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Legislation to Tweak Ohio’s New Adult-Use Marijuana Law Continues to Be at a Standstill
The legislature is still crafting bills to govern how dispensary licenses are distributed and how tax revenue will be split
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Since 2019, Ohio Has Solicited Highway Safety Sign Message Suggestions From the Public. It’s Gotten More Than 4,300
Boy, do Ohioans want their fellow drivers to stay out of the left lane
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Campaign Finance Reports Show Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown Far Out-Raising Republican Candidates
The $6.6 million Brown raised in the most recent reporting period is more than triple what his challengers raised
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1988 Paris Township, Ohio John Doe Identified as David Kaziateck
Police in Portage County are left with more questions than answers at this time
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Ohio Placed More Than $7.65 Billion in Sports Bets in 2023
Sports betting brought in more than $936 million in total tax revenue and the rest of the money was paid out in winnings
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East Palestine Wastewater Galvanizes Community Against Injection Well Disposal
In Coshocton, more than 70 miles from East Palestine, wastewater from the accident has shed light on how little say local officials have in underground disposal
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A Record 447,793 Ohioans Enrolled in the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace in 2024
All three candidates in the Ohio Republican primary for Senate have expressed opposition to the Affordable Care Act
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Ohio, Pennsylvania Mark the One Year Anniversary of East Palestine Train Crash
“At first, you’re angry, but then you almost go into like a zombie state, when there’s no ramifications and nothing happens. You kind of give up and lose hope”
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Private Schools, Public Money: School Leaders Are Pushing Parents to Exploit Voucher Programs
Voucher expansions have unleashed a flood of additional taxpayer dollars to the benefit of families already enrolled in private schools. In Ohio, some schools are now “strongly encouraging” parents to apply for vouchers, regardless of need or income.
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Op-Ed: Ohio Attorney General’s Push to Revive the Death Penalty is Untimely, Unseemly, and Unnecessary
Yost is woefully misguided in pushing Ohio to follow suit with Alabama by adopting nitrogen hypoxia for capital punishment
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ODJFS Issues Overpayment Fraud Letters to Some Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Recipients
The deparment paid $7.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits and received 2.7 million claims for PUA, but later identified millions of those dollars that were dispersed as fraud.