Statehouse

It was Happy Hour for the cultural left on Friday evening’s PBS NewsHour, as host Geoff Bennett celebrated with PBS’s St. Louis-based “communities correspondent” Gabrielle Hays on how progressives and pro-choice Republicans were…

Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw testified to the Ohio Senate Select Committee on Rail Safety on Tuesday, over two months after the February 3rd train derailment in East Palestine. Ohio state senators questioned Shaw over a wide range of…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Child inventors from around Ohio were at the statehouse Tuesday showing off their award-winning ideas, with more than 40 kids displaying their inventions. Some of the inventions were solutions to simple…

<!-- SHOW ARTICLE --> COLUMBUS (AP) — Officials are assessing water damage at the Ohio Statehouse after a pipe burst during freezing weather, sending water pouring into the Senate chamber, an…

NEWARK − The Ohio Senate honored State Sen. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, as a comedian, an iron man, a family man and a dedicated public servant on Wednesday, the final day of his 28-year tenure in the Ohio General Assembly.Hottinger…

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio House did not agree to Senate amendments to a bill banning trans…

By Andy Brack  |  The utter shellacking that South Carolina Democrats got in the 2022 midterms is just plain embarrassing. Unfortunately, they can’t blame it on a twisted redistricting of the S.C. House of Representatives by House…

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. [email protected] Democrats have suggested that the party’s big thinkers in Washington haven’t exactly flooded the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal court panel on Friday ordered Ohio to hold an Aug. 2 primary using the third set of Statehouse maps approved by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, despite a rebuke of the plan by the state's high court.The…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A frustrated Ohio Supreme Court rejected Republican-drawn Statehouse maps for a fifth time Wednesday, extending the string of GOP defeats in a redistricting process that has ground the state's legislative primaries…