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Inconsistent Ballot Application Data Leads to Undercount of Disenfranchised Voters
By Rachel Dissell and Lucia Walinchus Haley Belisle, a recent graduate of Ohio Northern University, was baffled this spring when the Hardin County Board of elections rejected her application to vote absentee in the state’s presidential primary. The problem was her signature on the application: It didn’t match her voter registration signature. “When I originally…
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Sidebar: What You Need to Know to Vote This Year
How to register to vote: You can register online here: https://olvr.ohiosos.gov/ You can also download an application, print it, and mail it to your county board of elections. When to register to vote: To vote in the Nov. 3 election, your application must be received by mail, or delivered to the board of elections office,…
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Slideshow: Protest Art
By Sarah Riegel This slideshow is a sample of art drawn on buildings in Columbus’ Short North district. To read Eye on Ohio’s previous articles on police stops: Investigation: Blacks, black neighborhoods most likely to be traffic stop targets in Ohio’s 3 biggest cities Sidebar: Beleaguered Cincinnati agency probing stop complaints rarely faults cops Sidebar:…
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To Charge, or Not To Charge? You Decide
Regulatory proceedings have big impacts on how much Ohioans pay for their electric service. By Kathiann M. Kowalski How would you decide some of Ohio’s cases on electricity rates? Eye on Ohio, in a joint project with the Energy News Network, surveyed the biggest changes to the recent legal landscape. Each of the following problems…
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Ohio Supreme Court Deals Blow to Sales Designed to Take Advantage of a Property Tax Loophole
On Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that evidence of a commercial real estate transaction depends on the intent of the parties and the building transferred, not the structure of the sale. The court invalidated the “drop LLC” sale of 4121 Palmer Park Circle East, which would have deprived public coffers of about $273,000 a…
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Toxic Mercury Remediation in the Ohio River Hampered by Complicated Cleanup
By Jeff Brooks-Gillies Mercury flows through industrial wastewater into the Ohio River, and damages young brains. But the multi-state agency tasked with keeping the waterway clean hasn’t tightened controls on this pollution because it doesn’t have the authority to do so. While coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturers and other facilities along the Ohio River are…
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How Have Deregulation and Extra Fees Affected Your Energy Bill?
This calculator provides cost and/or savings estimates of how much money you may have paid (or saved) each month following retail electric deregulation. It’s based on data shared with Eye on Ohio and the Energy News Network from a study that looked at how extra fees and more competition have impacted utility bills. (Note, however,…
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Sidebar: Can an officer's perception of you alter your ticket? Biracial man's 'white' tickets dismissed, 'black' tickets sustained
Reporters from the nonprofit newsroom Eye on Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer and researchers from Stanford University’s Big Local News program examined police stops to assess how the three largest communities in Ohio use public safety resources and to identify possible bias in policing. By Max Londberg Jermiah Miller, a biracial man with self-described pale skin,…
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Sidebar: Beleaguered Cincinnati agency probing stop complaints rarely faults cops
Reporters from the nonprofit newsroom Eye on Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer and researchers from Stanford University’s Big Local News program examined police stops to assess how the three largest communities in Ohio use public safety resources and to identify possible bias in policing. By Max Londberg Cincinnati, like all cities, has an imperfect policing record. …
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360-degree video interactive: A journey to revitalization on an Ohio River tributary
By Jeffrey Boggess, Ariel Cifala, Bijan Fandey, Shae McClain and Mark Schoenster The Cheat River courses through one of the largest undammed watersheds in the eastern United States. The river forms from tributaries high in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia and flows northward to meet with the Monongahela River just before crossing into…
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