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Ohio gets a failing mark on sex education policy from national group
Ohio's teen birth rate tops the national average as lawmakers push abstinence-focused mandates like the success sequence law and Baby Olivia bill.
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Ohio economists: Abatements may attract data centers, but is that a good thing?
One economist calls the incentives a race to the bottom with few local jobs, while another says Ohio's $2.3 billion likely bought data centers it would have gotten free.
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Ohio farmers are getting crushed by our politicians’ failure to fight for us
Ashland County farmer Joe Stimmell says Husted and Miller's war votes and tariffs pushed fertilizer near $850 a ton and cut cattle values by 20%.
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Ohio families are paying the price for the government-induced energy crisis
Analysis ties Sen. Husted's 14 votes and the Iran war to $2,175 in added costs per Ohio household this year, plus $190 more annually by 2035 from clean energy cuts.
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Doctors and hospitals to see lower Medicaid payments in three dozen states
A 2025 federal law forces 15 states, including Michigan, to cut Medicaid payments up to 25% by 2028, which researchers say could shrink patient access.
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Husted helped fuel Ohio’s data center boom. His consumer bill is built on Big Tech’s voluntary pledge.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta fought Ohio's binding cost-sharing tariff, then signed the voluntary pledge Husted's federal bill only requires states to consider adopting.
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Max Miller voted to block states from regulating data center development
The Ohio Republican representative voted for billions of dollars in tax cuts for companies building large AI data centers.
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Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration push for immigration detention
GAO found DHS wasted $2.85 million on unused Guantanamo tents and now plans to sell 7 of 11 warehouses bought for $1.07 billion in detention expansion.
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Ohio lawmakers turn their backs on public schools again
A Cleveland Heights education coalition says lawmakers sat on a $2.4 billion surplus instead of closing the Fair School Funding Plan's $2.75 billion gap.
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Circuit court allows Ohio BMV to require proof of citizenship for voter registration
The 2-1 ruling comes days before Ohio's registration deadline, with a Biden-appointed dissenter warning the majority created a Catch-22 for voters.
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Max Miller promised to protect taxpayers from ‘waste.’ Then taxpayers paid for an ad praising his work.
Twenty-two days after announcing plans to loan his reelection campaign $1 million, the Ohio Republican aired a taxpayer-funded radio ad featuring a constituent praising him by name. The ad ran just seven days before federal rules shut off such mass communications ahead of Election Day.
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Fact check: Ramaswamy claimed to ‘lead’ on gas tax relief. Acton beat him to it by nearly 7 hours.
The Republican nominee declared “Vivek Leads” after calling for a gas tax suspension hours after Amy Acton called for one.
