The barn on state Route 821, just outside of Marietta on the eastern edge of Ohio, is old.
Its gray wood panels are wide and full of holes. The left side was once painted with an ancient “mail pouch tobacco” advertisement. Years of bright sun have made the letters look almost transparent.
Last week Gov. Mike DeWine signed the two-year state budget. It included a line item that exempts the OneOhio Recovery Foundation from public records and meeting laws. The foundation oversees the spending of $1.1 billion of the state’s opioid overdose settlement money.
At a recent reentry court graduation in Mansfield, two men stepped up to the podium to receive a certificate and congratulations from Judge Phil Naumoff.
At the end of February, a pandemic-era boost to SNAP benefits, often called food stamps, ended, and around 600,000 Ohioans lost a chunk of t
Kelly Cunningham loves to cook.
Tonight, she has pasta on the stove. In her kitchen in Mount Vernon, 50 miles northeast of Columbus, she cuts up peppers for a pan of sizzling meat. She inherited this love from her grandmother – who passed down her recipes and her love of garlic salt.
But feeding her family of four has become stressful for Cunningham in recent months.
Ohio’s affordable housing problem is getting worse, according to data from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio.
But a team of researchers at Ohio University is working on a solution.
Taylor Swift is coming to Cincinnati. Not Columbus. Not Cleveland. Not Toledo or Dayton or Lima or Bucyrus. Cincinnati, and Cincinnati alone.
By making the Queen City the only Ohio stop of her Eras tour, she’s re-opened an old debate:
Which Ohio city gets the biggest concerts?
Nearly a quarter million Ohioans are paid less than the state or federal minimum wage, according to data analysis by Policy Matters Ohio.
At the Goodwill of South Central Ohio, employees who recently had babies sometimes struggle to return to work — not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t find child care.
Leaders in several Ohio cities have asked the state legislature to give local governments more control over speed limits, without much luck. But city officials in Cincinnati are trying a different approach. They argue a new interpretation of Ohio state law allows them to more easily lower some speed limits.
