Marilou Johanek

2 weeks ago | citybeat.com | Marty Schladen |Marilou Johanek

For a week, global financial markets have plunged and swung wildly as a result of President Donald Trump’s huge tariffs. Already, auto-sector layoffs have started at a company with a big Ohio presence. One Republican Ohio U.S. Senator seems to have embraced the tariffs. The other says he’s talking to concerned parties about them. One candidate for the GOP governor nomination in 2026 also embraced the tariffs, while a Democratic candidate condemned them.

2 weeks ago | ohiocapitaljournal.com | Marilou Johanek

Ohioans showed up in a big way this past weekend. They gathered by the hundreds stretching into the thousands at protests scattered all across the state. The weather was miserable, but people kept coming. They braved the rain and cold to put Donald Trump and his shadow president Elon Musk on notice that they will not surrender to tyrants on an egomaniacal quest for prolonged power at the expense of the free. This is personal.

3 weeks ago | logandaily.com | Marilou Johanek

(Ohio Capital Journal) — Last fall, heading into the final stretch of a uniquely traumatizing presidential election year, I worried about us. I feared we were adapting to abnormal, becoming desensitized to appalling and shrugging off horrific. kAm{:<6 E96 >6E2A9@C:42= 7C@8D :? 2 A@E @7 H2E6C @? D=@H 3@:=[ H6 H6C6 D:>>6C:?8 :? E96 DFCC62=[ =F==65 :?E@ 4@>A=246?4J 2D 2 4@A:?8 >6492?:D>] }@H H6’C6 D:EE:?8 :? 2 7F==J 3@:=:?8 42F=5C@?

3 weeks ago | ohiocapitaljournal.com | Marilou Johanek

by Marilou Johanek, Ohio Capital Journal April 1, 2025 Last fall, heading into the final stretch of a uniquely traumatizing presidential election year, I worried about us. I feared we were adapting to abnormal, becoming desensitized to appalling and shrugging off horrific. Like the metaphorical frogs in a pot of water on slow boil, we were simmering in the surreal, lulled into complacency as a coping mechanism.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Marilou Johanek

The Ohio Statehouse. (Photo by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal.)Last fall, heading into the final stretch of a uniquely traumatizing presidential election year, I worried about us. I feared we were adapting to abnormal, becoming desensitized to appalling and shrugging off horrific. Like the metaphorical frogs in a pot of water on slow boil, we were simmering in the surreal, lulled into complacency as a coping mechanism.