An electricity meter. (Stock photo from Getty Images.)Average Ohio residential utility bills are now projected to be about $800 for the summer, a new report says. That’s a 17% increase over the $682 Ohioans paid last summer, said the report, by Washington, D.C.-based Third Way. The estimates are of total average electricity costs from June…
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The U.S. Supreme Court, on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)In a case out of Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down limits on the amount of money political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates. Those limits had been in place since the 1970s and were created in response to corruption…
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Lettuce growing alongside a Solar panel array. (Photo courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Lab.)This story was originally published by Canary Media. Last year, Ohio legislators almost unanimously enacted a sweeping law meant to get energy generation online faster and meet surging electricity demand. The law, Ohio House Bill 15, is meant to be apply evenly to…
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On the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for the Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photo only with original story.)Ohio universities’ new centers created by Republican lawmakers to combat “liberal bias” aren’t popular with students, so now the Republican state lawmaker who authored the law that created them wants…
The Ohio Statehouse. (Photo by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal.)For public university professors in Ohio, the year 2025 was dominated by three words: Senate Bill 1 (SB1). Among other things, S.B. 1 created a mechanism to fire tenured professors who exhibit political bias in the classroom, and it included a list of “controversial subjects” that…