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Report: Ohio taxpayers hold a $1,600 individual burden
(The Center Square) – Ohio would need $1,600 from every taxpayer in the state to pay off all of its bills, a figure worse than a year ago, according to a new report released Thursday. Ohio ranked 28th and was given a “C” grade with a $1,600 burden per taxpayer in Truth in Accounting’s Financial State of the States report. Each year, the nonprofit group looks at the overall government...
11 Investigates: State agencies join Williams County cattle battle
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Sept. 3, inspectors from the Ohio Department of Agriculture and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency descended on Edon, in the extreme northwestern part of Ohio. It was the second visit to multiple farms in the region. For more than two years, a highly motivated group of...
Raw video: NBC4’s Colleen Marshall interviews Jim Jordan after rally
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — NBC4’s Colleen Marshall caught up with Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan after a rally for Congressional candidate Bernie Moreno on Thursday. The Get Out the Vote rally included Jordan as a special guest speaker. Marshall questioned Jordan after the event to ask him about the upcoming presidential election. She asked if Jordan […]
Northeast Ohio weekend weather forecast; Mild start, warmer finish
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The weekend kicks off with mild temperatures on Friday, along with a slight chance for scattered rain. The National Weather Service’s forecast calls for his in the mid 70s Friday, low 70s Saturday and all the way up to about 80 degrees on Sunday. Overnight lows will dip into the 50s each night.
'Picnic to picnic to picnic,' Ohioans to mark nation's 250th birthday
COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine has plans for July, 2026. “If the governor’s lucky, I’ll get to go from picnic to picnic to picnic...,” he said. “Who says it’s a tough job?” The governor and members of the Ohio Commission for the U.S. Semiquincentennial — America 250-Ohio — on Thursday announced plans for an Ohio Homecoming and Picnic to coincide with the month of the nation's 250th birthday that July 4. Communities across Ohio are being asked to plan now to host their own picnics sometime during that month — complete with food, games, music, and history lessons on Ohio’s role in the nation’s founding.
Ohio has purged thousands of voters. Watchdog says it has the worst safeguards
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has purged hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, saying doing so is important to protect “election integrity.” But a watchdog has found that while LaRose professes to protect election integrity, Ohio has poor safeguards against removing eligible voters from the rolls. By LaRose’s own accounting, fraudulent voting […]
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