Cleveland Plain Dealer: Statehouse legislators need to stop making ratepayers subsidize costly coal-burning power...
Using a procedural maneuver, Republican leaders in the Ohio House of Representatives last week stalled a bill to stop electric utilities from forcing Ohio consumers to bail out two costly coal-burning power plants, one of them in Indiana.
Toledo Blade: Replace speaker, Dems
It is outrageous that Ohio utility ratepayers continue to subsidize coal-fired plants owned by American Electric Power, Duke Energy, and AES Ohio as part of the bribery conspiracy to bail out FirstEnergy nuclear plants.
Youngstown Vindicator: Legislators thumb noses at Ohioans with proposed new limit to openness
State senators don’t seem to be worried about appearances as they sneak into their version of the Ohio budget a provision that specifies the OneOhio Recovery Foundation is not a state entity — and therefore is exempt from complying with public records requests, according to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal.
Elyria Chronicle: Ohio Senate gets a failing grade for most education changes
Not even the complete freedom from state control that Lorain Schools would gain under the Ohio Senate’s version of the state’s two-year budget is enough to make its approach to education policy worth recommending.
Columbus Dispatch: Anti-American bills will enslave minds of Ohio students
Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, news of freedom reached still-enslaved Black people in Galveston,Texas, on June 19, 1865.
Toledo Blade: Ohio rich & poor
The best of times-worst of times dichotomy made famous by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities is alive and well in Ohio.
Youngstown Vindicator: Ohio deserves hub for nation’s Space Command
Ohio’s pivotal role in rocketing the U.S. to the pinnacle of world leadership in space exploration and research cannot be minimized.
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram: In defense of Trump, Vance targets the Justice Department
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance wants the wheels of justice to turn even slower.
Sandusky Register: Remember these dates
They very well may be the most crucial votes in the state’s history: The Nov. 8 election and Aug. 8 special one-issue election to change Ohio’s constitution from a majority vote to approve new amendments to a minority vote to stop change.
Youngstown Vindicator: Ohio schools do well educating ‘whole’ child
Among the ways in which Ohio schools prepare students for life after their K-12 experience is implementing prevention-focused programs and supports. According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, school officials are doing an excellent job, as 95% of Ohio schools offer such programs and supports. The Ohio Department of Education’s 2020-21 Prevention Services Data Report shows that is an increase from the 2019-2020 report, in which 70% of Ohio schools offered prevention-focused programs and support during the school day.
