A week after passing proposal, Cincinnati Public Schools board to reconsider earned income tax
A tax on the money you earn from work is the focus of a contentious debate at Cincinnati Public Schools.
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Passing legislation the lame-duck way is just so much easier than regular Ohio lawmaking with hearings
Wednesday, June 10, was to have been the Ohio General Assembly’s last session before its summer recess. But an anticipated data-center deal on House Bill 646 — that the Ohio Senate had already informally passed to address data centers’ excessive tax breaks — fell apart at the last minute when a number of House Republicans…
Right-to-repair farm equipment deal a major win for Ohio farmers
Farmers have been fighting for the right to repair their own equipment for years. Under President Donald Trump, they’re finally winning.
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Should Ohio keep subsidizing trillion-dollar tech firms?
Artificial intelligence is not a passing fad. Data centers will be as essential to this century as railroads, highways and airports were to earlier ones. And that means Ohio should welcome them.
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Public school buildings are the people's property
In another swipe at public schools, now pending in Ohio’s House is a Senate bill, passed in June with only GOP votes, to force the state’s 600-plus school districts to offer for sale unused buildings to private schools, not just – as under current law – to charter schools.
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