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Good morning Ohio!
While federal, state and local Republican leaders are concerned about the allegations against Ohio Congressman Max Miller, losing a key U.S. House seat is also top of mind.
Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller, at podium center. (WEWS file photo.)
By Morgan Trau, WEWS
These allegations and Republican infighting have led to one question: where is the line in believing accusations when an election is at risk? The increasing tension in Ohio’s 7th U.S. Congressional District race is worrying local Republican officials.
By Sam Gauntt
The U.S. House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday that it will review allegations that Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio may have “engaged in domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use.”
By Susan Tebben
From helping her grandmother on an Alabama plantation, to her career in the banking industry, and now as the mayor of Maple Heights, the Democratic candidate for Ohio Auditor of State has spent her life in the pursuit of learning, she said in a recent interview.
By Morgan Trau, WEWS
A well-known family in Cleveland is suing Ohio Statehouse leaders for rescinding grant funding. Lawmakers took away millions from Bobby George because he, at that time, was charged with attempted murder, rape, and kidnapping.
COMMENTARY
The Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
By Marilou Johanek
The hatred and racism toward working Haitian families in Ohio is mindless, pathetic, and weak, putting all Black and Brown-skinned people in danger. This frenzy of mindless cruelty must end. From Springfield to Miami, humanity must trump hate.
STATELINE
The big challenges and policy issues that cross state lines.
By Alex Brown
As millions of acres burn across the western U.S. some wildland fire veterans are fearful that aggressive fire suppression tactics ordered by the Trump administration — coupled with extreme, fast-moving blazes — could put firefighters in danger as conditions escalate.
By Kevin Hardy
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this weekend implored states and cities to cooperate with federal immigration officials, which he said would lead to safer and lower-profile arrests and deportations.
By Mukta Joshi
Amid a national surge in arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of the largest ICE facilities in the country has become so crowded that people have been sleeping on makeshift beds on the floor, according to detainees there.
THE RUNDOWN
News from other states
By Lilo H. Stainton
Trump’s demand for states to provide Social Security numbers, immigration status, and other private information on low-income residents who receive cash benefits is improper and unconstitutional, a group of mostly Democratic-led states alleges in a new lawsuit.
NATIONAL NEWS
By Jacob Fischler
States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
By Ashley Murray
Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general appeared on track Monday after he submitted a written assurance to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to pay pardoned violent Jan. 6 defendants is dead.
By Ariana Figueroa
More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire.
By Jacob Fischler
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to advance a bipartisan measure to keep the federal government funded through Dec. 11 and pause the Trump administration’s effort to add controversial new criteria for federal grants.
WEDNESDAY WISDOM
“We all know nations that can be identified by the flight of writers from their shores. These are regimes whose fear of unmonitored writing is justified because truth is trouble. It is trouble for the warmonger, the torturer, the corporate thief, the political hack, the corrupt justice system, and for a comatose public.”
-Toni Morrison
CATCHING OUR EYE
The Libertarian candidate for governor. Cleveland.com’s Jeremy Pelzer reports, “Ohio governor candidate calls for ‘immediate moratorium’ on new data centers.”
Libertarian gubernatorial nominee Don Kissick on Tuesday called for an immediate moratorium on every Ohio data center project that has not already broken ground, until state lawmakers establish permanent statewide standards for the controversial facilities.
“Ohioans need room to breathe, and the land rush ... should stop until permanent statewide standards are in place,” Kissick said in a release. “The rules should be clear before construction begins—not negotiated project by project."Vivek’s ‘winners and whiners’ speech. In an opinion column for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Ray Marcano writes, “Ramaswamy will be haunted by 'winners or whiners' deplorables-like speech.”
Some campaign events are so cringeworthy that you feel for the candidates. In Vivek Ramaswamy’s case, his last speech on July 31 in Cincinnati belongs in the hall of fame of embarrassing political performances.
He got booed off the stage by college students after off-putting remarks infuriated what should have been a friendly crowd. And when the crowd turned on him, he tucked tail and left.Not dropping out. The Akron Beacon Journal’s Stephanie Warsmith reports, “Trump calls Rep. Max Miller as pressure mounts for Miller to drop out.”
President Donald Trump called U.S. Rep. Max Miller Monday, with pressure mounting for Miller to drop his re-election bid. Miller says he's still in.Springfield layoffs. USA Today’s Alex Perry reports, “Layoffs in this Ohio city could affect more than 1,300 workers.”
International Motors LLC plans to sell its Springfield operations to Roshel Inc. in October 2026. Nearly all of the 1,341 employees at the facilities are expected to be terminated upon the sale's completion.
The facilities are not closing, but it is unknown if Roshel will rehire any current employees. This event marks the largest mass layoff reported in Ohio in the last five years.Aug. 4, 2019. The Dayton Daily News’ Greg Lynch reports, “7 years ago today, a shooting in the Oregon District changed our city.”
Seven years ago, nine people were taken from their friends and family in a brutal attack on a crowd in Dayton’s Oregon District. The shooting that also injured dozens happened the night of Aug. 4, 2019.
THE POD
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