Ohio lawmakers spent much of the past year noodling and enacting changes to property taxes, and they say they aren’t done. The instinct is sound. The property tax regime requires repair, especially in ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com. The key issue of this year’s Ohio General Assembly? Reelection.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ideas, like all living things, have ancestors. When an idea is on trial, ancestral research is essential. In law, it’s called ...

As restorative justice scholar Danielle Sered has argued, accountability is not simply about what a person is punished for, but who they are accountable to. I witness this firsthand each week. I teach ...

In a new antitrust lawsuit, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accuses nine multistate cannabis operators — including several operating in the Mahoning Valley — of engaging in anticompetitive conduct to ...

With Ohio’s May primary approaching and the 2026 midterm elections already on the horizon, this moment demands attention − not complacency. Ohio’s democracy is being tested. Political division has ...

Today marks one year since I took the Oath of Office to serve as one of Ohio’s U.S. Senators after JD Vance left the Senate to become the Vice President of the United States. As I reflect on that ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com. The three most important races for statewide office this year are ...

When former Congressman Tim Ryan announced he wouldn’t run for governor in 2026, he (probably unknowingly) set the stage for a historic and fascinating race. Unless someone else challenges Republican ...

A legal debate is underway in Ohio over whether the state constitution requires public funding for religious education. The argument stems from a claim by Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman regarding the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The three most important races for statewide office this year are for (a) governor; (b) a two-year U.S. Senate term; (c) secretary ...