Ohio Republican leadership has backtracked on their steadfast effort to cut funding for public education. Our extensive reporting led to massive backlash for lawmakers, and numerous GOP members spoke out privately.

House Speaker Matt Huffman (R-Lima) rolled out chair and vice chair assignments Tuesday as the 136th Ohio General Assembly gets underway in Columbus.

Ohio is without a lieutenant governor now that Jon Husted is a U.S. Senator.     Husted’s appointment to Washington came just two weeks ago, and now Gov. Mike DeWine needs to pick someone to fill the post.

States across the country have rapidly expanded private school voucher programs in recent years. According to reporting from ProPublica and The New Yorker, Ohio officials helped pioneer the push.

Gov. Mike DeWine must appoint a new lieutenant governor. Meanwhile, who'd step in as acting governor in the event he's unable to fulfill his duties?

House Speaker Matt Huffman thinks the incoming Trump administration will be much more favorable to the ideas Republicans have for reforming Medicaid and generating more electricity.

Ohio GOP legislative leaders have said they want to revive a proposal to change relatively new recreational marijuana laws.

Ohio officials’ opposition to private solar and wind investments in service to oil-and-gas interests looking to their own bottom line is discouraging enough. Equally concerning, however, is the misleading information and outright lies being used by special interests to try to turn Ohioans against solar power.

Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman. (Photo by Morgan Trau, WEWS.) Ohio House Republican leadership is doubling down on their threat to cut public school spending, with House Speaker Matt Huffman calling the continuation of the current Fair School Funding Plan ...

VICKERY – State Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, has been appointed by Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, R-Lima, as chair of the House Community Revitalization Committee. State Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, appointed Chair of the House Community Revitalization ...

Ohio’s state constitution contains term limits to curtail how long elected lawmakers can serve in the House and Senate. But this legislative session shows term limits work as well as bathing suits in Greenland. Matt Huffman (R-Lima) made history this session while illustrating the term limit absurdity.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, who just a month ago said he wanted to drastically change the state's marijuana law, has seemingly had a change of heart. He has backtracked on at least some of his proposed restrictions after having ...