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![A child care room has a rainbow on the wall with a pot of gold. There are cubbies to keep things up against the same wall. The tables nearby are well organized with cubs of coloring materials in them.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/child_care__credit_aleksander_krsmanovic__shutterstock.com_-scaled-e1659451504479-900x422.jpg)
Child care advocates praise DeWine’s proposed vouchers but say more needs to be done
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine said he wants to expand eligibility for vouchers for state-funded child care. During his State of the State speech, DeWine proposed… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine gives his 2024 speech to the Ohio General Assembly](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/download-34-e1712787405772-900x422.webp)
DeWine focuses on reading, health and kids in his annual State of the State speech
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine proposed a few new ideas and asked state lawmakers to follow through on some plans that were already in motion… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted lead a roundtable on phone ban policies, held at Dublin City Schools.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/npr.brightspotcdn-5-e1710446750490-900x422.webp)
DeWine says Ohio schools should consider phone-free policies for classrooms
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In the last few years, a contingent of Ohio’s middle and high schools enacted policies banning phones, and Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday he… Read More
![Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Dolan speaks to supporters during his primary election returns gathering, May 3, 2022, in Independence, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24071749209427-e1710193725348-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine bypasses Trump-backed Bernie Moreno with his US Senate primary endorsement
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio parted ways with Donald Trump on Monday and endorsed state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine takes questions from reporters](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/npr.brightspotcdn-10-e1708027707560-900x422.webp)
DeWine says “I wish we hadn’t appointed” former PUCO chair Sam Randazzo
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two former FirstEnergy executives and former head of the state’s utility regulator, Sam Randazzo, have pleaded not guilty to 27 state criminal charges in… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine speaks to reporters](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-e1706731311505-900x422.webp)
DeWine shares few thoughts about a bill to add nitrogen gas to Ohio’s death penalty options
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![Gov. Mike DeWine at a clear podium speaking to a crowd in Cincinnati.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-18-e1706113397160-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s Supreme Court rules the cost for DeWine’s security detail at 2022 Super Bowl aren’t public record
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![Gov. Mike DeWine holds up a Delta 8 product that looks like a small box of frosted flakes.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-e1705615563869-900x422.webp)
DeWine asks Ohio lawmakers, again, for regulations to get delta-8 off the shelves
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill that cleared the Ohio Senate in early December but has since stalled would significantly modify the state’s soon-to-be recreational marijuana program, and… Read More
![Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, right, speaks beside Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine during a news conference, June 2, 2022, in Avon Lake, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23332795456117-e1701290853228-900x422.jpg)
Documents of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and lieutenant governor subpoenaed in the lawsuit over HB6 bribery scheme
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s governor and lieutenant governor have been drawn into a FirstEnergy Corp. investors lawsuit connected to the $60 million bribery scheme concocted by the Akron-based energy giant and… Read More
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DeWine establishes a task force to look at Ohio’s youth corrections system
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state has formed a task force to examine, and propose solutions to, problems within the state’s juvenile justice… Read More
![Columbus-area residents Beth and Kyle Long head into the Franklin County Early Vote Center in the rain.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/download-10-e1698607050120-900x422.webp)
As Ohioans vote on Issue 1, DeWine hopes to thwart it by promising to relax six-week abortion ban
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Early voting continues for the Nov. 7 election, which includes Issue 1, the abortion access and reproductive rights amendment. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine says Issue… Read More
![Ohio Governor Mike DeWine talks about new distracted driving law in Delaware county at a podium with a state trooper over one shoulder and some older looking white guy in a suit over his right shoulder.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/download-1-e1696537664681-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s new distracted driving law is now in effect
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohioans who text and drive can now be fined for doing that. The grace period for enforcing the new distracted driving law passed back… Read More
![The state board of education building](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/dept_of_education_-_credit_kasler__4_-scaled-e1635527489786-900x422.jpg)
DeWine says the court order won by Democrats will stop some of education overhaul, but not all of it
