pride Month, Ohio. Creepy Republican lawmakers are fixated on assaulting our community. Our trans sisters and brothers led the fight for our human rights, and now they’re being brutally...

A lawsuit has been filed challenging the state's legally questionable August election meant to stop abortion from becoming legal.

Many of Ohio's K-12 students are going hungry. After being turned away due to debt, some stop coming to the lunch room altogether. Universal school lunch and breakfast is supported by a majority of...

January 6 Police Officer Michael Fanone warns November election could bring violence. The 20-year Metro DC police veteran argues violence didn't stop after January 6, and voters should prioritize...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Wednesday offered another rationale for making it much more difficult for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution.

The Ohio Statehouse, and the rest of the country, has their eyes on the public corruption trial involving the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives as jurists were selected Friday.

The FBI has requested that former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder face 16-20 years in prison for "causing immeasurable damage to the institution of democracy," according to a newly-released co...

In an order issued Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster cited the coronavirus pandemic and the differing needs of urban counties versus rural ones.

More than 200 bipartisan groups, four bipartisan former Ohio governors, and Ohio’s entire system of bipartisan elections officials are all against a special August election proposed by Ohio Republi...

A strain of anti-public education ideology has been running rampant among a number of lawmakers in the Ohio Statehouse for many years now. The consequences can been seen across Ohio as districts have...

Save the date, Ohio voters. Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Put it in your phone. Circle it on your calendar. Tell everyone you know. Nearly 175 years of our majority voter authority on the line, writes...

State politicians advanced an effort to place anti-vaccination language onto a general election ballot Tuesday, which would leave the fate of vaccine mandates in Ohio in voters’ hands.

Sec. of State Frank LaRose said it's important to make it harder for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution to keep out-of-state special interests from meddling with the state's foundational documen...

In Republican Statehouses across the country, including Ohio, a raft of baseless voting restrictions are sold as insurance against nonexistent threats. The mistrust in elections they cite was...

Ohio Senate Republicans' planned demolition of the state's new recreational marijuana law is an insult to voters. With redistricting reform around the corner, these Ohio politicians ignore the will...

Plaintiffs in a civil suit related to a massive bribery and money-laundering scandal have subpoenaed documents from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and they're scheduling a sworn deposition with Lt. Gov. Jon...

After the major decision to reinstate August special elections in an attempt to thwart a possible abortion ballot, leading constitutional law experts have weighed in that the resolution is illegal.

Why do Ohio citizens bring amendments instead of statutes? Because citizen statutes aren't protected. Our gerrymandered, extremist Ohio Republican legislature could simply overturn a citizen-passed...

Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose rejected dozens of submissions of old absentee ballot forms printed in a Cleveland newspaper, but when Issue 1 supporters sent out an old form, within hours he issued...

A nonpartisan coalition called Citizens Not Politicians has collected more than the 1,000 signatures they need to start the process of putting an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment on the...

An out-of-state billionaire who wants to make it a lot harder for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution has a history of supporting candidates who falsely deny the results of the 2020 presidential...

A coalition of reproductive rights groups, along with the ACLU of Ohio say they plan to have a pro-abortion ballot initiative on the Ohio Attorney General's desk by February.

Decades of rampant pay-to-play political corruption in Ohio has summoned a breed of public officials who treat state government like a personal playground of private profiteering for themselves and...

Ohio Republicans moving the goal posts from 44 counties to 88 counties, as State Issue 1 proposes, would destroy the ability of grassroots Ohio citizen groups to succeed in getting proposed amendme...

After months of denial, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted that the proposal to make the constitution harder to amend is "100%" due to efforts to legalize abortion.

Looking for someone to blame for increased costs in the grocery aisle? You might not need to look any further than three retail giants, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report last week.

They were warned. Ohio Republican lawmakers and Gov. Mike DeWine were warned time and again that their abortion ban was cruel and would lead to heartbreaking situations of unimaginable pain and...

