State Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, appointed Chair of the House Community Revitalization Committee for the 136th General Assembly. The committee is a new one for the Ohio House. Click explained that there has been an Addiction and Community Revitalization Committee in the Senate, and he has been looking over legislation that the Senate has covered.

Senate Bill 1 would ban diversity, equity and inclusion courses in addition to the trainings. It also bans strikes by faculty and staff and reduces trustees' terms.

House Speaker Matt Huffman (R-Lima) rolled out chair and vice chair assignments Tuesday as the 136th Ohio General Assembly gets underway in Columbus.

Ohio GOP legislative leaders have said they want to revive a proposal to change relatively new recreational marijuana laws.

The Ohio House changed the rules for how it operates. We're breaking down what you need to know if you plan to visit the statehouse.

Ohio officials’ opposition to private solar and wind investments in service to oil-and-gas interests looking to their own bottom line is discouraging enough. Equally concerning, however, is the misleading information and outright lies being used by special interests to try to turn Ohioans against solar power.

With new raises coming to their pockets, Statehouse leaders are far more prepared to ready to party than do the people's business.

Among key points in the report, AFP-Ohio and the Buckeye Institute are encouraging lawmakers to axe power plant subsidies, particularly those for green energy projects, and loosen permitting restrictions so that transmission lines or other energy infrastructure can be more readily constructed.

Ohio House Republican leadership is doubling down on their threat to cut public school spending, with House Speaker Matt Huffman calling the continuation of the current Fair School Funding Plan a “fantasy” and eyeing $650 million in cuts.

Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Matt Huffman (R-Lima) has named State Rep. Brian Stewart (R-Ashville) Chairman of the House Finance Committee for the 136th General Assembly. Stewart will lead the 21-member committee in developing and enacting the state’s largest piece of legislation: a balanced biennial state budget.

Ohio lawmakers are early in negotiations on an omnibus bill overhauling energy policies. The ever-growing number of data centers statewide are part of the equation.

The GOP-controlled Ohio legislature is prepping to fast-track a sweeping higher education reform bill that would, among other things, block universities from offering DEI teaching in order to combat a perceived liberal bias on college campuses.