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• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, April 1, 2026 April 1, 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 […]
• Backers urge Ohio lawmakers to require absentee voters mail in a copy of their ID April 1, 2026
  A Republican Ohio lawmaker wants absentee voters to include a copy of their photo ID with their ballot. Last week the idea’s supporters got a chance to weigh in. They insisted Ohio House Bill 577 would enhance security and promote voter confidence. The new requirement isn’t too much to ask, they said — it would […]
• ACLU decries expanding ICE partnerships with Ohio law enforcement April 1, 2026
  Donald Trump took office at the start of 2025 vowing to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ramp up mass deportations. Even as voters have soured on the effort, contracts between ICE and Ohio’s local law enforcement agencies have exploded, the ACLU of Ohio reported on Monday. At the end of 2024, just two counties […]
• Ohio State University College of Medicine is being investigated by the Justice Department April 1, 2026
  The United States Department of Justice is investigating Ohio State University College of Medicine over potential racial discrimination. Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling stopping admissions considering the applicant’s race, the Trump Administration has focused on allegations of discrimination against white applicants. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, sent […]
• Banning drag, ignoring bullets: Ohio’s backwards approach to protecting children April 1, 2026
  Ohio lawmakers continue to insist they are acting “to protect children,” yet their legislative priorities tell a very different story. Instead of addressing the actual, documented leading cause of death for children in our state, gun violence, they are spending their time restricting drag performances. It’s a choice rooted not in child safety, but in ideology […]
• Ohio’s FirstEnergy corruption case ends with hung jury March 31, 2026
  Summit County jurors were unable to reach a verdict on whether former FirstEnergy executives committed bribery in what’s been called the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history. The jury had been deadlocked on whether former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and VP Mike Dowling bribed former Public Utilities Commission Chair Sam Randazzo with $4.3 million […]