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Trump’s Tariffs Could Increase the Price of Ohio Craft Beer
Besides increased prices, the tariffs could also cause the closure of small breweries
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Ohio Budget Would Only Recognize Two Sexes, Excluding Transgender Community and Intersex People
“The budget is not the place where we should be discussing culture war or legislating against people’s rights,” said Equality Ohio Executive Director Dwayne Steward.
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All Stick, No Carrot: Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law Acts as a ‘One-Way Ratchet’ for Prison Time
Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with sentences extended at every turn.
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Browns Owners Gave Big Money to Ohio Lawmakers Who Now Look to Make a Risky Bet With Public Dollars
Meanwhile, lawmakers are slashing funds for education, libraries, and even infant mortality programs and pediatric cancer research
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Migrants in Ohio, Michigan and Elsewhere Scramble as Trump Changes the Rules
An Ohio-based organizer with the National Immigration Forum estimated that thousands in the Buckeye State are affected by the CBP One revocation
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Public Schools Could Have Less Property Tax Help Under Ohio House Education Budget
The plan would make school districts with reserves over 30% of annual operating costs give the remaining money back to property-tax paying homeowners. Some districts say that would lead to more levies and cuts
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ICE Approves Three Ohio Sheriffs to Enforce Immigration Law
One recently called undocumented immigrants “illegal human locusts.”
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Ohio Republican Senators Propose Eliminating Drop Boxes, Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voting
A University of Maryland study suggests more than 21 million Americans don’t have up-to-date citizenship documents on hand
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How Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law Keeps People in Prison Longer
It came as a response by lawmakers to a horrific crime. Now, thousands of people imprisoned since 2019 risk more time behind bars for breaking rules.
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Ohio House Advances its Two-Year Budget Proposal Including $600 Million for Browns Dome
“The only piece of this budget — that is big and complicated — that got the full breadth of the creativity of this body is a $600 million subsidy for billionaires who own a failing sports team,” said one rep
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Ohio Library Day Brings Fight for Library Funding Right to the Statehouse
Changes to House budget bill could restore Public Library Fund
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Trump Administration Revokes Visas for International Students at Various Ohio Universities
“The speech of people on student visas is still protected, but it doesn’t always protect their immigration status,” the Times reports on the legality of Trump’s immigration crackdown