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Department of Education is no more as of midnight, according to Gov. Mike DeWine. But he said part of the planned revamping… Read More
![Marijuana plants at Hepworth Farms in Milton, N.Y.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ap22229608902561-51ea4c62bae9b8da2bf310a882b9677445a67ac7-scaled-e1661877513924-900x422.jpg)
Marijuana legalization supporters say DeWine’s opposition is the same tired talking points
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is coming out strongly against the proposed citizen-initiated marijuana legalization statute that voters will decide in November. “It would be a mistake. And… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine signs SB263 into law on January 6, 2021.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mike_dewine_signs_sb263_010621_6-e1614904856802-900x422.jpeg)
DeWine backs off his earlier suggestion that lawmakers should change Ohio’s abortion policy
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday saidnow is not the time for the state to make changes to its abortion policy. That’s a contrast from… Read More
![Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (center, in red tie) speaks to reporters about signing the two-year state budget. Alongside him are (l-r): Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran, Office of Budget and Management Director Kim Murnieks, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, Ohio Department of Aging Director Ursel McElroy and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Director Lori Criss.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-2-e1688747134188-900x422.webp)
DeWine vetoes 44 items in Ohio’s two-year state budget, including some related to tax policy
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine used vetoes on 44 items when he signed the two year, $86 billion state budget after midnight on Independence Day…. Read More
![Newly elected House Speaker Jason Stephens (R) addressees the Ohio House from a podium.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-1-e1672865449642-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s House will vote on a one-week spending extension as the budget deadline is days away
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — It’s starting to look more unlikely that there will be a budget in place in time for the new fiscal year on Saturday. The… Read More
![Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Gov. Mike DeWine as he steps off Air Force One.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/download-4-e1686668813666-900x422.webp)
DeWine says ‘justice will be done’ in Trump classified docs case but doesn’t rule out endorsement
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine didn’t say much when asked about the charges against former President Donald Trump, who endorsed DeWine in his re-election bid… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine talking about his campaign in the Ohio Republican gubernatorial primary sitting in his home.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img-4140-scaled-e1664844047323-900x422.jpeg)
DeWine explains why he’ll vote for Ohio’s Issue 1 in August election
By: Jo Ingles | Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine said he plans to vote for a proposed constitutional amendment that could make it harder to pass future changes to the… Read More
![Ohio University's Cutler Hall on the first day of the semester.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OU-Image-scaled-e1599491277344-900x422.jpg)
Shorter terms for Ohio public university trustees in ‘free speech’ bill has DeWine concerned
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican bill designed to address conservatives’ concerns about free speech in higher education in Ohio includes a change in university governance about trustees… Read More
![A Death Penalty Bed with the straps fastened](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/death_penalty_bed_080219-e1632843529142-900x422.jpg)
DeWine declines to comment on the latest effort to overturn Ohio’s death penalty
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill to end the death penalty has been proposed many times in Ohio, and the one that was recently introduced in the Senate… Read More
![Traffic moves along I-270 in northeast Columbus at dusk](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/download-5-e1679069391866-900x422.webp)
DeWine signs the $13.5 billion Ohio transportation budget with no vetoes
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — No vetoes by Gov. Mike DeWine for Ohio’s $13.5 billion transportation budget, right on the March 31 deadline for it to be in place. The… Read More
![Vehicles drive along the Ohio Turnpike in Strongsville, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/AP_16232547160086-e1508256391854-900x422.jpg)
DeWine hints at a veto if speed limit increases are in Ohio’s transportation budget
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine is strongly suggesting that if his Republican colleagues in the legislature pass an increase in speed limits in the Ohio’s transportation… Read More
![Two smokestacks working at the Kyger Creek coal plant in Gallia County](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/download-2-2-e1678811252110-900x422.webp)
After House Bill 6 convictions, DeWine says lawmakers should repeal coal plant subsidies too
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine said he respects the process and the jury that convicted fellow Republican former speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party… Read More
![Crews work at the site East Palestine train derailment on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Toxic soil excavated from the site](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/download-1-2-e1678806470401-900x422.webp)
DeWine is frustrated at contaminated soil in East Palestine, as states with storage sites reject it
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The cleanup at the toxic train derailment site in East Palestine last month has stalled because Ohio is having trouble finding sites to accept… Read More
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