Emilia Sykes

The new two-year state budget includes a 3% income tax cut, a new school funding plan and hundreds of millions of dollars for broadband, foster care, foodbanks and grants for businesses hurt by the pandemic. While the Republican-backed budget also included things that Democrats didn’t like, many of them voted for it.

With Ohio in the third week of COVID hospitalizations setting a new record each day, Governor Mike DeWine on Wednesday evening laid out two new health orders and previewed the possibility of a limited shutdown.

The state Controlling Board has approved distributing 420 million dollars in federal CARES Act monday to individuals and businesses struggling economically from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As Ohio hit another record in both coronavirus cases and hospitalizations Friday, Governor Mike DeWine and a group of Republican state lawmakers announced how the state will distribute more than 420 million dollars in federal CARES Act funding to people, operations and groups affected by the pandemic.

The leader of Democrats in the Ohio House is blasting a Republican controlled panel of lawmakers for its decision to deny a request by the Republican Secretary of State to pay for postage on mail-in ballots.

Democratic state lawmakers are pushing for legislation that phases-out EdChoice private school vouchers, which are based on public school performance.

A federal court has denied Ohio’s request to delay new congressional map drawing.

March 15 was the deadline for Governor Mike DeWine to release his two-year budget.

The election of Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder caused a shakeup among minority House Democrats. 

A controversial bill that bans abortion at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected is on its way to Governor John Kasich. 

Democratic State Representative Emilia Sykes wants Republican Governor John Kasich to help mediate her civil rights complaint. 

An African-American Ohio lawmaker says she's being treated differently than white lawmakers by the Ohio Highway Patrol troopers who handle security at the Statehouse, even when she wears her security badge and  pin marking her as a legislator.