Sunday, December 1, 2024

Ohio State Wire

Report: Changes could make health care more affordable

Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Report: Changes could make health care more affordable

(The Center Square) – An Ohio policy group believes expanding medical providers, reducing fraud and increasing competition can make health care more affordable for Ohioans.

The Buckeye Institute recently released How to Make Ohio Healthcare More Affordable: A Public... Read more


Curiosity of Amish voting impact continues

Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Curiosity of Amish voting impact continues

(The Center Square) – The Amish vote received significant attention throughout the 2024 election cycle as Republican activists worked to mobilize the traditionally low-turnout group.

As the frenzy settles, curiosity about its impact continues.

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Group highlights impact of small businesses in Ohio

Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Group highlights impact of small businesses in Ohio

(The Center Square) – A trade association that promotes small businesses around Ohio and the country wants to highlight the impact of small businesses on their community as the holiday shopping season hits full swing.

The National Association of... Read more


Without title, proposal to end qualified immunity moves forward

Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Without title, proposal to end qualified immunity moves forward

(The Center Square) – Three months after turning away a proposed constitutional amendment that would end qualified immunity in Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost approved the proposal.

Yost accepted the untitled petition for the amendment after the Ohio Supreme... Read more


DeWine signs Ohio bathroom bill into law

Wed, 27 Nov 2024
DeWine signs Ohio bathroom bill into law

(The Center Square) – Schools in Ohio are required to have single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s bathroom bill into law Wednesday.

The bill, folded into a law that revamped the state’s College... Read more


Judge blocks rule giving Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama foreign farm workers bargaining rights

Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Judge blocks rule giving Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama foreign farm workers bargaining rights

(The Center Square) – A federal judge in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction that keeps the Biden Administration, for now, from enforcing a new regulation in four states that includes language allowing migrant farm workers to receive collective bargaining rights.

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Intel, feds reach deal on $8B in CHIPS money

Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Intel, feds reach deal on $8B in CHIPS money

(The Center Square) – After delays and lobbying from business groups around the country, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel announced a deal Tuesday morning to release nearly $8 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding.

The $7.86 billion... Read more


Ohioans have lower gas prices as holiday travel begins

Mon, 25 Nov 2024
Ohioans have lower gas prices as holiday travel begins

(The Center Square) – As the biggest holiday travel week of the year begins, Ohioans are getting a break at the gas pumps.

Prices are down nearly 30 cents from last year and more than $2 from two years... Read more


Ohio using $5M to push early-child reading program

Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Ohio using $5M to push early-child reading program

(The Center Square) – Ohio plans to spend $5 million to train early-care and early-education teachers to teach reading earlier.

The taxpayer-funded grants will go to child care centers, family child care homes, and school-age programs as financial incentives... Read more


House Republicans tab Huffman as new speaker

Fri, 22 Nov 2024
House Republicans tab Huffman as new speaker

(The Center Square) – The outgoing president of the Ohio Senate is expected to be the incoming speaker of the House of Representatives for the first time in more than a century.

Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, received unanimous... Read more


Study: AI and data centers could drive cost of energy up by 70% over 10 years

Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Study: AI and data centers could drive cost of energy up by 70% over 10 years

(The Center Square) — The average American’s energy bill could increase from 25% to 70% in the next 10 years without intervention from policymakers, according to a new study from Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jack Kemp Foundation.

According... Read more


Ohio fares poorly against other states in tax competitiveness

Thu, 21 Nov 2024
Ohio fares poorly against other states in tax competitiveness

(The Center Square) – Local income taxes continue to burden Ohioans and leave the state ranked well below average in a recently released competitive tax report.

The Tax Foundation scored the states and the District of Columbia for five... Read more


More Ohio taxpayer money going toward brownfields, demolition

Wed, 20 Nov 2024
More Ohio taxpayer money going toward brownfields, demolition

(The Center Square) – Ohio continues to pour taxpayer dollars into demolishing buildings and cleaning up brownfields across the state.

More than $55 million will go to communities throughout Ohio in the seventh round of funding through the Ohio... Read more


Economists believe sliding benefit scale more beneficial

Tue, 19 Nov 2024
Economists believe sliding benefit scale more beneficial

(The Center Square) – Some Ohio economists believe income requirements for public benefits stunt career advancement for low-income workers.

Columbus-based Scioto Analysis recently surveyed 19 economists from around the state. All believed a “benefits cliff” created by strict income... Read more


Ohio betters nation in reduction of overdose deaths

Mon, 18 Nov 2024
Ohio betters nation in reduction of overdose deaths

(The Center Square) – For the second consecutive year, overdose deaths in Ohio have dropped and are better than the national average.

The Ohio Department of Health’s annual Unintentional Drug Overdose Report showed a 9% decline in verified overdose... Read more


Ohio Fairness Act in legislature for 15th straight year

Fri, 15 Nov 2024
Ohio Fairness Act in legislature for 15th straight year

(The Center Square) – Ohio Senate Democrats are pushing legislation in the closing weeks of the session that would make sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination illegal in employment, housing or public accommodations.

Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood,... Read more


Legislation would offer transparency, refunds for Ohio utility customers

Fri, 15 Nov 2024
Legislation would offer transparency, refunds for Ohio utility customers

(The Center Square) – Ohio utility customers could have an itemized, detailed list of their bills and receive refunds if charges are determined to be unlawful, according to two pieces of legislation before the Senate.

What Sen. Kent Smith,... Read more


Ohio law schools stop race-based scholarships, programs

Thu, 14 Nov 2024
Ohio law schools stop race-based scholarships, programs

(The Center Square) – Pressure from a Columbus-based policy group has forced five university-based Ohio law schools to stop race-based scholarship or internship programs.

The Buckeye Institute announced law schools at Cleveland State, Ohio State, Akron, Cincinnati and Toledo... Read more


Ohio attorney general wants lead in lawsuit against Washington company

Thu, 14 Nov 2024
Ohio attorney general wants lead in lawsuit against Washington company

(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost wants to take the lead in a class action lawsuit against a company he says misled investors and cost two state retirement funds to lose more than $75 million.

ZoomInfo... Read more


Ohio’s bathroom bill easily clears Senate

Wed, 13 Nov 2024
Ohio’s bathroom bill easily clears Senate

(The Center Square) – The Ohio Senate passed legislation Wednesday afternoon that would ban transgender students from using restroom facilities that align with their gender identity and multi-sex bathrooms at schools across the state.

The bathroom ban easily passed... Read more