Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

OhioRegister

16 Jul 2025 — 1 min read

Headlines hand-picked by TOR staff for week of 7/16/2025

1. Group backing Vivek Ramaswamy urges New Yorkers to flee to Ohio - Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer

2. Meta to invest over $60B in AI data centers, starting with 'Prometheus' in Ohio - Skye Jacobs, Techspot.com

3. Ohio House has veto override session next week, but no date set yet for the Senate to return - Karen Kasler, The Statehouse News Bureau

4. Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is purging workers who had status revoked under Trump: including in Ohio - Gustaf Kilander, The Independent

5. New Ohio law to require adult websites to verify users’ ages - Ava Boldizar, NBC4 Columbus

6. Clermont County alternative sentencing program tackles substance abuse - Marlena Lang, WCPO Cincinnati

7. Big income tax collections push Ohio’s end of fiscal year balance to $1b over estimates - Karen Kasler, The Statehouse News Bureau

8. Ohio governor forms new property tax reform group after vetoing legislative fixes - Jay Shakur, WCPO Cincinnati

9. Ohio religious leaders react to IRS relaxing its stance on churches endorsing political candidates - Jo Ingles, The Statehouse News Bureau

10. Ohio private schools don't have to follow the new student cellphone ban. Some are anyway - Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer

11. Medicaid work requirements, rural hospitals: What 'big beautiful bill' means for Ohio - Haley BeMiller and Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer

12. Ohio lawmakers put fate of state’s E-check program in Trump administration’s hands - Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com

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Chesterland Residents Start Petition To Overturn Fire Station Zoning

Chesterland Residents Start Petition To Overturn Fire Station Zoning

BY JEFF SKINNER CHESTER TWP - On Monday, August 25, Chester Township trustees voted 2-1 to rezone a specific parcel of property, namely the location of the old Fire House 2 structure, to industrial. Kayleigh Varga, the owner of the property directly next to the fire house lot, is now

Not Just Tax Dollars: Big Data Is Out For Ohio’s Water, Too

Not Just Tax Dollars: Big Data Is Out For Ohio’s Water, Too

BY NICK ROGERS STATEWIDE - As giant, Generative Artificial Intelligence-supporting data centers continue to proliferate in Ohio, the narratives tend to center around job creation, economic benefit, possible electric grid strain, and the increasingly large tax breaks awarded to tech behemoths like Amazon and Google to lure them to the

Chester Trustees Vote To Rezone Fire Station Property for Industrial Use

Chester Trustees Vote To Rezone Fire Station Property for Industrial Use

BY JEFF SKINNER CHESTER TWP - Chester township trustees hosted the second portion of the public hearing regarding the plan to rezone and eventually sell the property that currently houses the old Fire Station number 2. The village hall was once again filled with residents anxiously anticipating the trustee vote

Findlay Mayor Loses Her Cool When Flood Mitigation Vote Gets Delayed

Findlay Mayor Loses Her Cool When Flood Mitigation Vote Gets Delayed

BY PATTY KLEIN FINDLAY - What began as a routine Findlay City Council meeting on August 19 turned into a battle of wills. The first reading of a resolution to adopt an updated hazard mitigation plan sparked questions from Councilwoman Holly Frische. The plan is tied to a long-awaited grant