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Renee Fox/WOSU NewsThe Data Center Coalition, a national organization representing data centers, is not happy with a decision state utility regulators made this week allowing AEP Ohio to charge that industry for power differently than other rate payers. -
American Campus Communities/University Impact District Review BoardA Texas-based student housing developer wants to demolish The Little Bar at 2195 N. High St. to make way for a 9-story apartment tower with more than 800 beds.
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Labor groups for construction workers, nurses, and public school and local government employees say the budget law will only benefit the rich while hurting working families and potentially closing rural hospitals. -
Columbus and dozens of other cities filed a federal lawsuit after the Trump administration said it would pull money from "sanctuary cities." Columbus has not declared itself a sanctuary city. -
The ballot board had to determine if the petitions for the Ohio Equal Rights Amendment should be circulated as one or more parts. -
The Bureau of Motor Vehicles office in Gahanna is scheduled to reopen on July 21 after closing abruptly on April 18. -
Columbus Congresswoman Joyce Beatty said she intends to run for office in 2026 after hip replacement and eye surgery sidelined her for weeks. Beatty returned to Washington D.C. last week to vote against President Donald Trump's tax cut and spending bill. -
Congress is considering taking back funding for public media. would hurt the budgets of public radio news outlets across the state. -
Republican lawmakers frustrated at Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 line-item vetoes in the new state budget have planned to come back later this month to override some of those. -
An appeals court has ruled the state of Ohio does not have the legal authority to prevent communities from banning flavored tobacco products -
The ban is scheduled to begin in January 2026, but some Ohio districts are opting to implement it when students return from summer break. -
The Whittier Street bridge that provides access to Scioto Audubon Metro Park and the Lower Scioto Greenway officially reopened with a new pathway for bikes and pedestrians.
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Four protesters, a legal observer and a street medic will get $800,000 total, to be split between the six of them. Each person claimed police shot them with knee knocker or rubber bullets or assaulted them by shoving them or grabbing them by the throat. -
Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed 67 line items when he signed the biennial state budget late Monday night. It’s the highest count in more than a decade of budgets. -
Gov. Mike DeWine signed his last budget right at the deadline, vetoing 67 items, but allowing a flat income tax and $600 million for the Cleveland Browns' stadium in Brook Park to go forward. -
Another busy season for the Ohio General Assembly came and went without any success modifying marijuana laws. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentA Columbus couple's nonprofit, This Must Be The Place, has distributed more than 100,000 overdose-reversing naloxone kits. -
Gov. Mike DeWine said there will “certainly be something” he’ll veto in the two-year Ohio budget, but he wouldn’t give too many hints on Saturday morning. -
Columbus City Council member Lourdes Barroso de Padilla warns that Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling has implications beyond birthright citizenship. The court's decision removed lower court universal injunctions as a roadblock for President Donald Trump's administration to enforce executive orders. -
Advocates for LGBTQ Ohioans are urging Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a half dozen provisions in the state budget that Republican state lawmakers passed this week. -
Columbus announced its next phase for the Zone-In plan, which seeks to modernize and update its zoning code and land-use policy to encourage development. This next set of parcels include more than 40% of the city, mainly in commercial and industrial areas. -
Community Fest, better known as ComFest, got its start in 1972 amid the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Progressive politics have always been part of the festival and this year will be no different.
