Anna Staver
On Air Contributor at Spectrum News 1 Ohio
Radio Host at WOSU-FM (Columbus, OH)
Ohio Statehouse reporter for https://t.co/oBvoGA0DbO | Contributor @SpectrumNews1OH | Distance runner, plant hoarder, bibliophile, tiny human chaser and amateur baker
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4 days ago |
cleveland.com | Jeremy Pelzer |Anna Staver
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio Senate Republicans are rejecting plans to issue $600 million in state bonds to help pay for a new Cleveland Browns stadium in suburban Brook Park. Instead, the Senate GOP’s initial state budget plan, unveiled Tuesday, would get the money from a very different source: raiding the state’s $4.8 billion unclaimed property fund.
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1 week ago |
cleveland.com | Anna Staver
COLUMBUS, Ohio --They’re obscure, rarely make headlines and most Ohioans don’t know they exist. But county budget commissions, quiet panels that include your county auditor and treasurer, could get new powers to cut property taxes -- even over the objections of schools, libraries, and first responders. “The budget commission should be the true watchdog for the taxpayer,” said Rep. Dave Thomas, a Republican from Ashtabula.
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1 week ago |
cleveland.com | Anna Staver
NewsPublished: May. 28, 2025, 3:13 p.m.Stock photo. Downloaded from Advance Getty Images account in May 2025. (ftwitty | Getty Images)ftwitty | Getty ImagesCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio House unanmiously voted Wednesday to ban police departments from requiring their officers to write a certain number of tickets each month. House Bill 131, sponsored by state Reps.
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1 week ago |
cleveland.com | Anna Staver
NewsPublished: May. 27, 2025, 1:59 p.m.Scott Jarvis Babcock, a fifth-generation Lorain County farmer, walks the edges of one of his cornfields in Rochester, Ohio, in this Oct. 12, 2007, file photo. (Marvin Fong, Plain Dealer file)The Plain DealerCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio farmers are pushing back after a federal report questioned the safety of glyphosate and other pesticides. The report was released as part of the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again initiative.
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2 weeks ago |
cleveland.com | Anna Staver
Rotunda Rumblings Still no fix: Nearly five years after the House Bill 6 scandal landed House Speaker Larry Householder in prison, Ohio lawmakers are still debating how to prevent the next one. Anna Staver reports that Democrats introduced the latest round of reform bills this week. One bill would require disclosure of dark money donors while another would block companies from getting state contracts if they donate to politicians.
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