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![Reps. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) and Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) testify in an Ohio House committee about a bill they are sponsoring that would create a pilot program that pays kids to attend school and graduate.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-e1707325435531-900x422.webp)
A bill to create pilot projects to pay Ohio kids to go to school and to graduate appears stalled
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill to establish pilot projects that could pay Ohio students to attend school and graduate remains in an Ohio House committee. And it… Read More
![A patient holds a vial of insulin during a news conference outside the Olde Walkersville Pharmacy, Sunday, July 28, 2019, in Windsor, Ont.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AP_19209621082357-e1575913034135-900x422.jpg)
Ohio lawmakers try to cap the cost of insulin again with bipartisan bills
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![A gavel sits upright on a table](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/shutterstock_1194443488-e1671468824492-900x422.jpg)
A filing suggests that Ohio’s AG believes at least part of the six-week abortion ban is still constitutional
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![The Kentucky Statehouse](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Kentucky_State_Capitol_-_DSC09141-e1519222997224-900x422.jpg)
Kentucky’s House boosts school spending but leaves out guaranteed teacher raises and universal pre-K
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-led Kentucky House endorsed higher school spending for education in its two-year state spending plan on Thursday but left out two of the Democratic governor’s… 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)
Opponents of the nitrogen executions bill cite Ohio’s ban on gas for pet euthanasia
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio outlawed putting down household pets by suffocating them with gas—or any non-anesthetic inhalant—less than a year ago, and all but a handful of… 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 lawsuit has been filed against Ohio’s attorney general over his rejection of an amendment to change election laws
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A group that wants to change election laws —including repealing some of them— s suing Attorney General Dave Yost in the Ohio Supreme Court… Read More
![Democratic lawmakers stand at a podium for a press conference.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/npr.brightspotcdn-e1706821976172-900x422.webp)
Democratic lawmakers continue their call to change Ohio laws to prevent corruption
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Democrats in the Ohio House continue to clamor for passage of bills they say would prevent future corruption with utilities, like what happened with… Read More
![The Kentucky Statehouse](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Kentucky_State_Capitol_-_DSC09141-e1519222997224-900x422.jpg)
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky offer legislation to regulate adult-oriented businesses
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers proposed making adult-oriented businesses off-limits within a block of places frequented by children as they offered legislation on Tuesday that includes a renewed effort… 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
![Attorney General Dave Yost at a news conference discussing alternative methods for carrying out executions](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-20-e1706722955927-900x422.webp)
Republicans want to introduce a bill that would add nitrogen gas to Ohio’s execution protocol
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two GOP members of the Ohio House, joined by Attorney General Dave Yost, said Tuesday they want to add nitrogen gas as a second method… Read More
![A gavel sits upright on a table](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/shutterstock_1194443488-e1671468824492-900x422.jpg)
The ACLU of Ohio says a lawsuit is coming soon over the law affecting trans kids
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The ACLU of Ohio said it’s preparing a lawsuit to try to stop Republican-supported legislation from going into effect that would limit health care… Read More
![The West Virginia Capito building as seen from across the river in spring](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/shutterstock_1301147023-e1672867302357-900x422.jpg)
West Virginia advances a bill that would require age verification for internet pornography
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — People in West Virginia would need to present some form of state-sponsored age verification before accessing internet pornography under a bill that advanced Monday in the… Read More
After Alabama conducts a nitrogen gas execution, Ohio may be poised to follow
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio politicians may be poised to consider whether the state might break its unofficial moratorium on the death penalty by following Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution of… Read More
![Coal magnate Don Blankenship is shown outside a federal courthouse in Charleston, W.Va.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BlankenshipSentence-e1676309005115-900x422.jpg)
Ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship couldn’t win a Senate seat with the GOP. He’s trying now as a Democrat
By: John Raby | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship, who lost by a wide margin when he ran for a U.S. Senate seat as a Republican in 2018,… Read More
![West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address at the state Capitol in Charleston on Jan. 11, 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ap23012066592768-db2b2b2f3d90abc99bd91c496982079632bba7a6-scaled-e1685560573498-900x422.jpg)
A bill decriminalizing drug test strips in opioid-devastated West Virginia heads to the governor
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would decriminalize all dtrug test strips used to detect deadly substances in West Virginia, the state with the nation’s highest overdose rate, is headed to… Read More
![Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost at a press conference announcing the settlement with Centene.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/yost_at_pbm_lawsuit_press_conf_pic_1_0-e1623703617982-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s attorney general rejects a voting-rights coalition’s ballot petition for a 2nd time
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coalition of voting-rights groups is vowing to fight on after Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection Thursday of petition language it… Read More
![Flavored tobacco products on store shelves](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-19-e1706205990564-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s Senate overrides a second veto and bans on local bans of flavored tobacco sales to become law
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![Former Ohio congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich announces his Independent candidacy for Congress](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24024594313017-e1706124036340-900x422.jpg)
Former Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich is running for a House seat again, this time as an independent
By: Associated Press
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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Wednesday that he’s running for Congress again, this time as an independent. Kucinich, 77, a former Cleveland… Read More
![The U.S Capitol is seen on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in Washington.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ap23314834206219-576ba8281a6580a8060e9bf9b68a54fccc4f69ee-scaled-e1700160092437-900x422.jpg)
GOP Senate contenders in Ohio face off for their first statewide debate
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The three Republicans vying to take on Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown this fall in Ohio’s competitive U.S. Senate race clashed bitterly in their first statewide debate Monday,… Read More
![The Ohio State University's William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library from the outside](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-15-e1706026967189-900x422.webp)
A senator tells Ohio’s university presidents to bring spending info with capital budget asks
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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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
![Chris Vodris poses behind the count of the Vapor House, which sells delta-8 THC products and vaping products](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-e1705949752991-900x422.webp)
An Ohio retailer says a delta-8 THC crackdown would ‘tear’ at business
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine wants state lawmakers to quickly crack down on sales of delta-8 THC and other “intoxicating“ hemp derivative products, and DeWine said… Read More
![Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, speaks the Rotunda at the Kentucky State Capitol during the swearing in ceremony of the Constitutional Officers.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24019754051547-e1705950342813-900x422.jpg)
A bill seeking to end early voting in Kentucky exposes divisions within Republican ranks
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams has forcefully pushed back against an effort to eliminate three days of early voting in the Bluegrass State, exposing fissures… Read More
![Rep. Gary Click (R-Vickery) testified to an Ohio House Committee about his bill to provide educational savings accounts to children in non-chartered schools](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/download-14-e1705693643438-900x422.webp)
An Ohio bill would provide savings accounts for kids attending non-chartered religious schools
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio House committee is considering a new bill designed to help those who don’t qualify for that money by allowing the creation of educational savings… Read More
![SNAP logo](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/UUFSO5DOS5DG7OU4GENNLUAOC4-e1553806445699-900x422.jpg)
West Virginia advances a bill to add photos to all SNAP cards, despite enforcement concerns
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A committee of lawmakers in West Virginia’s Republican-majority Legislature is advancing a bill that would require photo IDs to be added to the SNAP cards low-income… Read More
![Jacksonville, Ohio- Voters cast in their ballots.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Swensen_voting-1-2-e1492966382495-900x422.jpg)
A transgender candidate facing disqualification is now cleared to run despite omitting deadname
By: Samantha Hendrickson | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A transgender candidate vying for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House was cleared to run Thursday after her certification had been called into question for… Read More
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