Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
Given the amount of data center construction already in Ohio, the best economic deal going forward would be to require all new ones to use 90% renewable energy, a new cost-benefit analysis has found. The next-best deal would be to ban new construction altogether, it said. Ohio has the fourth-most data centers of any state, […]
Bayer is building a $2.2 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio, the company has announced. This will create 1,500 construction jobs and 600 highly-skilled permanent jobs “focused on developing the compounds that make Bayer’s medicines work,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said. “This is an historic win for Ohio,” DeWine said. “It is by […]
In these surreal times that try men’s souls, Ohio has come to a moment of reckoning. Early in-person voting and absentee voting by mail has begun. The midterm elections are a month away. The Nov. 3 referendum, in the middle of a presidential term, is essentially a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the status quo. You […]
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
When truck stops and gas stations erected their signs, they didn’t anticipate needing two digits before the decimal point. But an Ohio-based data analyst who used to work in the energy industry says it’s a distinct possibility that they’ll need to find one for diesel. As President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has continued, the […]
In Gaza, October 7, 2023, is viewed as the beginning of the genocide. Over the past three years, Israel killed over 74,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, but many believe that number is a vast undercount. The killing continues despite a so-called ceasefire that took effect about a year ago. “Every single aspect […]
Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East: Origins of a Genocide is the new book by Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discussing the crucial 12 days between Benjamin Netanyahu’s October 7 speech and Biden’s “rare” Oval Office speech on October 19. “October 7 was bloody, and it was horrific. … But Netanyahu and […]
Israelis and Palestinians are marking three years since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed, and around 250 were taken hostage. It was the deadliest such attack in Israel’s history, after which Israel immediately began bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 5,000 people by October […]
Israel Marks Three Years Since the Hamas-Led Surprise Attack on October 7, 2023, Israeli Forces Kill at Least Three Palestinians in Gaza, Houthi Militias Fire Drones and Missiles at the Aden International Airport in Yemen, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy Denied Access to U.S. Air Base in Qatar, More Than 250,000 People March in Student Protests […]
In a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed the brakes on $7 billion worth of corrupt construction contracts,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued […]
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May, in part due to cuts in global health investments, like the dismantling of USAID. Since then, over 8,000 cases have been recorded, […]
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