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Ohio House approves bill requiring capitalism to be taught in high school financial literacy
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) – A proposal that would require financial literacy courses already mandated in Ohio high schools to include lessons on capitalism has passed the Republican-dominated Ohio… Read More
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Revised state rules on gender treatment say they’ll affect only trans youth in Ohio, not adults
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The first round of revised rules on gender-affirming treatments for trans youth in Ohio have been released, after public comment on them closed last… Read More
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Ohio lawmakers try to cap the cost of insulin again with bipartisan bills
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A million Ohioans depend on insulin to manage their diabetes. The federal government capped insulin costs at $35 in the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act… Read More
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A filing suggests that Ohio’s AG believes at least part of the six-week abortion ban is still constitutional
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking a Hamilton County judge deciding the legality of the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks to… Read More
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Proposed state rules governing gender treatment in Ohio could be released soon
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed rules on gender-affirming care for minors that could affect adults in Ohio are still being developed. Those are separate from… Read More
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DeWine shares few thoughts about a bill to add nitrogen gas to Ohio’s death penalty options
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s last execution was in July 2018, six months before Gov. Mike DeWine took office. Attorney General Dave Yost, a fellow Republican, wants to… Read More
![LGBTQ activists stand in the rain outside the Ohio Statehouse as the Senate debates overriding Gov. Mike DeWine‘s veto of House Bill 68](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-e1706294740840-900x422.webp)
An LGBTQ group says dozens of families are looking to leave Ohio because of the law on trans kids
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The ban on gender transition treatment for minors and on trans kids in girls’ sports will take effect in April, now that Republicans in… Read More
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Ohio’s Senate overrides a second veto and bans on local bans of flavored tobacco sales to become law
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — For the second time in less than a half hour, and the third time since he took office five years ago, Ohio lawmakers have… Read More
![The message "being trans is not a phase" was written in chalk outside the Ohio Statehouse after a protest over a bill banning gender transition treatments for minors in May 2022.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-e1704314835128-900x422.webp)
Ohio bans trans kids in sports and gender-affirming care for minors as Senate overrides veto
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A state law banning gender transition treatment for trans kids and prohibiting trans athletes from competing in girls’ sports will go into effect, in… Read More
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Ohio’s Supreme Court rules the cost for DeWine’s security detail at 2022 Super Bowl aren’t public record
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The amount of taxpayer money spent on the security detail Gov. Mike DeWine took to the Super Bowl in 2022 is not a public… Read More
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A senator tells Ohio’s university presidents to bring spending info with capital budget asks
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican senator behind the bill that seeks to address concerns conservatives have had about “cancel culture” and higher education has a request for university… Read More
![Voters line up in Columbus at Franklin County's early voting center on the first day of early in-person voting for the August special election.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-1-1-e1689194697607-900x422.webp)
A group resubmits its proposal to change some Ohio voting laws, including required voter photo ID
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A group that wants to get rid of new voting laws requiring photo ID and limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county has… Read More
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Ohio’s Supreme Court rules the state can freeze $8m in assets from Sam Randazzo
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the state can freeze $8 million in assets owned by Sam Randazzo, the former chair of the Public… Read More
![One of the lighthearted efforts by the Ohio Department of Transportation to get across safety messages to drivers - this one during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2019 reads "visiting in-laws? slow down. get there late.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-12-e1705371088581-900x422.webp)
Feds slam the brakes on funny electronic messages to drivers in Ohio and other states
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — It’s the end of the road for the funny, punny one-liners that the Ohio Department of Transportation has been putting up as electronic messages… Read More
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Ohio’s Republican-backed “bathroom bill” gets an update and another hearing, but no vote
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican-backed bill that says K-12 and higher education institutions in Ohio must require students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the… Read More
![Ohio Department of Education and Workforce director Steve Dackin talks about the new agency and his role on "The State of Ohio" on Jan. 5, 2024.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/oh-e1704650246886-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s new governor-appointed education director talks reading, vouchers and accountability
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) – The new Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is now almost three months old, and is assuming authority over academic policy powers that were… Read More
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2023 In Review: An ex-speaker and a GOP chair convicted, while new charges come in the Ohio nuclear bailout scandal
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — 2023 had a trial that had it all – money, power, secret recordings and a man who’d been one of the most powerful people… Read More
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2023 Year in Review: Ohio lawmakers get new district maps again, and more change could be coming
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gerrymandering was once again a watch word in Ohio politics this year, as lawmakers had to draw new maps to replace the ones used because… Read More
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Advocates warn Ohioans that scratch-offs may not be good gifts for kids
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There’s a warning out for Ohioans shopping for last minute holiday gifts: don’t stuff your kids’ stockings with scratch-offs. The Ohio Lottery’s holiday ads show… Read More
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Ohio opens up first electric vehicle charging station paid for by federal-private partnership
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In 2021, Congress and the Biden administration committed $7.5 billion for electric vehicle chargers to be built around the country through the National Electric… Read More
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House Republicans override veto of ban on Ohio communities from banning flavored tobacco sales
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — After a few weeks of wrangling for the needed 3/5 majority, Republicans in the House have overridden a veto on a provision in the… Read More
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Ohio’s Supreme Court digs into lawsuit from a diner injured by a bone in “boneless wings”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Should the sellers of food that’s advertised to be free of bones, shells, lactose or some specific substance be responsible if it’s not? That’s the… Read More
Ohio’s Attorney General says the six-week abortion ban is now unconstitutional, but the state Supreme Court case should go on
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The parties in the lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court over the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks filed arguments yesterday on how Issue… Read More
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Lawmakers still plan changes before Issue 2’s recreational marijuana law takes effect next week
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state’s new recreational marijuana passed by nearly 57% of Ohio voters takes effect next Thursday. Republican lawmakers have said they want to tweak… Read More
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Ohio’s Supreme Court votes along party lines to uphold maps giving supermajorities to GOP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — New House and Senate district maps approved unanimously by the Ohio Redistricting Commission will stand, after a late afternoon decision by the Ohio Supreme Court…. Read More
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