Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. [email protected]. Officially, it’s called Amended Substitute House Bill 96.

Ohio lawmakers wanted to give children a healthy start by keeping them on Medicaid health coverage through their fourth birthday. Then, House Republicans reversed course. Two years ago ...

Owen, a bunny at Ohio House Rabbit Rescue in Clintonville, presses his nose against his enclosure. Large pens with rabbits are tucked everywhere at the Ohio House Rabbit Rescue in Clintonville. Most ...

Owen, a bunny at Ohio House Rabbit Rescue in Clintonville, presses his nose against his enclosure. Large pens with rabbits are tucked everywhere at the Ohio House Rabbit Rescue in Clintonville.

Officially, it’s called Amended Substitute House Bill 96. But the way ordinary Ohioans talk, it’s called “the proposed state budget,” and it’s pending in Ohio’s Senate. As passed by ...

The Ohio House’s version of the budget would eliminate the independent group charged with enforcing state campaign finance laws. With the Ohio Election Commission gone, those duties would fall ...

Advocates for Ohio public education have been fighting for the so-called Fair School Funding Plan to be continued in the next state budget. But Ohio House Republicans have nixed it in their version of ...