Ohio targets fraud in Medicaid, SNAP programs with new legislation
The bill got surprising bipartisan support after Republicans scrambled to crack down on Medicaid fraud in response to a conservative news outlet’s reporting.
LATEST NEWS FROM SIGNAL STATEWIDE
Election 2026
Ohio will again send all voters absentee ballot applications as mail voting continues to plunge
A state spending panel voted Monday to approve spending $2.5 million on the universal absentee ballot application mailing, which Ohio has done in every even-year, general election since 2012.
Ohio property tax abolition campaign drops 2026 ballot bid
A leader with the Committee to Abolish Ohio Property Taxes said they’re instead targeting the November 2027 election after falling short of their signature gathering goals.
Sherrod Brown reprises an anti-war message in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race
The Democratic former senator is tying the war in Iran to rising gas and fertilizer prices as he challenges Republican Sen. Jon Husted in November. The tack resembles Brown’s approach in 2006, when he spoke against the then-war in Iraq and won a seat in the U. S. Senate.
GOVERNMENT
Ohio is giving Central State up to $29 million. It wants oversight of the campus facilities first
The state’s only public historically Black university, long battling financial challenges, is the only campus to receive this type of red tape around its funding.
EDUCATION
Will adding women’s flag football help save Wittenberg University?
Small, tuition-dependent private colleges like the Southwestern Ohio campus are increasingly turning to athletics to help bolster their bottom lines.
HEALTH
‘I trust Gov. DeWine’: Dr. Oz visits Ohio amid GOP pressure on Medicaid fraud
Oz praised DeWine’s moves to crack down on home health care fraud and met with GOP nominee for governor Vivek Ramaswamy.
STATE SIGNALS NEWSLETTER
Data centers get more Ohio tax breaks; lawmakers propose $3.7 billion capital budget
Ohio politics news and insights from the State Signals newsletter. Plus, new details on blogger’s arrest at the Statehouse.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Ohio sheriff to deploy helicopters for illegal marijuana grows with fresh $70,000 grant
The Ohio Controlling Board released money for the Ohio Attorney General’s office to contract with the Butler County Sheriff Office’s aviation unit to look for illegal marijuana grows.
NEWS FROM NOTUS
Senate Democrats Think They Have Leverage on SNAP Funding
The farm bill can’t pass without Democrats, and they have one major demand.
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Local news is in crisis. Across the country, including here in Ohio, the commercial news industry has been on the decline, leading to the loss of nearly three-quarters of journalism jobs since 2005, leading to less accountability, more polarization, and more government waste. With the volume of original reporting in Ohio communities reduced to a small fraction of what it once was, nonprofit news offers a path forward