John Kasich

SPRINGFIELD TWP. -- When Tom Zawist���owski is told something can't be done, he doesn't listen. He wanted to find a way -- in pre-Internet days -- for sports fans to listen to events not being broadcast on local radio or...

Maybe dumping Kevin DeWine wasn't such a good idea, after all, Gov. John Kasich and his supporters may be thinking these days. DeWine was ousted as chairman of the Ohio Republican Party in 2012, Kasich and his allies worried about DeWine steering a...

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald has officially kicked off his campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for Ohio governor. FitzGerald made his formal announcement first in Cleveland before traveling to Columbus and Cincinnati on Wednesday....

One of the oddest Statehouse spectacles in recent years -- a beer bill being put on hold after it passed both branches of the legislature unanimously -- apparently is coming to an end. Gov. John Kasich said he likely will sign the measure, pushed...

Gov. John Kasich named a former state representative to lead Ohio's higher-education system yesterday, saying his "job-creation mindset" will further the governor's plans for the state's economy. John Carey, a Republican from Wellston, was appointed...

Ohio is getting friendlier to the expanding craft beer industry. State lawmakers have approved creating a new liquor permit available exclusively to small brewers that will lower the annual licensing fee from $3,906 to $1,000. The new permit, called...

The Sylvania School District Board of Education voiced opposition Monday to a provision in Gov. John Kasich's biennial budget that proposes to expand publicly funded vouchers to private or parochial schools. The board members voted 5-0 to oppose a...

WASHINGTON -- "It is not a white flag of surrender," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said. This was technically true: Scott did not wave a banner of any color when he announced Wednesday that he wants Florida to expand Medicaid, a key piece of Obamacare....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon says he is changing the way he campaigns for Medicaid expansion. "In January and February, I spent the majority of my time on this issue," Nixon said at a news conference on Monday at Burrell Behavioral Health Center,...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday became the sixth Republican governor to back the extension of Medicaid coverage under the Obama administration's health care overhaul, setting the stage for a potential fight with members of his...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Should Gov. Rick Snyder throw his support behind a plan to extend Medicaid coverage to 470,000 Michigan residents without health insurance, it would be the second time in less than 18 months the Republican has bucked many...