The Ohio Senate is preparing to deliberate a House-passed measure to prohibit Ohioans from using food stamps on "sugar-sweetened beverages" when the higher chamber takes up state budget considerations ...

The House version of the budget had many significant changes from the governor's original budget. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress ...

The impact on school district stability could be immediate and significant if bogus 'property tax relief' plan passes.

A provision folded into an over 5,000-page budget bill would eliminate elections for county coroners, with industry professionals citing concerns the proposed change could ...

More than a dozen states are seeking federal permission to add work requirements to their Medicaid programs. Three states — ...

The Mississippi Legislature adjourned without passing a $7 billion budget or a local project funding bill. Disagreements between the House and Senate, particularly over local project funding and a ...

The Ohio Senate is expected to unveil its version of the state budget by early June. One local Republican says the Bengals ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has pledged to do everything in his power to protect Minnesotans from the chaos that he says ...

Organizations that support the arts and arts funding are optimistic that there will be some money in the coming year's budget ...

Ohio is lacking more than 264,000 affordable rental units, according to a new report.

Ashville, testifying in the Ohio House. (Photo by Nick Evans,.) ____________________ In particular, Stewart and state Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. [email protected]. Officially, it’s called Amended Substitute House Bill 96. The way ...