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Ohio politicians welcomed unregulated data centers by the hundreds. Ohio citizens are fighting back.
Ohio lost $1.5 billion in 2025 tax breaks to Amazon, Meta and Google, nearly 12 times projections, prompting DeWine to pause new deals.
Articles by Marilou Johanek
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America’s sunk so low, dishonor and disgrace don’t end political careers. Ohio politicians prove it.
A Politico poll found 72% of MAGA voters would still back a GOP candidate accused of domestic violence, as Trump and Ohio senators stay silent on Miller.
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Hate and racism toward Haitians in Ohio is mindless, pathetic, and weak
Springfield leaders scramble to plan foster care for 1,400 US-born children as TPS ends for roughly 15,000 Haitians facing possible ICE detention.
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Ohio citizens showed power by stopping state EPA approval for data center pollution of waterways
Trump had pushed Ohio EPA to expedite data center permits, and the scrapped plan would have let facilities discharge untreated wastewater with minimal inspection.
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Ohio US Sen. Bernie Moreno blows hot air over Canada wildfire smoke
Moreno's Senate bill to sanction Canada ignores climate research tying wildfire severity to accelerating global warming and vast, hard-to-fight boreal forests.
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Faith leaders are right to call on Ohio elected officials to protect voter rights and fair elections
Secretary of State Frank LaRose dismissed the clergy coalition as a publicity stunt while handing DOJ nearly 8 million voters' private data despite federal court rulings against it.
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Ohio State Fair will feature ‘Freedom Trucks’ passing off right-wing propaganda as American history
PragerU and Hillsdale College created the exhibits, which historians say omit slavery and Native American history while emphasizing Christian nationalism.
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‘Thousands of people are now going to die violent deaths,’ says attorney for Ohio Haitian community
A Sylvania lawyer's Supreme Court loss clears the way for mass deportations of 350,000 Haitians with legal status, despite his arguments about skipped safety assessments and racial animus.
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Ohio Gov. DeWine’s call to end the death penalty comes too late to have any impact. He knows it.
With six months left in office, DeWine's call faces GOP supermajorities who've already vowed opposition, raising questions about his timing and political motives.
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Facing historic unpopularity, weaponization of government for election chaos has started in Ohio
The FBI raided Cleveland's Ohio Organizing Collaborative, DOJ backed voter suppression, and GOP rushed a voter ID amendment to the ballot in under a month.
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Trump had his name slapped on JFK’s memorial. An Ohio congresswoman fought back and won
Judge Casey Cooper ruled Trump's name must be removed from the Kennedy Center, finding the board violated a 1964 congressional statute establishing it as Kennedy's memorial.
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If Ohio’s the election ‘gold standard,’ why are lawmakers going for desperate, duplicative changes?
Ramaswamy and GOP lawmakers introduced a constitutional amendment duplicating Ohio's 2023 voter ID law, fast-tracking it to the November ballot.
