Politics

Howard Wilkinson: Politics and More

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.

Ohio Governor John Kasich Announces White House Bid

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Published July 21, 2015 at 8:31 AM EDT

Ohio Governor John Kasichannounces his presidential candidacy today, his second bid for the White House. He enters an already-crowded field, becoming the 16^th candidate to officially jump into the race.

WVXU political reporter Howard Wilkinson joins us to discuss Governor Kasich’s chances of winning his party’s nomination, and whether he even has a shot at being one of the ten candidates with poll numbers high enough to win him a place on stage at the first GOP debate on August 6.