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A proposal for an Ohio nuclear development authority that failed to pass three times before is now tucked in a 5,000-plus page budget bill.

A broad-based coalition of Iranian-Americans and human rights activists met with Ohio state lawmakers in Columbus in late April, requesting they take punitive action against Oberlin College for employing a pro-Iranian regime religious studies professor

Mahallati denied the allegation that he covered up crimes against humanity in Iran when he was Tehran’s ambassador to the UN between 1987-1989.

The House has to pass the controversial resolution by May 10 to make the Aug. 8 ballot.

The Ohio General Assembly looks to us like an endless train derailment more than a deliberative, responsible legislative body.

Bottom line: Ohio Citizen Action supports the peoples’ right to peacefully assemble and speak for or against pressing issues in our state. HB 109 unnecessarily interferes with the protest process in Ohio, and must be stopped.

On the one hand being term limited will reduce the governor’s clout but on the other hand it gives DeWine more freedom than if he were facing reelection, Thomas Suddes writes.

It’s 5:30 a.m., and the state representatives are growing restless as they wait for the final piece of legislation they need to vote on before adjourning

A "Yes" vote on Issue 4 supports the 10-year ban on industrial wind development. A "No" vote would overturn the ban, clearing the way for Honey Creek.

Business news from Richland County and Ohio.