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• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, June 19, 2026 June 19, 2026
  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 […]
• Ohio Legislative Black Caucus lawmakers criticize voter ID referendum in Juneteenth commemoration June 19, 2026
  Ohio Legislative Black Caucus lawmakers railed against a potential constitutional amendment on voter photo ID and defended an Ohio voting-rights group whose offices were searched by the FBI, in a news conference this week commemorating Juneteenth. Juneteenth recognizes the final emancipation of enslaved African Americans on June 19, 1865, at the end of the Civil […]
• Ohio proposed constitutional amendment to ban data centers will not be on this year’s ballot June 19, 2026
  Ohio voters will not have a chance to vote to ban data centers in the November election.  Conserve Ohio, the grassroots organization behind the proposed constitutional amendment, said they are now hoping to make the 2027 ballot. The amendment would prohibit building data centers with a peak load of more than 25 megawatts per month, […]
• National study gives Ohio positive marks on childcare, urges further work nationwide June 19, 2026
  A new national study of childcare policies gave Ohio positive marks for efforts being made to increase payments and assistance, but still urged more work on the part of states and federal agencies. The childcare field has been in what has been described by state and national advocates as a crisis as facilities struggle with […]
• Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery June 19, 2026
  The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. Douglass described in his 1845 autobiography how one of his enslavers, Mrs. Auld, began teaching him to read when he […]
• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, June 18, 2026 June 18, 2026
  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 […]