Podcasts about Ohio, United States

On Today in Ohio, the cleveland.com and Plain Dealer panel takes up a petition drive to all but ban new data centers. A panelist sums up its chances in one sentence: the idea "has a lot of momentum, but the mechanics are brutal." That gap between public appetite and legal procedure runs through the discussion. A newspaper panel, an electric cooperative executive and a state representative on Cincinnati talk radio discuss data centers, prompting the question: when something enormous plugs into the grid and the water supply, who pays?

The argument is also running outside the studios. In September 2026, WOIO reported that proponents were presenting Cleveland's Lake Erie water supply as an advantage for computing facilities, while neighbors questioned the consequences for utility bills and infrastructure. The same month, AP reported that Democrat Sherrod Brown, who lost his Senate seat in 2024, was trying to defeat Republican Senator Jon Husted in November. Neither fight is presented as settled.

What a newcomer hears first, though, is sport. Ohio State's 24–23 loss at Texas in September 2026 was followed by an episode of the Land-Grant Podcast Network: An Ohio State University podcast, Off-Script Ohio: Recapping the Texas disaster and what comes next. Talk about the Buckeyes, Browns, Cavaliers, Bengals and Reds is part of the listening, and civic life often surfaces inside it. Many of these shows belong to Cincinnati and Cleveland, and each has its own page.

What Ohio is

Ohio is a state in the United States. It had an estimated 11,900,510 residents on July 1, 2025, and 40,858.76 square miles of land as measured in 2020. Cleveland has access to Lake Erie, and that water supply figures in those arguments over water and industrial development. Manufacturing is part of the state's economic identity.

Who pays: news, politics and power

Today in Ohio is the bluntest of the news shows. On One reason property tax bills are high today is that lawmakers passed a 2013 law to make them rise, a panelist argues that a decision made more than a decade ago shifted a chunk of the tax burden off the state and onto homeowners. The conversation also turns to a proposed natural-gas plant south of Piketon that would feed a data center. On Most jurors voted to convict the former FirstEnergy execs in the bribery trial, the panel lays out the hung jury, the Attorney General's promise to retry the case and a defense lawyer's insistence on his client's innocence. The case was still open at the time of that discussion.

The Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast approaches power from an advocacy group's side of the table. In Policy Engagement and Rising Power Demand, Craig Grooms of Ohio's Electric Cooperative says the industry "was really never set up to accommodate the size of loads coming on this quickly." He then describes the new rates and tariffs meant to charge data centers for their own costs. In Ohio Governor's Race: Dr. Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate proposes brownfields and old industrial sites as alternative locations. On Bill Cunningham on 700WLW, in Willie 3/19/26, Representative Adam Bird describes his bill that would bar local officials from signing nondisclosure agreements to keep a data center quiet. Snollygoster, on DeWine signs budget with 67 line-item vetoes, flags the $600 million drawn from unclaimed funds for a new Browns stadium in suburban Brook Park. Here, sports and public money share a ledger.

Cincinnati Edition, from WVXU, slows everything down. Its Hamilton County Commission debate, produced in partnership with the Cincinnati Enquirer, revisits a 1996 promise: 30 percent of a stadium sales tax was to return to homeowners as a property-tax rebate. A moderator tentatively puts the share commissioners approved at 4.5 percent. Candidate Herman Njoli objects that the conversations about the deal were "very private and behind closed doors." The show also interviewed both Democrats in the OH-1 primary, Damon Lynch IV and Rep. Greg Landsman. The Cincinnati page is available.

The teams, and the rooms around them

Buckeye talk comes at several speeds. Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast moves at depth-chart pace. After the spring game, its hosts compile a "dude's list" of standouts and rate the quarterback position about a 9.5 out of 10. The OHIO Podcast sounds like a tailgate with the microphones left on. On BUCKEYES RECEIVE THEIR GOLD PANTS!! the panel spars over Arthur Smith's first interview, and near the end the hosts head to Patreon for a round of Buckeye Jeopardy.

Cleveland's football shows differ most in who makes them. Orange and Brown Talk: Cleveland Browns Podcast comes from cleveland.com. Its Dueling Browns mock drafts: We make every pick … twice runs a draft simulator and has two panelists pick against each other, arguing as they go. Cleveland Browns Podcast Network carries programming produced by the Browns and 850 ESPN Cleveland, and it plays like it: room for a host's hole-in-one at French Lick and a visit from wrestlers Nic Nemeth and Matt Hardy.

Locked On Cavs - Daily Podcast On The Cleveland Cavaliers is the film-room option. Reviewing Game 1 against Toronto, Danny Cunningham warns that "it's one thing to play short it's another thing to play light," then explains why body weight shapes the rotation. The Cleveland Guardians Podcast works as a radio notebook. Its April 11, 2026 episode replays the play-by-play calls and marks Jose Ramirez becoming Cleveland's all-time leader in games played. The Cleveland page is available.

Cincinnati's sports talk stays close to home. Sports with strawberry ice frames its Bengals talk from Cincinnati's West Side. On Legal Tampering Begins: What's Next for the Bengals? the host greets chat participants by name before celebrating a pair of free-agent signings. The Cincinnati Reds Podcast keeps it clean. 3/26/26 Reds-Red Sox Game Recap covers a 3-0 opening-day loss in which Sal Stewart became the first Reds rookie since 1958 with three hits on opening day.

Land, work and the people who help

Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer tracks phosphorus leaving farm fields. In Ep. 40 Dr. Will Osterholz, the guest describes an edge-of-field record covering 40 fields and over 200 site years. The OTC Podcast Series is sponsored by a career-technical superintendents' association and promotes its members' programs. Even so, From Towers to Nursing: Diverse Opportunities at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center with Terri Lynn Brosseau holds a real story: a new mother who was homeless trains as a nurse aide, works weekend shifts, moves into practical nursing and is now studying to become an RN.

Youngstown Radio Reading Service, a station that reads newspapers and books aloud for people with visual impairments, uses its Good Community Podcast interviews to map local help. In GCP: The Way Station's Chaney Nezbeth, the executive director describes plans for rooms to be rented at a nominal fee to aspiring bakers and party planners, with coursework on business plans and taxes attached.

Pizza, ghosts and the long view

Pleasure gets a hearing too. All Sides with Amy Juravich spends The history of pizza in Columbus on tavern-cut squares and provolone, and on the East Coast outrage the square cut provokes. Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear revisits Buddy LaRosa and his sons to mark the pizzeria's 70 years in business. Hammer Down Racing Report, a weekly roundup of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan racing, gives away pies from "the pizza place formerly known as Big D's Pizza" in Clyde.

Unwell has the most unusual relationship to the state. It is an audio drama set in the town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, and its own credits say it is produced in Chicago. 5.12- Remaining includes postcards from Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo stuck to a fridge, and the line "A town need not have ghosts to be haunted."

Where to start

• If you follow the news: Today in Ohio, Can the Ohio data center opponents meet the deadline to get a ban on the November ballot? Listen for the distance between a popular idea and a ballot line.
• If you want local government up close: Cincinnati Edition, Watch: Commission candidates tout policy priorities, address criticisms in debate.
• If you care how the power bill gets split: Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast, Policy Engagement and Rising Power Demand.
• If Saturdays set your mood: Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast, What We Learned Live: Reactions following Ohio State's 2026 spring game.
• If you like to argue the draft: Orange and Brown Talk: Cleveland Browns Podcast, Dueling Browns mock drafts: We make every pick … twice.

The Ohio feed on this page plays clips from these shows.