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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. ...

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Public school librarians in Ohio are raising alarms about book bans and funding cuts.

School librarians have been navigating challenges in their work as long as they’ve been among the stacks in their local districts.

Proposed legislation to filter the reading choices students can make has brought conc...

Bob Wilson, an oil producer in Washington County stands in front of one of his injection wells. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal).

Washington County residents are raising concerns that injection wells in southeastern Ohio leaking brine waste will eventually pollute Marietta’s drinking water. 

Brine waste traveled undergroun...

A demonstrator carries a sign reading 'My Dreams Are Not Illegal' near American flags as immigrants rights supporters march. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.)

Citizenship in America has never just been about paperwork. It is about power.

It is the power to vote, to serve on a jury, to organize without fear, to speak with the full protect...

The Ohio burgee. (Getty images file photo.)

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. ...