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0000017a-3b40-d913-abfe-bf44a4f90000Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU news team as the politics reporter and columnist in April 2012 , after 30 years of covering local, state and national politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. On this page, you will find his weekly column, Politically Speaking; the Monday morning political chats with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik and other news coverage by Wilkinson. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio gubernatorial race since 1974, as well as 16 presidential nominating conventions. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots, the Lucasville prison riot in 1993, the Air Canada plane crash at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983, and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. And, given his passion for baseball, you might even find some stories about the Cincinnati Reds here from time to time.

Early in-person voting in Ohio begins Tuesday morning

Registered Ohio voters can begin in-person early voting at their county boards of elections beginning 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Ohio is back to the hours set earlier by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, with 28 days to vote by absentee ballot or in-person at the boards of elections.

Early voting might have started on Sept. 30, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29 granted an emergency plea from state officials to block a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling expanding early voting days and times.

The Sixth Circuit court has since vacated its order; and told the parties that it could continue to pursue the case brought by the NAACP, the ACLU and others in U.S. District Court.

But that won’t have any impact on this year’s election.

Husted published a schedule that includes voting on two Saturdays before election day and the Sunday and Monday before election day.

You can see the early in-person voting schedule here.

Monday is the final day for Ohioans to register to vote in the Nov. 4 election.

Howard Wilkinson is in his 50th year of covering politics on the local, state and national levels.