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Mark's Almanac for January 3, 2019

On this date in 1973 this man, born in Rocky River, Ohio, led a group of investors to purchase the New York Yankees from CBS for $8.7 million dollars....

Composers Incorporated: C.O.D.E. "Gets Real" with Donald Erb

One of the most satisfying aspects of a good concert can be the visceral impact of seeing other everyday people, some of whom you personally know, perform…

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, overseeing the Election Night Reporting Center, in Columbus, Ohio, calls for the closing of the polls in the Ohio primary election, Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

An Imperfect Election

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss how Ohio handled its primary…

FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2012, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich arrives at a JobsOhio board meeting in Cincinnati. Kasich and the Republican governor's chief of staff Beth Hansen, spokesman Jim Lynch and security detail depart for Germany and England on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, for business and policy discussions with corporate and world leaders, planned by the governor's privatized job-creation office JobsOhio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Transparency at JobsOhio

JobsOhio is in the news not because of a big new project, but because of the role, however small, it played in the sudden resignation of Ohio State University President Ted Carter.

FILE - Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, speaks, Jan. 31, 2023, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Key Takeaways from the Ohio Primary

The candidates are set for Ohio's general election in November. There were no big surprises in this week’s primary.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services speaks at a press conference in Columbus about state and federal efforts to combat fraud on June 4, 2026.

Inside the allegations of Ohio Medicaid fraud

For weeks, DeWine has faced criticism from his fellow Republicans over allegations of widespread fraud in the state’s Medicaid system. It started with a report in the conservative outlet The Daily Wire, which accused home health agencies of fraudulently billing the system that pays for healthcare for low-income and disabled people.

A photo shows a man with glasses standing at a podium. The wood-grained podium has a sign that reads: “The Great Seal of the State of Ohio.” Behind him is an American flag and a flag of the state of Ohio.

Death penalty politics

DeWine’s change in position seems little more than symbolic. Republican leaders in the Legislature support the death penalty. There is no movement ready to put it on the ballot.

In this Aug. 29, 2014 photo, rows of servers are lined up at BlueBridge Networks in Cleveland. The company, which has a data center near Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland a larger facility in suburban Mayfield Heights, is one of the growing number of data centers are choosing to locate in and around the city.

Ad targets Husted on data center support

This week, we discuss the race for the U.S. Senate and Sherrod Brown’s slightly risky new ad, where he takes on Jon Husted and data centers.

5 years after Fang Fang recorded Wuhan lockdown, 2 of her books are being translated

Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.

A detail of a portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust, as seen in March 2009.

Christopher Marlowe Officially Credited As Co-Author Of 3 Shakespeare Plays

Oxford University Press will list both William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as co-authors of the three Henry VI plays in its newest complete edition of Shakespeare's work.

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