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    Voters cast their ballots on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 at Elda Elementary School in Ross. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Ohio legislature bans ranked choice voting
    Rep. Tom Young, R-Washington Twp., hosts a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, to promote a bill meant to strengthen the state's enforcement of Senate Bill 1. AVERY KREEMER / STAFF
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    Local lawmaker pushes bill to cut university funds over DEI noncompliance
    Approximately 150 female inmates were transferred from the Dayton Correctional Institution recently as the facility grapples with the lowest level of correctional officer staffing in Ohio. STAFF
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    150 female inmates transferred from Dayton prison amid staffing shortage
    FILE - This Sept. 19, 2014 file photo shows Chairman and CEO of Victoria's Secret parent L Brands Les Wexner touring the exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
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    Ohio politicians distance themselves from Wexner campaign donations
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    Business leaders, politicians react to Supreme Court decision shutting off one avenue for...
    State Representative Rodney Creech speaks during a meeting with Butler County Commissioners to discuss property taxes with state legislators and other elected officials Monday, June 24, 2024 in Hamilton. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Local GOP House lawmaker given back committee posts after sexual misconduct allegations
    Legrand officials and well-wishers celebrate the opening on the its Union distribution center on Feb. 23, 2023. STAFF
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    Owner of local distribution center under state microscope for job creation incentives
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    ‘Life-changing decision’: Data center growth fuels fears in local communities
    
                        FILE – The sun sets behind power lines in Gaithersburg, Md., Oct. 23, 2020. (Samuel Corum/The New York Times)
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    Data centers driving up regional electric costs, study finds
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    Video: Passions run high as local town grapples with data center fears
    Bobby Angst, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 648 — which covers Butler County and much of Warren County — said proposed data centers represents hundreds of jobs for local unionized electrical workers. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Data centers get big tax breaks. Do they create jobs?
    Ohio State Rep. Willis Blackshear, Jr., D-Dayton, speaks at the Ohio House Democrats' Gun Violence Prevention Summit on Feb. 16, 2024.
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    Ohio lawmakers show bipartisan support for data center legislation
    The Great Miami River runs east of the city of Trenton, which could see a 1 million-square-foot data center. The data center would have to use city of Trenton water 100% of the time. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Impact of data centers on regional water supply ‘an emerging issue’
    Congressman Mike Turner speaks to delegates following the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Monday, May 26, 2025. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF
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    Turner, California lawmaker push back against Trump tariffs
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    Consumers office urges state to reject $189M in coal plant electric charges
    Rep. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington, /as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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    Ohio Republicans press for action in Congress on ‘SAVE’ Act
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    Local GOP senator credits ivermectin for treating his cancer, wants it available...
    Rep. Andrea White, R-Kettering, delivers a press conference on Feb. 5, 2026, touting her new bill that would streamline and modernize how law enforcement entities and courts report criminal data back to the Ohio attorney general. AVERY KREEMER / STAFF
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    Area House rep touts bill to modernize, streamline Ohio’s criminal reporting system...
    Several Montgomery County Sheriff's Office cruisers were staged outside Fuyao Glass America in Moraine Friday, July 26, 2024. FILE / STAFF
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    Ohio’s U.S. senators and senate hopeful express concerns about Fuyao
    The Ohio Statehouse in May 2023.
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    Ohio GOP bill would defund public school districts that fight voucher expansion
    Viles Dorsainvil, the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Community Help & Support Center in Springfield, spoke at a community event in Springfield on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in support of extending temporary protected status for Haiti. Dorsainvil and his brother are plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's cancellation of TPS for Haitians. He stood next to Geoff Pipoly, lead counsel in a federal court case in Washington, DC. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF
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    Haiti TPS: Judge denies stay request, says DHS has Springfield TPS holders’ addresses
    Aerial view of homes in the Dayton View Historic District with Dayton skyline in the background Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. NICK GRAHAM VIA DRONE/STAFF
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    ‘You can’t just hoard homes’: State lawmaker, Trump call to curb investor home buying...
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    In Dayton-area ‘hotspots’, investors bought up 30% of homes, new Fed data shows
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    Sherrod Brown in Dayton: Cost of living crisis hurting Ohio businesses, big and small
    FILE — Thomas Jefferson’s annotated copy of the Declaration of Independence, on display in “The Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures” at the Manhattan library, Jan. 28, 2019. Leonard Polonsky, a philanthropist who funded the arts and helped make significant historical artifacts and documents available to the public, including Sir Isaac Newton’s early papers and a letter from Christopher Columbus’s maiden voyage, died on March 14, 2025, at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
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    Lawmakers urge Ohio students to read, discuss Declaration of Independence for US’s 250th...
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    TPS Haiti: Attorneys for Haitians push back on DHS request to let protections expire as...
    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine addresses reporters in Columbus on Feb. 5, 2026. AVERY KREEMER / STAFF
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    Report: Nixing Ohio property tax could lead to 15% income tax, 18% sales tax
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    Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine ‘happy’ with court decision blocking Haiti TPS designation
    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine addresses reporters in Columbus on Feb. 5, 2026. AVERY KREEMER / STAFF
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    Gov. DeWine, Ohio lawmakers back legislative push to address data centers
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    Is DHS investigating voter fraud at Dayton school? Voting advocates question feds’...
    Tony Hall talks to the Dayton Daily News Thursday July 14, 2022.
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    Tony Hall turns focus to child labor in the mining of cobalt
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