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• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, March 23, 2026 March 23, 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 House approves food stamp funding that will leave big shortfalls in urban counties March 23, 2026
  Reductions in federal funding for food stamps are rippling through the Ohio legislature. For decades the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has split administrative costs evenly between states and the federal government. The Trump/Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act changes that split to 75% and 25%, with states shouldering more of the burden. The measure also […]
• Report: As food cuts phase in, Ohioans will die prematurely March 23, 2026
  New work requirements to get federal food assistance will cause 900 premature deaths in Ohio by 2040, according to a new analysis.  If administrative costs dramatically increase state expenses and force Ohio to abandon the program altogether, those deaths will soar to 23,000, according to a report released Tursday by the Center for American Progress. […]
• Supporters praise Ohio bill to change vaccine requirements, emphasize exemptions March 23, 2026
  Supporters of a bill that would eliminate the requirement for some children to receive the hepatitis B vaccine and modify other vaccine regulations argued to an Ohio House committee last week that the bill is really about parental choice. Ohio House Bill 561 is a Republican-sponsored bill that would repeal hepatitis B vaccine requirements for […]
• Can Ohio learn from an immigration crackdown a century ago? March 23, 2026
  This month, Ohio landed in international news. The Guardian reported on ICE’s new “Operation Buckeye,” an initiative to deport Somali residents of central Ohio and throughout the state. While deportations represent the most visible and sometimes violent policy being enacted in the United States today, the largest impacts on immigration in today are coming from […]
• Still no verdict in Ohio’s FirstEnergy bribery case March 22, 2026
  Former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling will have to wait until after the weekend to find out if the jury thinks they’re guilty for their role in the largest corruption scheme in Ohio history. For six weeks, the state has explained why they think Jones and Dowling are guilty of bribing former Public […]