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Ohio has joined the list of around a dozen states where Republican lawmakers are attempting to ban schools from teaching critical race theory, a concept that’s been around for more than 40 years as a way to examine race and inequality as a systemic problem in American society.

Republican lawmakers are making changes to a bill that seeks to give local voters the power to reject a renewable energy project in their neighborhood.

The Ohio House has passed a bill to include not following a police officer’s order or diverting an officer’s attention into obstruction of justice ....

The next project for the Ohio Redistricting Committee will be redrawing the Congressional map, with one member of Ohio’s delegation losing their job. And the expectations are low to hit the deadline for that map too.

Lawmakers have held hearings for two bipartisan bills in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate to end the executions.

FirstEnergy will pay $230 million after entering into a deferred prosecution agreement over charges that bribed then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Public Utilities of Ohio Commission chair Sam Randazzo.

Some Ohio lawmakers want to make sure Ohioans who don’t want to get vaccinated or don’t want to wear masks won’t feel compelled to do so. The latest bill would keep schools and businesses from requiring masks for entry.

The map, which goes from 16 districts to 15 and creates only two districts that strongly favor Democrats, now heads to the Ohio House.

Neither the state nor any Ohio city has closed gun stores in an emergency, but Republican Representative Scott Wiggam says gun stores in other states were temporarily closed in the summer of 2020 because of COVID and protests. He said his bill would make it clear that Ohio’s elected officials cannot do the same.

The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would create a permanent fund of more than $1.3 billion, given to states, territories, and tribal nations for wildlife conservation on the ground.