Texas and California are getting most of the attention on the redrawing of Congressional maps, but Ohio should be in that spotlight too. My Statehouse News Bureau colleague Sarah Donaldson talked about that on NPR this morning

Secret Service agents searched and read through Enquirer reporter Erin Glynn’s notebook, which included unpublished work product, during a security screening ahead of an event with Vice President JD Vance in Lima, Ohio, on June 24. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…

over in my hood today...🥰 dispatch.com/story/news/cri…

Sen. Moreno weighs in on Intel:

you can’t outdo the doer. sorry!

Really interesting quote from longtime Ohio labor leader Joe Rugola in this Jeremy Pelzer story about Sherrod Brown's decision to run for the U.S. Senate. cleveland.com/news/2025/08/s…

CRYSTAL BALL SENATE RATING CHANGE OH-SEN Likely R to Leans R with Sherrod Brown running again. We telegraphed this in the Crystal Ball last week when reports emerged that he was likely to run

labor folks in Ohio tell Jeremy Pelzer that Sherrod Brown will run for U.S. Senate:

some unregulated CBD, THC businesses also sell kratom and more in Ohio statenews.org/government-pol…

the fight is on. how redistricting could unfold in 8 entangled states npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-…

Gov. Mike DeWine tells me this a.m. the state will APPEAL this ruling to Ohio’s highest court. “the money is not there,” DeWine says: statenews.org/government-pol…

right now: organizers w/ various affiliations (including League of Women Voters, Ohio Education Association, etc.) are relaunching the Equal Districts Coalition ahead of Ohio’s mid-decade redraw of its Congressional lines

Ohio extends legal fight over undistributed $900M in COVID-19 benefits statenews.org/government-pol…

as fights about Congressional redistricting boil over in Texas and California, advocates in Ohio are readying their defenses against districts yet to be drawn by the GOP-majority legislature statenews.org/government-pol…

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine loves assigning task forces to tackle thorny problems dispatch.com/story/news/pol… via Columbus Dispatch

surely this will be good for the local news ecosystem

PSA for my Statehouse friends and enemies

Today at noon on 91.7 FM or wvxu,org: Ohio National Guard to D.C., scrutiny over voting machines, and more top stories - with ⁦Jessie Balmert⁩ ⁦Amanda Becker⁩ ⁦Sarah Donaldson⁩ Andrew Tobias⁩ ⁦⁦David Ferrara⁩ on #CincinnatiEdition wvxu.org/show/cincinnat…