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Passed and signed into law last Thursday and Friday, the Republican-majority Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes major changes to federal food assistance that will affect Ohio.
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Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann filed the lawsuit in a Franklin County Court.
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State regulators at the PUCO held hearings to determine if FirstEnergy broke state regulations during a 2019 corruption scandal. But the PUCO itself enabled some of the corruption.
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A group that is collecting signatures to put property tax abolition on the statewide ballot in Ohio next year is questioning budget decisions.
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Ohio’s Attorney General has given the green light to backers of an anti-discrimination amendment in the first step to put their measure on the ballot next year.
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Business & EconomySilicon Valley billionaires plan to start a new lending bank focused on crypto currency and tech companies in Columbus. Ohio business leaders hope the bank will help draw more companies to the region as Intel and Anduril build new factories.
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Farmers with unpredictable and self-employed jobs can have a tough time getting health insurance. Ohio is the latest state to change the law to let the Farm Bureau sell an alternative.
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Ohio will soon be requiring anyone under the age of 21 years old to take driver’s education training before getting a license.
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The Liberty Township Board of Trustees voted on a resolution to establish a “Protect and Serve Charge” on Tuesday that would add a $1 fee to Columbus Zoo tickets. It will go into effect on Aug 30.
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Broad Street Presbyterian Food Pantry Director Kathy Kelly-Long believes need will increase if the program is cut back, and she said food pantries can't keep up.
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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.
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New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable Care Act's health care coverage are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors around the country.
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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.
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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.
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Another busy season for the Ohio General Assembly came and went without any success modifying marijuana laws.
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Health, Science & EnvironmentA Columbus couple's nonprofit, This Must Be The Place, has distributed more than 100,000 overdose-reversing naloxone kits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dani Isaacsohn, who is 36, succeeds Rep. Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) at the helm of the Ohio Democratic House caucus.