Ohio missed out on $1.2B in severance tax revenue
The responsible use of Ohio’s natural resources is crucial to the well-being of its residents and to the long-term sustainability of its economic infrastructure....
Is Big Tech bad at business?
Google just suffered a major defeat in its legal battle with Sonos. A judge ruled that Google infringed on five of Sonos’ audio patents....
GOP leaders rigging Ohio elections for foreseeable future
Nearly 75% of Ohio voters reformed the state constitution in 2018 to end gerrymandering and bring about fair, legal U.S. Congressional districts.Instead state Republican...
Illegal immigrants would get $10.5 billion from reconciliation bill
The budget reconciliation package pushed by Democrats creates a new expanded child tax credit (CTC) that would pay illegal immigrants some $10.5 billion next...
Parental educational rights and religious liberty: Yoder case revisited
Throughout the country, parents are concerned that some public schoolboards, administrators, and associations hold them in disdain and fear their input when they raise...
Specious theories concocted to justify inflation
From an economic point of view, some of the ideas being proposed by current policymakers in Washington, particularly the president’s Council of Economic Advisers...
How can we improve Ohio’s commercial activity tax?
Last month, the Ohio House’s Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on House Bill 234, a bill that would repeal Ohio’s commercial activity...
Native American Heritage Month celebrates Indigenous communities
November is Native American Heritage Month, and for Indigenous people across the country, it’s a chance to share the unique ancestry, traditions, and contributions...
Ohio House legislation could make bad water problems worse
For the past few years, my firm Scioto Analysis has published a series of studies of Ohio’s Genuine Progress Indicator, a “GDP+” measure that...
New rules on ‘mix-and-match’ vaccine booster shots
Many Americans now have the green light to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster – and the flexibility to receive a different brand than the...