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Donation came from utility behind massive bribery scandal

Tags: Ohio News, FirstEnergy, Jon Husted, Carducci, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Householder, FirstEnergy scandal

Another defendant, lobbyist Neil Clark, died by suicide in 2021.

Tags: Ohio News, FirstEnergy, Ohio bribery scandal, Sam Randazzo, Gov. Mike DeWine, Public Utilities Commission

New court filing gives new details about aide, husband

Tags: Ohio News, Sam Randazzo, FirstEnergy, FirstEnergy scandal, Ohio bribery scandal, Mike DeWine

Some allegations address Householder’s actions after the feds arrested him in 2020

Tags: Ohio News, Larry Householder, Ohio politics, First Energy, FirstEnergy scandal, Ohio political scandals

Kroger, Walmart and Amazon are still doing it, FTC says

Tags: Cincinnati News, Kroger, FTC, trade laws, grocery revenue, grocery profits, Kroger profits

Those most likely to have licenses suspended due to debt are the ones most likely to have jobs requiring them.

Tags: Ohio News, license suspended, license suspended Ohio, expired license, child support

D.C. Stephenson was both a fraud and a born salesman. But he was also something much more sinister.

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio Capital Journal, Black History Month, Ohio KKK, Ohio Klan members, Indiana KKK, Indiana Klan members, D.C. Stephenson

Yost’s office wouldn’t answer when asked if the attorney general thinks it’s OK for Ohioans to file wildly false financial documents repeatedly and over the course of a decade.

Tags: Ohio News, Dave Yost, Donald Trump, Trump lawsuit, Ohio Attorney General, Ohio Republicans

Since 2009, Ohio’s leadership has gone along with a number of questionable tax rate hikes demanded by regulated utilities.

Tags: Ohio News, First Energy Ohio, tax rates Ohio, tax hikes, increasing taxes Ohio, Sam Randazzo

The number of guns floating around seems to have played more than just a coincidental role in rising deaths.

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio gun deaths, Ohio gun laws, unregistered firearms in America, gun laws in Ohio, gun legislation

The connections between FirstEnergy and the incoming administration of Mike DeWine and Jon Husted were strong.

Tags: Ohio News, FirstEnergy, FirstEnergy scandal, Mike DeWine, Jon Husted, Ohio bribery scandal

“This is just the first step in a process of making health care more equitable and more affordable to all Ohioans."

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio insulin prices, insulin prices, cost of insulin, Ohio insulin cap

“This indictment is about more than one piece of legislation. It is about the hostile capture of a significant portion of Ohio’s state government by deception, betrayal and dishonesty.”

Tags: Ohio News, FirstEnergy, FirstEnergy scandal, Sam Randazzo, Dave Yost

Ohio Republican J.D. Vance has been taking some positions against so-called elites that would seem to be squarely opposed to… guys like him.

Tags: Ohio News, J.D. Vance, J.D. Vance Donald Trump, Donald Trump running mate, 2024 election

Ohio is not only suing companies under the same corporate umbrella as Express Scripts, but also Humana and Prime Therapeutics.

Tags: Ohio News, Express Scripts, Humana, Prime Therapeutics, Dave Yost, Ohio Capital Journal

Many economists say relying too heavily on such taxes serves to make the poor poorer.

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio taxes, Ohio tax rates, Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, federal income tax

Words have meanings. And they can have consequences, as it turns out.

Tags: Opinion, Dr. Egbert C. Smyth, French Canadians, Frank LaRose, French Canadian history, American immigration, America border crisis

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.

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio minimum wage, Consumer Price Index, minimum wage increase

Instead of reinvesting profits in research, equipment or in rank-and-file employees, companies often use a hefty chunk of that money to repurchase shares of company stock.

Tags: Ohio News, Ohio income, Ohio median wage, Ohio poverty line, Walmart median wage, Ohio income disparity

When I saw a newsman’s account of the newsroom of 90 years ago, I knew I had to read it.

Tags: Opinion, Ohio journalism, history of journalism, history of newspapers, New York Herald Tribune