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Oliver Buchannon
Pennant Editorial Staff

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The Scorched Earth Season Is Coming. Before It Does, Look at the Numbers.

Jul 27, 2026

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The Scorched Earth Season Is Coming. Before It Does, Look at the Numbers.

This fall, both parties will run on corruption. Neither one wants you to read this first.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Who's Really In Charge Of College Sports? As Football Nears, Nobody's Sure

Jul 22, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Who's Really In Charge Of College Sports? As Football Nears, Nobody's Sure

Ohio State opens against Ball State on Sept. 5 and heads to Texas a week later. The sport behind those games is ungoverned, unsettled, and somehow more popular than ever.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: What JD Vance Doesn't Understand About Organized Labor

Jul 20, 2026

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EDITORIAL: What JD Vance Doesn't Understand About Organized Labor

Vice President JD Vance wants Republicans to rebuild organized labor. Those same unions are bankrolling the effort to flip Jon Husted's Senate seat.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Why Is There Maple Syrup Everywhere in Vermont? (And How Does Ohio's Stack Up?)

Jul 16, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Why Is There Maple Syrup Everywhere in Vermont? (And How Does Ohio's Stack Up?)

Vermont puts maple syrup everywhere and treats the harvest like a religion. Ohio's Geauga County has been doing the same thing since 1926 — it just doesn't talk about it as much.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Ohio Should Learn From New York's Data Center Mistake, Not Repeat It

Jul 15, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Ohio Should Learn From New York's Data Center Mistake, Not Repeat It

New York called its 2008 fracking pause temporary. It became a permanent ban by 2014. Ohio's anti-data center campaigns are running the same playbook.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Grove City, You Have a Problem

Jul 2, 2026

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3 min read

EDITORIAL: Grove City, You Have a Problem

This fall's Grove City referendum isn't about data centers. Read the document.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Intel's Missed Promises Drove The Ohio Chip Delays — And Left The State Exposed

Jun 29, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Intel's Missed Promises Drove The Ohio Chip Delays — And Left The State Exposed

Intel is five years behind schedule in New Albany. Ohio has no mechanism to recover most of what it spent — and hasn't tried.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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The Levy Math Districts Don't Want to Discuss

Jun 26, 2026

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1 min read

The Levy Math Districts Don't Want to Discuss

Some Ohio districts are swapping property tax levies for income tax levies, hoping a different ask gets a different answer. The cost structure driving the bill hasn't changed.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Ohio Voters Have Levy-Fatigue. School Leaders Have an Explanation Problem.

Jun 24, 2026

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1 min read

EDITORIAL: Ohio Voters Have Levy-Fatigue. School Leaders Have an Explanation Problem.

Ohio voters didn't turn against public institutions in May. They turned against school districts that haven't earned their trust back yet.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Ohio's College Reckoning Reaches Columbus

Jun 23, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Ohio's College Reckoning Reaches Columbus

A name on a college brochure is no longer a promise the school will be open at graduation. Ohio families need to start asking the questions no admissions office volunteers

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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Ten Ohio Reps Sided With the Teamsters Over the People Back Home

Jun 19, 2026

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Ten Ohio Reps Sided With the Teamsters Over the People Back Home

Five Ohio Republicans who campaigned as friends of business just voted to let federal arbitrators impose union contracts that neither workers nor companies get to approve.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: The World Cup, Food, Fun, and Everybody Is Getting Along

Jun 18, 2026

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2 min read

EDITORIAL: The World Cup, Food, Fun, and Everybody Is Getting Along

Something strange and wonderful is happening. The world showed up for the World Cup, and it turns out the world kind of loves us.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: The Summer Job Worth Saving

Jun 17, 2026

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1 min read

EDITORIAL: The Summer Job Worth Saving

Teen summer hiring is on pace for its worst year since 1948. For kids who can't trade a part-time job for a summer internship, the consequences go well beyond a missing paycheck.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: When the Calendar Becomes the Curriculum

Jun 16, 2026

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1 min read

EDITORIAL: When the Calendar Becomes the Curriculum

Out in Fairfax County, Virginia, the school district recently asked parents a telling question

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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What Is Price Cycling, and Why It Isn't Price Fixing

Jun 15, 2026

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What Is Price Cycling, and Why It Isn't Price Fixing

Why did gas prices in central Ohio rise while the rest of the country's fell? It's not a conspiracy — it's price cycling.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Public Project Lessons from Gahanna

Jun 12, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Public Project Lessons from Gahanna

Gahanna's $59 million civic center is delayed again after the electrical work had to be ripped out. The contractor says it'll cover the cost — but not who hired the out-of-state firm in the first place

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Two Birthdays, Two Americas

Jun 11, 2026

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EDITORIAL: Two Birthdays, Two Americas

As America marks its 250th birthday, the summer of 1976 offers a reminder that a divided country once chose, briefly, to celebrate what it shared

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: A Billion Dollars of Our Money – Poof!

Jun 9, 2026

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EDITORIAL: A Billion Dollars of Our Money – Poof!

On Monday, the Small Business Administration suspended 27,486 Ohio borrowers tied to about $1.1 billion in suspected fraudulent pandemic loans.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Three Stories, One Lean: Ohio Media on DEI

Jun 3, 2026

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2 min read

EDITORIAL: Three Stories, One Lean: Ohio Media on DEI

Three Ohio outlets covered the same bill. They quoted roughly a dozen opponents and two supporters. That's not a coincidence — it's a pattern.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Ohio Could Learn from Florida on Property Taxes

Jun 2, 2026

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2 min read

EDITORIAL: Ohio Could Learn from Florida on Property Taxes

Seniors are getting priced out of homes they already own. Ohio's governor candidates aren't talking about it. Florida is.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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Don't Fall for the One-Reason Trap on Your Electric Bill

May 27, 2026

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Don't Fall for the One-Reason Trap on Your Electric Bill

Your electric bill didn't go up because of AI. Here's what's actually happening.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Did You Get This Letter, Too?

May 26, 2026

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3 min read

EDITORIAL: Did You Get This Letter, Too?

A sitting school board member sent out a year-end note. We read it so you don't have to.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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Good Jobs Don't Always Need Four Years

May 20, 2026

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1 min read

Good Jobs Don't Always Need Four Years

Walk into almost any factory, hospital, or construction site in Ohio right now, and you'll hear the same thing from employers: we can't find enough workers.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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EDITORIAL: Ohio's Senate Race is About to Get Very Expensive

May 18, 2026

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2 min read

EDITORIAL: Ohio's Senate Race is About to Get Very Expensive

$79 Million Can Buy a Lot of Ads. Can It Buy Ohio?

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff

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The EdChoice Coverage Had a Point of View. It Should Have Said So.

May 13, 2026

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The EdChoice Coverage Had a Point of View. It Should Have Said So.

Several Ohio news outlets covered last week's EdChoice voucher hearing before the 10th District Court of Appeals. Most of the stories followed the same basic shape — and most of them had the same problems.

Pennant Editorial Staff
Pennant Editorial Staff
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