What should the 1.8 million children who attend Ohio public schools be taught about the origin of life? On March 11 four panelists -- two proponents of evolutionary biology and two proponents of in  

Gearing up for a campaign season of playing David to the GOP's well-funded Goliath, Democrats have loaded their slingshots with allegations that Ohio Treasurer Joseph Deter is operating a pay-to-pla  

Early last year, State Rep. John Willamowski (R­Lima) introduced a bill that would prohibit the state from funding the post-secondary education of Ohio inmates. This bill, which garnered only   

An attempt by a group of citizens to change Ohio's handling of nonviolent drug offenders has forced Gov. Bob Taft to hastily pull out, dust off and fine-tune his long-neglected policies regarding th  

Gov. Bob Taft has violated state law in his effort to keep a drug-law reform out of voters' hands, according to the Ohio Campaign for New Drug Policies (OCNDP). A complaint with the Ohio Inspector   

This fall, the unsuccessful campaign to bring the Olympics to Cincinnati ran out of money. After Nick Vehr, president of Cincinnati 2012 Inc. the organization leading the effort, spent $5.5 million  

There's a family planning center in my neighborhood that performs abortions. Every Saturday morning, protesters appear to wave poster-size pictures of aborted fetuses and to yell slogans to the gene  

Both the Ohio and Michigan constitutions require the state -- not local governments -- pay for public schools. In a case that closely resembled DeRolph v. State of Ohio, the Michigan Supreme Court   

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a government watchdog, has examined conflicts of interest between the public and private lives of state lawmakers since 1998. In their ongoing report, "50 Sta  

The once integral role the government played in developing the Internet has shrunken dramatically. Mainstream acceptance and commercialization have greatly expanded the roles of the private sector a