Ohio news with the evasions stripped out.
Today in Ohio is a fast-moving Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer news discussion built around Ohio politics, courts, schools, taxes, utilities, and local accountability. Its panel style favors pointed questions, reported facts, and blunt civic judgment over polished neutrality.
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Today in Ohio is a Cleveland-centered news conversation with a low tolerance for political fog. The format is lean: a pointed setup, a reported answer, a quick challenge, then another story before the air goes stale. Its strongest episodes make state government feel tangible by tracing how a bill, court case, budget line, or agency decision lands on homeowners, students, local officials, and voters. The panel does not hide its skepticism. Data centers are not treated as abstract tech growth; they become questions about rural land, non-disclosure agreements, water, electric bills, JobsOhio, county commissioners, and whether residents were allowed to know what was coming. A school board dispute in Parma becomes a test of how Ohio law treats an elected official deployed for military service. Youth counseling legislation becomes a fight over licensed mental health care, volunteer chaplains, parental consent, and the creeping substitution of religion for science. Property taxes get framed as the product of choices lawmakers made, not a mysterious burden that simply happened to rise. The show also follows campaign money, including Senate Leadership Fund spending for John Husted against Sherrod Brown, with an eye for what national groups reveal by where they spend. Court and corruption stories stay in the mix, from the FirstEnergy bribery trial to long-delayed criminal proceedings. The conversation can be wry and blunt. It can also turn grave when the facts warrant it. The panel is not aiming for detached civics-class polish; it sounds like people arguing through the consequences of stories they know closely. That gives the show its edge. It explains the process, then asks why the process was built that way. It names the counties, bills, judges, agencies, and dollar amounts. Then it returns to the practical question underneath much of the coverage: who is being protected, who is being billed, and who was kept out of the room. For Ohio listeners, that makes the show useful as both briefing and pressure gauge.
Made for: For Ohio residents, Cleveland-area news followers, and politics listeners who want local decisions explained through laws, budgets, courts, schools, utilities, and voter impact. It also fits people who prefer skeptical newsroom conversation to ceremonial political recap.
What sets it apart: The show pairs reported detail with unusually plain civic judgment. It is less interested in repeating official explanations than in testing them against records, timelines, costs, and the people left dealing with the result.
Today in Ohio is a review and analysis of the week's news in Ohio by the reporting and editing team that brought you that news, the team at cleveland.com. Listen each day for perspective and inside information you can find no where else.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Today in Ohio makes state and local power legible by connecting policy decisions to their practical consequences across Ohio communities.
Today in Ohio turns state and local reporting into an energetic roundtable led by Chris Quinn, with contributors including Laura Johnston, Lisa Garvin, Laila Atassi, Layla Tassi, and Courtney Astolfi.
A property tax bill lands, and Chris Quinn's newsroom makes you ask who shifted the burden.
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Ohio's data center fight turns on whether ballot mechanics can carry a proposal with real political momentum.
Ohio's proposed data center ban has moved into the harder terrain where political energy has to survive ballot mechanics. Supporters can begin gathering signatures for a measure that would block new data centers using more than 25 megawatts of power, a cutoff framed as sweeping…
Property taxes, SNAP cuts, and spring-break chatter keep the hour moving.
Today in Ohio spends much of its hour on property taxes, balancing the strain on homeowners against the warning that voters could one day push to abolish property taxes altogether.
A hung jury, guarded GLP-1 talk, and a Cleveland film ending.
The episode stays tightly procedural around the FirstEnergy bribery case, following the hung jury after nine days of deliberation in the trial of Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling.
A stalled HB6 verdict and a sharp Cleveland lakefront argument, handled in a plainspoken local-news voice.
Today in Ohio opens on the FirstEnergy HB6 case, still deadlocked after eight days of deliberation. The hosts walk through the Allen or Howard charge, the simpler interrogatories, the 10 questions already asked, and the sheer size of a six-week trial built around 600 exhibits.
School funding, Ohio State scrutiny, and dirty-air politics all land in one brisk local hour.
The episode starts with the weekend No Kings protests, then pivots to a more immediate Ohio fight: school districts trying to get ahead of the possibility that property taxes will be abolished by voters by putting first-ever earned income tax questions on the May 5 ballot.
Paul Hoynes' Cooperstown honor anchors a brisk Cleveland roundtable that moves from sports pride to civic headaches.
Today in Ohio uses Paul Hoynes' 2026 Baseball Writers Association of America Career Excellence Award as a clean entry point into Cleveland sports reporting and civic pride.
A security firm's shutdown leads into Ohio disputes over licensing, marijuana money, and public accountability.
The episode opens with a concrete accountability story: a private security firm hired by Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shuts down after Cleveland.com reporting found unregistered guards and a guard arrested on federal drug trafficking charges.
Fast answers for complicated headlines.
Corruption explained through cases, systems, and consequences.
Canadian immigration law, from files to courts.
A private security firm hired by Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shut down after Cleveland.com revealed it employed an unlicensed guard accused of federal drug trafficking.
This episode discusses how society and law enforcement should handle school threats, focusing on recent false lockdowns in Ohio schools and the balance between transparency and preventing unnecessary anxiety.
The episode opens with news that Cleveland Guardians writer Paul Hoynes will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, following Browns writer Mary Kay Cabot's similar honor.
This episode discusses an ethics investigation into Ohio State Senator Brian Chavez over allegations that he used his position to advance oil and gas legislation benefiting his family's businesses.
This episode discusses Ohio's proposed Senate Bill 416, which aims to protect elected school board members from losing their seats when deployed for military duty, focusing on the controversy in Parma over board member Ashley McTaggart.
This episode discusses how Ohio laws allow governments to hide information about data center deals from voters, focusing on a case in Adams County where tech companies use secrecy and non-disclosure agreements to acquire land without public knowledge.
This episode discusses two conflicting bills sponsored by Ohio Representative Jonathan Newman that would restrict student access to licensed mental health care while introducing volunteer religious chaplains in schools.
This episode critiques Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's unilateral decisions to fund data centers with tax dollars, leading to increased electric bills, and questions his opposition to voter input on such matters.
This episode discusses the Republican Party's concerns about Senator Jon Husted's vulnerability in the upcoming Ohio Senate election, highlighting a $79 million spending plan by the Senate Leadership Fund to counter Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown.
Today in Ohio opens with a data-center ban petition that would block new facilities over 25 megawatts and needs 413,000 valid signatures from 44 counties by July 1.
Chris Quinn opens by saying Today in Ohio will be off next week for spring break.
Chris Quinton opens on April Fool's Day by promising no tomfoolery, then brings in Courtney Estolfi, Lisa Garvin, and Laura Johnston for a newsroom-style conversation centered on the FirstEnergy bribery case.
Today in Ohio opens on the FirstEnergy bribery case.
It opens on the weekend No Kings protests.
This episode discusses how Cleveland's wealthy sports team owners are seeking $105 million in public funds from a new state grant program for renovations at Rocket Arena and Progressive Field, highlighting aging infrastructure and financial struggles of the public landlord.
This episode discusses how Ohio Republicans are using Senate Bill 294 to effectively prohibit green energy projects by redefining terms and manipulating the siting board process without explicitly calling it a ban.
This episode discusses the imminent threat of deportation facing tens of thousands of Haitians in Ohio and nationwide as their Temporary Protected Status expires, with fears of ICE raids similar to those in Minneapolis.