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Numeric news from Policy Matters 45.6%: Share of revenue collected into Ohio’s General Revenue Fund that came from the sales tax last year. That share has increased dramatically in the last 20 years, as Ohio leaders repeatedly cut the income tax (the only progressive tax in the state) and raised the sales...

In a collaborative effort, researchers from Louisiana State University, LSU, the University of Delaware, and Johns Hopkins University are embarking on a project that promises to vastly improve our understanding

A home in West Buncombe County went up in flames over the weekend.

The Ohio Department of Children and Youth and Ohio Department of Job & Family Services are looking to adopt two new rule changes that impact Ohio’s publicly funded child care and the rating system used for it.

With so much talk and debate on ditching the league finals, we’ve taken a look back at some of the best league finals from down through the years

Zaria Italian Street Eats and BrewRiver Sandwich Shop have joined the Madisonville food hall's dining roster.

Videos of people executing elaborate, logic-defying feats with household objects have found an avid following on social media.

$13B: Deficit that would be created in Ohio’s budget by twin proposals from anti-government extremist legislators who want to eliminate the state income tax and Commercial Activity Tax. Tax Policy Researcher Bailey Williams pointed out to News 5 Cleveland that the proposal would shift even more of the state’s already...

Numeric news from Policy Matters 6: Number of weeks since the last “biweekly” issue of Saturday Stats. We have some catching up to do! 273: On average, that’s the number by which you have to multiply the 2022 median worker pay at Ohio’s major corporations to find the median CEO pay at...

The increases are the consequence of a constitutional amendment passed by Ohio voters in 2006 that ties minimum wages to the Consumer Price Index — the federal government’s index of inflation.