The Ohio Supreme Court for the third time rejected Republicans’ state legislative maps after finding Wednesday that they unconstitutionally favor Republicans over Democrats. The 4-3 ruling stated that the maps violated redistricting rules voters approved in 2015 as a state constitutional amendment. Specifically, the GOP-backed plan has 26 districts where …
Read More »What Really Happened at Ohio University When Kaitlin Bennett Showed Up?
On Monday afternoon, Ohio University first-year Anya Bartek was in class when she found out that Kaitlin Bennett — a right-wing personality known as Kent State Gun Girl for posing with an AR-10 rifle at graduation — was set to appear at her school to ask students questions about Presidents’ …
Read More »Who Are Ohio's Anti-Heroin Vigilantes Helping?
Listen to an audio version of this story below: By the time Shannon Scaletta was 25, she had lost her mom, dad, and sister to addiction. At eight, her father died of a cocaine overdose. At 20, her mother was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for killing a …
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