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Jon Husted voted to cut food aid for hungry families. Ohio now has 50,000 fewer children on SNAP
More than 107,000 fewer Ohioans receive food assistance, including 50,477 fewer children, as new restrictions Husted backed take effect.
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‘Ohio’s become incredibly expensive.’ Democratic lawmakers blame One Big Beautiful Bill for prices
Landsman's GOP opponent calls the affordability claims hypocritical, as marketplace premiums nearly double and 100,000 Ohioans lose SNAP benefits.
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Ohio economists split on benefits of year-round daylight saving time
Fifteen economists surveyed were nearly evenly split, recalling how 1974's permanent daylight saving experiment collapsed amid dark school bus stops and stalled energy savings.
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Data center developers donate millions to Ohio utility assistance program as national backlash grows
Critics call the $18.5 million in donations a PR move timed to a GOP memo warning data centers could cost Husted his Senate seat.
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Ramaswamy’s property tax plan could trigger layoffs of over 50,000 teachers, 32,000 first responders
Fiscal officials warn income or sales taxes would need to nearly triple to replace lost revenue.
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Ramaswamy backed Trump’s tariffs. Ohio manufacturers and farmers got the bill.
Tosoh SMD lost $4 million in six months while Ohio soybean exports to China fell 85%, as Ramaswamy's campaign defended Trump's trade approach instead of the specific tariffs.
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Les Wexner stepping down as chair of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Board
Wexner keeps an honorary board seat as M/I Homes CEO Robert Schottenstein is set to take over, while 500 requests to remove Wexner's name from campus buildings remain pending.
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Who is Linda Caudill? The Republican insider Ramaswamy chose to blame Amy Acton for her mother’s death
The woman blaming Amy Acton for her mother’s death has spent a decade in Republican politics — chairing Donald Trump’s Hamilton County campaign, organizing conservative activists and winning a seat on the Ohio GOP’s State Central Committee.
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Ramaswamy breaks silence on Max Miller, supports him fully: Preserving GOP control is ‘most important’
Two GOP senators on the same endorsement page as Ramaswamy have called for Miller to resign, but his name still isn't going anywhere.
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Amy Acton promotes plan to make Ohio government more ethical
The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says she would establish anti-corruption task forces to prevent future malfeasance in state government.
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Fact check: Ramaswamy ad blames Acton for death of woman who lived and died in Kentucky, not Ohio
DeWine has repeatedly said pandemic decisions were his alone, and the ad's spokeswoman was cut from a 2017 GOP campaign over a violent meme targeting Jon Husted.
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Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association endorses Amy Acton for governor
The endorsement splits Ohio police unions, coming a month after the state's largest, the FOP, backed Ramaswamy and an all-Republican slate for the first time in recent memory.
