Child care providers: We like the $25K grant, love the free business coaching
Let’s Grow Outside serves about 100 families, some at its outdoor-based program at Joppa Farm and Forest School in Bedford. (Courtesy) Ellen Grudzien is the founder, executive director, accountant, and…
Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, in November 2023. States with the…
Tenant protections failed to gain traction in the Statehouse
A sign solicits renters on Colchester Avenue in Burlington in July 2022. File photo by Anna Ste. Marie/Vermont Public This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was…
More than half of states sue to block Biden Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students
More than half of states, all with Republican attorneys general, have sued to block a recent U.S. Department of Education final rule seeking to protect LGBTQ+ students from discrimination. (Getty…
Ohio medical marijuana companies prepare to apply for dual-use license to sell recreational
A marijuana plant in a flowering room, August 17, 2023, at PharmaCann, Inc.’s cultivation and processing facility in Buckeye Lake, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish…
Farm bill text released in U.S. House, setting up fight with Senate
Doug Goyings, a fifth-generation farmer in northwestern Ohio, received a USDA Rural Energy for America Program grant in 2023 to install a 288-panel solar array (at left) at his family…
The alleged ‘backdoor ties’ between retired teachers’ pension fund and investment firm
Graphic by Morgan Trau, WEWS. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit to remove two members of the retired teachers’ pension fund, stating they are participating in a…
Cleveland port’s ‘electrification hub’ expected to anchor progress toward net-zero emissions
A ship at the Port of Cleveland. (Photo by Tim Evanson / Creative Commons.) The Port of Cleveland is going electric. One of the Great Lakes’ largest shipping ports is…
An obscure provision of Ohio law could keep Biden off the ballot in November
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024, in…
U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to Israel
The U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed legislation last Thursday rebuking President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold some military assistance from Israel amid…