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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.
Commentary & Analysis
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Ohio voters need 20/30 vision for the next round of redistricting
Republicans' 2010 REDMAP strategy shows how state legislative races years before a census can lock in decades of redistricting control.
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Data center debate exposes Ohio’s uneven energy landscape
Ohio law lets counties ban wind and solar projects and adds local votes and rules gas plants avoid, steering data centers toward fossil fuel power.
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Ohio lawmakers must prevent Kroger’s surveillance pricing scam
While 11 states and Congress advance surveillance-pricing bills, Ohio has introduced none, despite Kroger earning $500 million yearly selling shopper data.
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Ohio high school sports on the installment plan
Reynoldsburg charges $500 per sport in a district where most students are labeled economically disadvantaged, while neighboring Columbus charges nothing.
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Voting rights anniversary spotlights America’s enduring anti-Black contempt
Eric Holder and legal scholars trace 61 years of Voting Rights Act erosion to 2013 and 2026 Supreme Court rulings that stripped federal preclearance protections.
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Ohio has more history than it did in 1974. Ohio Village will, too
After a $20 million renovation, the living-history museum will expand beyond 1890 to cover World War I, women's suffrage and the Great Depression when it reopens next spring.
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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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Fracking is not ‘responsible development’ of Ohio’s state parks and public lands
22,000 fracked acres of Ohio public land since 2022 and four Washington County injection wells have been shut down over contaminated groundwater.
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Launching the Somaliland Ohio Association: Building a stronger, more engaged community in Ohio
Columbus City Council Member Mark Sigrist joined the July 18 launch, as new leaders Suubane, Fu.ad, Mohammad and Burale set priorities on education and business.
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Ohio government doesn’t have to ban speech on campus to silence it
A Kent State survey found a third of faculty already altered lessons under Senate Bill 1, which is also costing universities up to $2 million yearly to enforce.
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Ohio Republicans preach family values. When power is at stake, they abandon them.
Party leaders stripped, then restored, committee seats and endorsements for accused lawmakers rather than risk losing them in November.
