Weekly News Roundup
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
