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More than three-fifths of property taxes fund public schools, with lesser portions funding fire and police departments, libraries, townships and city and county governments.

“A public school violates the Constitution when it promotes religion by giving special access to school property to a religious release time program,” Freedom From Religion Foundation states.

Ohioans for Cannabis Choice filed a petition for a referendum to repeal Ohio Senate Bill 56, which is set to take effect March 20.

A handful of education bills are still under consideration by state lawmakers.

They were protesting a masked ICE agent’s shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was behind the wheel of her SUV when the agent, Jonathan E. Ross, shot her from point-blank range.

The case centers on whether or not North Canton had the right under Ohio’s probable cause standard to inspect a rental property, despite the fact that the owner declined the inspection.

The department announced the first measles cases of 2026, three children from Northeast Ohio. The state health department said all the children were unvaccinated at the time.

In yet another sign of exploding inequality, a new data analysis finds that while affordability is an urgent issue for average Ohioans, the richest Americans keep getting richer. A lot richer.

Republicans and Democrats have drawn their lines in the sand when it comes to where they’d like the state to go on reproductive rights, but the GOP supermajority certainly has the edge when it comes to hearing bills on their side of the aisle.

Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati are in the top 11 in terms of how big a bite medical expenses take out of their incomes.