John Kasich

Ohio voters approved 60 percent of 137 local tax requests for schools on Tuesday. With legislators contemplating more changes to how Ohio funds schools and uncertainty about state aid the new normal for districts, the passage rate was 2 points higher...

Dozens of road construction projects are vying for a limited pool of state money that will get a boost this year from bonds issued against Ohio Turnpike revenue. Ten central Ohio projects are among the 69 applications before the Transportation Review...

Business investment in projects that would bring new jobs to the state and retain others has slowed in recent months, says the top executive of the state's private economic-development agency. "Business confidence remains soft," John Minor, JobsOhio's...

One of the more prevalent misconceptions at the Statehouse lately is that Medicaid is a broken system, and thus unworthy of expanding in Ohio. Actually, what is broken, as Greg Moody of the Governor's Office on Health Transformation explained to a House...

Ohio's tea partyers are an unhappy lot these days. They are upset with the direction of the Republican Party on several fronts, from Gov. John Kasich's push to expand Medicaid under President Obama's Affordable Care Act to U.S. Sen. Rob Portman's...

Supporters of a Medicaid expansion have talked about putting the question on the statewide ballot, a move Gov. John Kasich recognized while attending a mental health awareness event on Wednesday. "I'm for it, however we get there," Mr. Kasich said,...

Medicaid expansion supporters -- including representatives from Ohio Right to Life, Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Mental Health Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin counties -- are hopeful. "What we've seen over our advocacy over the past...

Ohio's top Medicaid officials spent more than an hour yesterday bringing House Republicans up to speed on program improvements but made clear one thing hasn't changed: The state still has 1.5 million uninsured people, and most of them are working....

Samuel Hamilton Porter, 85, an active member of the central Ohio legal community for 60 years, died Sunday after suffering a stroke three weeks ago. A native of Columbus, Porter graduated from Amherst College and, after a stint in the Navy, received his...

A decade ago, 1 in 10 Ohio 4-year-olds was enrolled in the state's public preschool program. Today, it's 1 in 50. Like much of the nation, Ohio has slashed enrollment and funding in public preschool for children in low-income families, according to...

Keith Faber, the Senate president, explained last week why his caucus had rejected the expansion of Medicaid as proposed by Gov. John Kasich. He also wanted Ohioans to know that he and his fellow Republicans were not ending the debate on Medicaid reform....

The Olander Park officials today finalized the purchase from the Sylvania School District of 40 acres of land that adjoins Sylvan Prairie park. The three Olander Park System commissioners unanimously approved the purchase for $600,000. The land, which...