Oct 11, 2024 · Winning Ohio used to be crucial to winning the presidential election. This year, not so much. Ohio used to be a key swing state in the presidential election for decades — meaning lots of political ads and campaign stops — but the tide shifted back in 2016, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

Jan 2, 2025 · The program would have also given an “award” to graduating students depending on their GPA. Despite Isaacsohn emphasizing the urgency of the problem and the need for the legislature to act, he and Seitz’s bill, House Bill 348, never made it past the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee, and the bill died with the end of the 135th General Assembly.

Nov 20, 2024 · The food insecurity rate for Ohio children is 15%, with some counties having rates up to 24%, Rees said. “Increasing children’s access to fresh and nutritious food now, including through free school meals for all students, could help America recover from the present challenges and bolster national security in the future,” she said.

Dec 23, 2024 · Morgan Trau is a political reporter and multimedia journalist based out of the WEWS Columbus Bureau. A graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Trau has previously worked as an investigative, political and fact-checking reporter in Grand Rapids, Mich. at WZZM-TV; a reporter and MMJ in Spokane, Wash. at KREM-TV and has interned at 60 Minutes and worked ...

Dec 24, 2024 · Commutations in context. Biden’s commutations mean 37 people previously on death row will now face life in prison without the possibility of parole. The president did not change the sentences of the men convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing, or shootings at the Tree Life Synagogue and Emanuel AME Church.

Dec 20, 2024 · A national coalition of child care and early learning advocates, including one with services in Ohio, sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging his help in improving the child care system across the country.

Dec 18, 2024 · Members of Congress are in line for their first pay raise since 2009 if they pass a massive stopgap spending measure that would avert a partial government shutdown.

Dec 5, 2024 · A proposed Ohio constitutional amendment that would end qualified immunity that protects government employees such as police officers from lawsuits can start gathering signatures to get on next year’s November ballot.. The Ohio Ballot Board advanced the proposed amendment one step further by ruling during Wednesday’s meeting that the amendment contains only one single issue.

Dec 27, 2024 · The Ohio Poverty Law Center is praising a law passed in the lame-duck session of the Ohio General Assembly that is intended to reduce the huge number of Ohioans whose driver's licenses are suspended because of unpaid debts or drug offenses. The bill awaits Gov. Mike DeWine's signature.

Dec 13, 2024 · An Ohio Supreme Court decision could bring about challenges to those hoping to keep pharmaceutical companies accountable for the opioid crisis, and others who hope to file claims of a “public nuisance," as well as impact a $650 million judgment for two Ohio counties.