Education
BY STAFF CONTRIBUTOR PERRY - At the Monday, May 11 meeting of the Perry board of education, board members heard an update from the Wellness Committee on a recent conversation with Harvard environmental research on questions surrounding the proposed data center in the area. A significant portion of the committee
Geauga County Commissioners
CHARDON— Geauga County commissioners voted Tuesday to purchase the county library's administrative building for $3.2 million to house a new permanent senior center, advancing a long-delayed project amid questions about the price, taxpayer costs and timing. The 2-1 vote on resolution 26-066 authorizes the purchase of the
Healthcare
This Article was originally published on The Heartland Beat Just a few days ago a cruise ship containing passengers making poor life choices started popping up everywhere all at once. The reason? Two passengers decided to stand in a rat nest to bird watch before boarding, contracting a funny little
Statewide
STATEWIDE - On Thursday, without much notification, AG Dave Yost gave notice to the Governor’s office of his resignation to join the Alliance Defending Freedom as its Vice President of Strategic Research and Innovation. Now, DeWine has appointed an interim position that many are wondering could tie into state
Findlay
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Annexation and rezoning of the Shady Grove property in Marion Township remained a primary focus at the May 6 Findlay city council meeting. The project involves annexing approximately 45.9 acres and rezoning it to M2 (multifamily high-density) zoning to facilitate large-scale apartment development. While
smart meters
BY NICK ROGERS TOR: Jensen Silvis, an Akron-based attorney specializing in property law, estate planning, contracts, civil litigation, landlord-tenant, business formation, and criminal defense joins The Ohio Register for a second time. In our first interview, we discussed two Smart meter mandate cases he has taken on in collaboration with
Local
BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - On Monday, The Springfield commissioners met to hear an update from representatives from the newly minted ‘public-private’ partnership administration for Springfield 2051, a think-tank operation designed to guide city development, facilitated by contracted organization Future IQ. During the update, representatives Kevin Rose and Marta Wojcik
Election
CLARK COUNTY - As Clark County voters prepare for the May 5 Republican primary for an unexpired seat on the Board of Commissioners, the four candidates — Daren Cotter, Greg Koffenbarger, Mark Sanders and Victoria Sorg — are outlining distinct platforms on economic development, public safety, infrastructure and long-term resource management. Residents
Election
BY LIZZIE MARGOLIUS LICKING COUNTY - Licking County has five Republican candidates and one Democrat candidate running in the primary for county commissioner. County commissioner has long been one of those government positions that was highly overlooked until recently, with the expansion of things like data centers, solar fields, rapid
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BY JEFF SKINNER STATEWIDE - Federal health officials at the Food and Drug Administration knew of a more advanced statistical method to detect potential safety problems with COVID-19 vaccines in the nation’s primary adverse event reporting system but directed researchers to stop using it, according to internal emails and
This article originally posted on Substack of Patricia Burke Carter ‘Confident’ House Will Resurrect American Broadband Deployment Act This Congress On April 22, 2026 Communications Daily ran an article on H.R. 2289 with the headline” Carter ‘Confident’ House Will Resurrect American Broadband Deployment Act This Congress” stating that Rep.
PERRY VILLAGE, Ohio — Residents of Perry Village and Lake County are escalating their opposition to a massive seven-building data center campus proposed for a 215-acre site off Route 20, citing concerns over economic strain, environmental degradation, and a lack of transparency. The grassroots organization Conserve Ohio has organized a protest
SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield City Commission heard a pointed public comment period that highlighted resident frustrations over local governance, resource sales and city salaries which spearheaded the ongoing controversy surrounding the organized fire department ‘brownouts’ throughout the city and whether the commission is practicing sound financial management. During the informal public
BY JEFF SKINNER FINDLAY — Findlay City Council approved a 12-month moratorium on new data centers Tuesday night, giving city officials time to study federal, state and local regulations amid resident concerns over power demands, water use and infrastructure strain. The 9-1 vote on Ordinance 2026-42 came after a public comment
This Article was originally published on The Heartland Beat In the high-stakes arena of state governance, certain resumes seem almost predestined for the “crosshairs of history.” For Dr. Amy Acton, the path to becoming the face of Ohio’s COVID-19 response was paved not by typical political maneuvering, but by
In December 2025, The Ohio Register reported about Ohio grassroot efforts to stop HR 2289 from advancing in Congress. Today an urgent update was released by Environmental Health Sciences: next Monday this bill is advancing to a full House vote! Scroll down to learn more about how you can quickly
By Bernard J. Mutz Across the country, states are recognizing a simple truth: when a veteran returns home with a 100 percent service-connected disability, that sacrifice deserves meaningful recognition. One of the most common ways states do this is through relief from the property taxes on the home that veteran
PERRY - After a public records request by The Ohio Register (TOR), The Village of Perry has released the nondisclosure agreement between the village mayor, James Gessic, and Newport Equities LLC, the legal arm of Province Group, developer at the heart of the data center controversy in the village. TOR
BY STAFF CONTRIBUTOR COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new volunteer-driven effort called the Liberator List is aiming to help conservative candidates win Republican primaries in Ohio by creating a consistent, low-cost endorsement tool that builds name recognition among GOP voters. The Liberator List is designed as “an effective and low cost way
BY JEFF SKINNER FINDLAY - A local coward in Findlay mailed a nameless letter to a concerned citizen who spoke out against the closed-door data center meeting that council member Dan DeArment attended. Local Findlay resident Sarah Pugh, who previously ran a write-in campaign for Findlay’s fourth ward, spoke
PERRY, Ohio — Thursday night’s Village Hall meeting in this Lake County village of about 1,600 turned into a standing-room-only reckoning over a proposed data center that’s exposing just how lopsided these deals can get. The project wasn’t even on the April 9 agenda, yet public comment