Ohioans, I'm so proud of you. You stood up for yourselves. You refused to let corrupt politicians and lobbyists steal your power. You paid homage to generations before us who won us these rights, and...

A nonpartisan coalition called Citizens Not Politicians has collected more than the 1,000 signatures they need to start the process of putting an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment on the...

The topic of parental rights does not appear in Ohio Issue 1 on the ballot Nov. 7. There is no mention of denying any rights to parents in the process of enshrining reproductive rights like abortion,...

Ohio Senate Republicans aren't working to fully and fairly fund public schools and make education better for 90% of students. They are working to undercut public education in every way possible to...

We aren't living in the Ohio that most Ohioans want. We are living in the Ohio that corrupt politicians obsessed only with maintaining and maximizing their power, and enriching themselves and their...

You and I can’t ignore the law without consequence. If we break the law, we are held accountable. Ohio Republicans are ignoring their own laws and the Ohio Constitution whenever they wish and facing...

After slamming Trump's New York verdict as "weaponizing justice," Ohio AG Dave Yost's office wouldn't answer if he thinks it's OK for Ohioans to engage in the same conduct: filing wildly false...

During a news conference Wednesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine repeatedly ignored questions about gun safety, which came on a day a 7-year-old was shot in the head in Cleveland, and as the state is suing...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s fledgling U.S. Senate campaign is facing a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission alleging LaRose violated campaign finance law by delaying his...

We aren't living in the Ohio that most Ohioans want. We are living in the Ohio that corrupt politicians obsessed only with maintaining and maximizing their power, and enriching themselves and their...

During a news conference Wednesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine repeatedly ignored questions about gun safety, which came on a day a 7-year-old was shot in the head in Cleveland, and as the state is suing...

In Republican Statehouses across the country, including Ohio, a raft of baseless voting restrictions are sold as insurance against nonexistent threats. The mistrust in elections they cite was...

Ohio has a lot of citizens who pay property taxes but don't have school-age children. Their taxes are meant to fund quality public schools because having educated citizens is a public good. Sending...

“I think the problem here is there are conflicting outcomes in public health literature,” said Dr. Jaime Robertson, an infectious disease physician.

Ohio Republican politicians have completely shed themselves of any sense of shame or conscience. If they are willing to try to erase the trauma of a 10-year-old rape victim, whose pain and suffering...

A coalition of groups hoping to eliminate gerrymandering in the state called the map that could draw district lines for the next 10 years a "failure."

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is continuing to raise doubts about the integrity of American elections — even after President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election fueled a deadly insurrection at the...

An abortion rights amendment proposed for the Ohio Constitution was certified on Tuesday to go forward for consideration by voters in November as nearly 500,000 signatures in support were verified by...

“I have no idea who writes my testimony. I never write my testimony. I never write my floor speeches. That’s what staff is for,” Brinkman said.

“The public has a right to know how it is that the political process was so easily corrupted.”

An Ohio "flat"income tax proposal would add to the overall tax burden shouldered by the poor, complicate the state's school-funding woes, and increase property taxes for farmers and homeowners, a...

Ohio's true state of the state is relentless misrepresentation, extremism, and corruption. Meanwhile, Ohio ranks in the bottom half of states on education, economy, environment, infrastructure, and...

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed legislation that would have prohibited transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care. His veto shoots down the controversial bill, which would...

Ohio House and Senate district maps previously passed by Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission and previously ruled unconstitutional remain invalid, a bipartisan 4-3 majority on the...

The glaring prejudicial language approved by the Ohio Ballot Board for voters see in November on Ohio's reproductive rights amendment is meant to intentionally distort the initiative so it fails, and...

A chorus of medical students and other future health professionals is trying to get the word out that re-enactment of harsh abortion restrictions will drive them away from Ohio, which already has one...

Ohio has seen a recent spike in young voter registration. More than 48,600 18-year-olds are registered to vote in Ohio as of Jan. 6 — a 35% increase compared to late August, according to data...