Cleveland Plain Dealer | Cory Shaffer Cuyahoga County’s judges cited concerns over public safety, judicial independence and money as the reasons the county won’t participate in the first year of a new state program meant to keep low-level felony offenders out of prison. The 34 judges who make up the county’s common pleas court bench voted Wednesday

The Canton Repository | Charita Goshay Proposed legislation to allow dogs to accompany their owners at outdoor restaurants might break a land-speed record in Columbus for approval. Meanwhile, the quagmire that is the state’s charter-school system deepens with every new school year. A new report published by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Research on

The Columbus Dispatch Many of the problems with Ohio’s charter schools — and there have been plenty — stem from too-cozy ties among the schools, their vendors and their supposed watchdogs. So state Auditor Dave Yost is right to insist that, when schools have to pay back taxpayer money they didn’t deserve, all parties should

The Columbus Dispatch | Marty Schladen Ohio Auditor Dave Yost wants a court to stop ECOT from using taxpayer dollars to advertise on television. The state Board of Education says the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow owes $60 million for instructional hours for which it billed the state but can’t show it provided students. The school

The Columbus Dispatch | Dave Yost In the classic comedy Animal House, the dean of Faber College is informed of the latest outrage perpetrated by the problem Delta fraternity house, and he declares he has had enough. When informed that the fraternity is already on probation, he hesitates, and then thunders: “Well, as of this

The Columbus Dispatch | Randy Ludlow Saying that state spending on information-technology consultants and contract workers has more than doubled in five years, Auditor Dave Yost supports a budget proposal that would require state agencies to seek bids on all such contracts. A provision inserted into the state budget bill by Rep. Keith Faber, R-Celina,

The Daily Caller | Auditor of State Dave Yost Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown announced his opposition to the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court almost before the words were out of the President Trump’s mouth.  He should reconsider and pay more attention to the people of Ohio than the Washington, D.C. shrieking

Cleveland Plain Dealer | Jackie Borchardt COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials in hundreds of Ohio cities, villages, school districts and other local governments did not receive public records training or follow other parts of Ohio’s public records law requirements, according to Ohio Auditor Dave Yost’s office. State auditors issued 414 public records-related citations to 357 public entities in

Cleveland Plain Dealer | Jackie Borchardt COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four Northeast Ohio Medicaid providers together must pay back more than $1 million in overpayments, says Ohio Auditor Dave Yost. Much of that was received by G.S. Burton Development in Summit County. State auditors calculated $895,617 in overpayments were made to Burton for errors that occurred between

The Columbus Dispatch No one can see the future, but there are ways to get an inkling of where things are headed. Leading indicators have been used for decades by economists, business people and policy makers to try to project where an economy, an industry or a business is likely to head in the near