Medicaid is devouring Ohio’s state budget. Over-the-top rhetoric against Rep. Mike Carey for support of Big Beautiful Bill ...

The final version of the two-year spending plan has landed, and it’s packed with long-sought Republican priorities. Lawmakers eliminated the state’s top income tax bracket, collapsing Ohio’s tax ...

A new state budget proposal could reduce funding for Ohio’s libraries by shifting away from the current Ohio Library Fund, which allocates a percentage of state tax revenue annually.

The two-year, $60 billion operating budget sent to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine calls for flattening Ohio’s income tax and ...

The bill has come to be known by the GOP majority as the “Big, Beautiful Budget Bill.” Yet “beautiful” depends on perspective ...

After months of negotiations, House Bill 96 is headed to Gov. Mike DeWine for his signature, and perhaps some line-item ...

A 0.25% sales tax increase would generate roughly $13 million annually for the Lorain County Sheriff's Office, filling in ...

However, State Rep. Lauren McNally, D-Youngstown, voted against House Bill 96, calling it a "Republican-crafted" budget that ...

For decades, the state's Public Library Fund has distributed a percentage of the state's budget — currently 1.7%, or about $530 million in fiscal year 2025 — to libraries across the state. Gov.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines childcare as “affordable” if it costs 7% or less of a family’s annual income. Current costs are approximately 10.5% of median income from a ...

The 2026 fiscal year begins on July 1; lawmakers have until then to finish off the budget. Stadium funding skirmish. Ohio House Finance Chairman, state Rep. Brian Stewart, R- Ashville, kicked off ...

His biggest priority, however, was a provision that will move Ohio to a flat 2.75 percent income tax over the next two years at a cost of $529 million and $1.1 billion in tax revenue over the next ...