Spending large amounts of money on TV advertising may not be the most effective way of reaching voters in the Cincinnati mayor's race.

Ever since the council-manager form of government was created in 1925, there have been continuing attempts to change the way Cincinnati's at-large council is elected.

Plus, why Republicans struggle to win seats in the Queen City.

Cincinnati's third political party, the Charter Committee, is trying to expand its influence beyond City Council elections.

One thing is clear: It's going to be a brutal six weeks.

State Sen. Matt Dolan, a Republican from the Cleveland suburb of Chagrin Falls, has other things he wants to talk about than the nation's 45th president.

Gov. Mike DeWine says his hands are tied on mask mandates for schools by a law that would allow the legislature to veto his orders. Is that true?

It has become clear that the five Republican members of the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission simply ignored the rules now written into the state constitution and produced a map – in secret, of course – that, if it prevails, would just serve to solidify their super-majority status in the legislature for the rest of this decade.

It looks like in November, we will find out how Cincinnati voters like their charter amendments – one dish at a time, or in a smorgasbord of eight not-insignificant city charter amendments, rolled up into one humongous all-or-nothing ballot issue.

The governor's handling of the COVID crisis in 2020 "could have been the celebratory cap to a largely successful 50-year career in politics. Now it's not clear what the end will be for Mike DeWine."