In case you missed it… Early voting for the special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District got off to a “surprisingly strong” start yesterday, with Danny O’Connor holding rallies across the district and aggressively courting voters who have supported Gov. John Kasich. From WSYX-TV: “People are making homemade yard signs, just doing everything they can

In case you missed it… WCMH-TV has confirmed that now-defunct Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) used your tax dollars to PAY students to attend graduation AND take state tests. Former ECOT students told WCMH they were paid a DAILY STIPEND to take multi-day tests. ECOT’s school policies confirmed these claims. This strategy must not have

COLUMBUS — Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine’s abrupt recusal from the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) case creates new questions about donations the DeWine family took from donors connected to the defunct for-profit charter school. “We may never know what caused Pat DeWine to recuse himself so late in the game, but the DeWine

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Democratic Party is expanding its communications team, adding Rachel Coyle as press secretary for the 2018 election cycle. “With a toss-up special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District happening in a month, a toss-up race for governor, critical statewide and legislative races being targeted by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and

In case you missed it… Early voting opens on Tuesday for the special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, and the Danny O’Connor for Congress campaign got two big boosts this weekend — a CNN profile comparing his race to the PA-18 special election where Conor Lamb won a deep-red district and a stunning endorsement

Latest Incident Illustrates How Ohio Continues to Be Epicenter for Hate Group Activity COLUMBUS — The same week that an Ohio man pleaded not guilty to hate crime charges in the Charlottesville car attack that killed Heather Heyer, materials from an “openly, unapologetically fascist” group that sprung up in the wake of Charlottesville were found

In case you missed it… Nexstar is reporting that state Rep. Kristina Roegner — who is running for a promotion to the Ohio Senate — and a number of her Republican colleagues in the Ohio Statehouse are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME will “embolden” lawmakers to make Ohio a so-called

COLUMBUS — Today Mike DeWine flat out abandoned his role as Ohio’s “top cop” by cutting and running on the biggest scandal in Ohio’s history — the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow defrauding Ohio taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. When asked Monday why he didn’t rein in Republican rainmaker Bill Lager, DeWine’s attorney general’s

In case you missed it… The Columbus Dispatch editorial board this weekend noted “Democrats in the General Assembly… appear to have been right” in their contention that Statehouse Republicans “[buried] the contents of the reform bill” to address the growing Chartergate scandal and crack down on online charter schools like the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.

Breaking News Stories Show a Pattern of Repeated Failures; DeWine’s Office Claimed Cocaine Was “Pure Fentanyl” COLUMBUS — Either Mike DeWine is asleep at the switch or he is deliberately failing Ohio’s hard-working men and women in law enforcement — maybe both – but one thing is certain: he does not deserve a promotion, as