Ohio Politics
Should schools out transgender students to parents? Ohio House could decide next week
Ohio House Bill 8 passed an Ohio House committee on Tuesday. It could come to a vote on the House floor next week.
Ohio voters appear to understand that Issue 1 attacks democracy despite Frank LaRose’s misleading wording: Today in Ohio
Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin and content director Laura Johnston.
Ohio Senate’s budget would roll back proposed funding for childcare
The Senate’s initial budget revisions, unveiled last week, come as childcare affordability and access is becoming an ever-greater problem both in Ohio and around the country.
Ohio government panel approves spending $322k to promote State Issue 1
As part of a mandated legal notification process, the money will pay to publish information about State Issue 1 for three consecutive weeks in one newspaper in all 88 Ohio counties starting on July 16.
State Issue 1′s ballot language corrected after state supreme court ruling: Capitol Letter
On Aug. 8, voters will vote on Issue 1, which would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution.
Instead of taking cheap shots against judges, Mayor Bibb needs to focus on what he can do about street violence: editorial
Street violence in Cleveland is a serious and multifaceted problem. It needs to be treated as such -- with more specifics and clearer goals, and less grandstanding and scapegoating, writes the editorial board of The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com.
What it may take to shake GOP voters’ loyalty to Donald Trump: Eric Foster
Candidate Trump famously proclaimed in 2016, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Seven years later, all the evidence says that he’s probably right. He’s been indicted twice, and he will still likely win the Republican Party nomination for president.B ut as I read last week’s federal indictment, I thought about one thing that might sever the stranglehold Trump has on the Republican Party that goes beyond the lies, the electoral losses and accusaions: prison, writes Eric Foster in his column today
Black voters are ‘woke’ to what Ron DeSantis is doing by appropriating that word: Marvin A. McMickle
Here is a news flash for Ron DeSantis and his ideological counterparts: People in the African American community are alert to the ways in which "woke," a term we coined for one purpose, has been appropriated for use in an entirely different and extremely dangerous way. Dare I say it, we are “woke” about your sociopolitical agenda masquerading as being “woke," writes the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle in a guest column today.
Systemic educational reform is what’s needed for Ohio: Susan Tave Zelman
Ohio could learn much from Mississippi's success in education. But first our lens in Ohio must change the focus from tinkering at the edges of education to accepting responsibility for building a working system of effective and efficient education, for all students, writes guest columnist Susan Tave Zelman, a former Ohio superintendent of public instruction, and co-author of "The Buying and Selling of American Education: Reimagining a System of Schools for All Children."
Not just locker-room talk - standing up to homophobia in sports: Leila Metres
Some people might say homophobic comments are just locker-room talk, but I don’t believe that anymore.
Protecting stoves or gaslighting? Republicans pass ‘Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act’
In Ohio, about 34% of households used gas ranges, cooktops and ovens in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
U.S. House Republicans shoot down gun regulation on stabilizing braces, but unlikely to get traction in Senate
Republicans including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan claim the new federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives policy “unilaterally puts new restrictions on Second Amendment rights.