Jo Ingles
Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment.
After working for more than a decade at WOSU-AM, Jo was hired by the Ohio Public Radio/TV News Bureau in 1999. Her work has been featured on national networks such as National Public Radio, Marketplace, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium and the BBC. She is often a guest on radio talk shows heard on Ohio’s public radio stations. In addition, she’s a regular guest on WOSU-TV’s “Columbus on the Record” and ONN’s “Capitol Square”. Jo also writes for respected publications such as Columbus Monthly and the Reuters News Service.She has won many awards for her work across all of those platforms. She is currently the president of the Ohio Radio and TV Correspondent’s Association, a board member for the Ohio Legislative Correspondent’s Association and a board member for the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters. Jo also works as the Media Adviser for the Ohio Wesleyan University Transcript newspaper and OWU radio.
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The ACLU of Ohio has withdrawn a case from the Ohio Supreme Court and on Friday filed a new case in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court instead, in an attempt to get an injunction that would allow clinics to continue to operate.
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The announcement comes just days after a hearing where 65 of Terpsehore Maras' petition signatures were challenged in a court hearing.
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Now that Indiana is poised to put its ban in place in mid-September, a spokesperson says the Dayton clinic no longer has an option for patients in Ohio, where abortion is banned at about six weeks into a pregnancy, or as soon as fetal cardiac activity has been detected.
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The Ohio Debate Commission wants to hold debates on October 10 and 12 at the Akron-Summit County Public Library's main auditorium. But at this point, only one side has agreed to those events.
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President Joe Biden's student loan relief plan will forgive $10,000 for each government loan borrower and $20,000 for those who had Pell Grants. Ohio ranks as second overall nationally in the percentage of residents who owe student loans.
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One issue could change the process for granting bail. The other is meant to make it so only U.S. citizens could vote in Ohio. Meanwhile, opponents of both are considering asking the Ohio Supreme Court to take action to prevent those measures from going forward.
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One year ago, the Taliban took over Afghanistan, and since that time, more than 67,000 people from Afghanistan have come to the United States to settle in many places, including Ohio.
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Group plans to put Christian schools inside Ohio churches and allow kids to attend with public moneyA new private school has been commissioned in Columbus, but it’s not like many others. What makes this one different is the elementary school is housed in a church, in a low-income neighborhood. This is a pilot project for the Center for Christian Virtue. And the group said it’s just the first of many that will use church facilities for a private Christian school.
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Political scientists say careful calculations are being made right now as to whether and how candidates should engage in public debate.
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Parton was the special guest at a luncheon at Ohio State University with Ohio first lady Fran DeWine, where the country music legend talked about her modest beginnings with her large family in her hometown near Sevierville, Tennessee.