Op-ed
BY DAKOTA SAWYER Columbus closed the books this year with roughly $1.2 billion more in tax revenue than anyone budgeted for: income tax collections ran about $699 million ahead of projections, sales tax another $520 million over. That's money Ohioans overpaid into the system at the exact
Election
BY DIANE BOGUSKI I attended a town hall meeting Saturday, August 15, 2026, hosted by Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in Columbus, Ohio. The main topic: DATA CENTERS. As I sat there listening to story after story, and there were many of them, of folks affected by the sudden onslaught
Op-ed
BY DAKOTA SAWYER When Larry Householder was sentenced to twenty years for the House Bill 6 scheme, Ohioans got the story they thought they understood. A Speaker of the House took $60 million funneled through a dark money nonprofit, rammed a billion-dollar nuclear bailout through the legislature, and went
Letters to the Editor
BY ROBERTA BALSER I am contacting you one more time and asking that you vote NAY on the two above Ordinances. My understanding of what the responsibilities of those elect to represent the citizens of Findlay and Hancock County is to do no harm, but instead do what is best
Op-ed
This article was originally published on The Heartland Beat In what has become a trope of late, city government officials have been rushing to avoid responsibility for selling out their constituents to data center development by shifting responsibilities to other parties. Whether through pushing decisions to ‘committee’ discussions or attempting
Education
BY LIZZIE MARGOLIUS In part one of this series, we went into detail about the various forms of taxes and taxes specific to Ohio. In part two, we are going to talk about state and local spending. This past summer, the Ohio General Assembly passed its largest budget to date
Op-ed
BY LIZZIE MARGOLIUS I’ll be honest. I had no idea how to even begin this article, and I wrote at least 3 drafts. Why? Because taxes are complicated and because there is A LOT to say about them. Historically taxes have been around for thousands of years and are
Op-ed
BY LIZZIE MARGOLIUS One cannot deny that Ohio has a long history of corruption. From city council members all the way up to the governor, Ohio is full of abuses. The most notorious abuse, by far, is the scandal involving House Speaker Larry Householder, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges,