Statewide news stories impacting the heartland and beyond.
Healthcare
BY PATTY KLEIN STATEWIDE - Several bills that were written to remediate the damage done by COVID-era protocols, have finally made their way to the Ohio House and Senate Chambers in December of 2024. HB73 was written to protect patients from pharmacists declining to fill a prescription. Pharmacists regularly denied
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BY NICK ROGERS STATEWIDE - With the mad rush to electrify our nation’s transportation fleet, Governor Mike DeWine is looking to obtain $189 million in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funds under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This “Climate Action Plan” has been adopted by Ohio municipal governments and entities
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BY TOM HACH STATEWIDE - It has been evident for many years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging war to overtake the US. While this is a war where the weapons do not have physical bullets but it’s a war nonetheless. In this engagement, Americans must arm themselves
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BY MATT URBAS STATEWIDE - Current Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) announced to the Capitol Square press corps in Columbus on Monday that he was withdrawing from consideration for the Speaker’s gavel when the term of the next General Assembly begins in January
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BY MATT URBAS STATEWIDE - The Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 104 in legislative session today, which combined a previously-passed revision to the College Credit Plus program with House Bill 183, which requires bathrooms, changing rooms, lockers, and other such facilities designed for multiple users to be designated for a
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STATEWIDE - Ohio Representative Max Miller has introduced H.R. 8445, seeking to amend Title 38 to allow service in a foreign military, to be eligible for the same protections under USERRA And the Civil Relief Act. Currently, The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act protects U.S. Military service members who
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Four years have passed since the last engineered election in which evidence from across the country indicated multiple issues and irregularities occurred during the 2020 Presidential Election leading to obtuse outcomes. Many of these issues occurred in the evening hours where ballot dumps with only single markings were thrown into
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STATEWIDE - With polls seemingly all over the place, analysts have been missing nearly every mark in trying to understand where the voting public may stand and how this election may trend. Fortunately, there are hard metrics that can be used to take a sneak peak at where early voting
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BY PATTY KLEIN Several groups and individuals not satisfied with the official state efforts to ensure election integrity, have worked diligently to make sure voter rolls are accurate and that elections are secure and fair. These concerned citizens have called for banning electronic voting machines and close examination of voter
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By Nick Rogers CHARDON - On September 24, the U.S. District Court of Northern California issued a ruling stating that current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for drinking water fluoridation levels present an “unreasonable risk” to the population. The plaintiff’s victory, however – viewed by many as a major
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BY TOM HACH STATEWIDE - The election season, Ohioans will be voting on Issue 1. If passed, it will completely change the Ohio Constitution's provisions on how legislative districts for Congress and the Ohio General Assembly are redrawn every decade based on the US census. You can find
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STATEWIDE - With only a few short weeks to go before the upcoming election, the Department of Defense has quietly issued an update to their guidelines on ‘domestic operations’ and have outlined directives to authorize lethal force against American citizens, potentially in violation of the The Posse Comitatus Act. While