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FBI agents raided the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a voting-rights group and questioned its members across the state.
Agents questioned volunteers and civil rights leaders looking for evidence of alleged voter fraud
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Kasich deal gave 40-year data center tax break to Amazon, Google
Ohio officials have approved data center tax breaks for 18 companies, including 40-year deals for Meta, Google and Amazon
by Haley BeMiller
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Please join us tonight Weds, 6/10 @ 6pm for the June Fair Districts-Fair Democracy Huddle
We’ll cover:
•The rushed attempt to put a Constitutional amendment requiring voter photo ID on the ballot
•The status of legal challenge to Ohio’s recently enacted SB 293
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Can the state tell cities they can’t ban certain things, or do cities have power to do that under home rule? The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments on that from a lawsuit filed against state by 21 cities over their attempts to ban sales of flavored tobacco & vapes
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio lawmakers’ first attempt to regulate data centers collapsed Wednesday night after House Republicans balked at a proposal to preserve part of the industry’s sales tax exemption.
by Anna Staver
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Critics and LaRose agree this mail-in voting bill is moving too fast
“The way this is written is very sloppy. It’s going to cause a lot of confusion for voters,"
-Jen Miller, LWV League of Women Voters of Ohio
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Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments in flavored tobacco ban case with home rule at the center
by Megan Henry
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Ohio officials are preparing to once again mail unsolicited absentee ballot applications to all of Ohio’s registered voters ahead of the November election.
The Ohio Controlling Board approved spending $2.5 million on the mailing on Monday.
by Andrew Tobias
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The Supreme Court is in its final stretch this term. Here are the major cases left
by Nina Totenberg
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Please join us Weds, 6/10 @ 6pm for the June Fair Districts-Fair Democracy Huddle
We’ll cover:
•The rushed attempt to put a Constitutional amendment requiring voter photo ID on the ballot
•The status of legal challenge to Ohio’s recently enacted SB 293
commoncause-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A sweeping data center bill died Wednesday as lawmakers, alarmed by the cost of Ohio's tax incentives, split over whether future projects should receive any sales tax breaks at all.
A bipartisan bill that started out as an avenue for Ohioans who are homeless to get free identifying documents like birth certificates and state ID cards has been fast tracked as it's turned into some...
The Supreme Court is heading into its crunch time, the part of the year when the justices are racing to finish decisions and dissents in the cases that remain undecided. Here's what's left.
The Ohio Supreme Court will decide if Ohio cities can ban flavored tobacco products — a ruling that could have wide-ranging implications for municipal home rule.
