Ohio Liberty News

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Gas tax paused 90 days... right before you vote

CITY HALL

'Unacceptable': Fire families reject city's non-answer

Cleveland, your polling place may have moved

Columbus padlocks hotel over 'alleged' crime

Akron adds 8 houses to the wrecking list

Akron renters get their say at the ballot box

Youngstown summit hunts for the missing houses

TAXES & SPENDING

Cuyahoga's November ballot comes with a bill

ODOT maps I-71 connector through Delaware County

State jobs agency's big move: a rebrand

THE STATEHOUSE

Ohio tees up 208,856 voters for cancellation

Bill would reopen courthouse doors for clergy abuse survivors

HB 338 promises less prison violence. Studies say opposite

Who gets the keys to Ohio's checkbook?

Here's what Ohio lawmakers pocket on your dime

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

What was ex-Akron cop doing inside Flock cameras?

Akron ballot asks: who watches the watchmen?

AG probes what happened to rape kit data

THE COURTS

I-TEAM: Court keeps botching arrest warrants

I-TEAM: The indictment they kept secret

Ohio's botched execution haunts the death chamber

SCHOOLS

Statehouse's next fight: how your kid does math

Mentor families split as district eyes school mergers

Columbus kindergarten: the post-COVID report card

Ohio teacher pay lands 23rd in the nation

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Hannah Henriksen: Why Human Respect Is Essential to LibertyGeorge Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

WAR POWERS

Rubio boots Iran's negotiators, Trump teases next strikes^NEW

Scott Horton: the Iran 'panicans' were right

Ron Paul asks: is Cuba next?^NEW

Ron Paul: America finally (sort of) out of Iraq^NEW

THE FED

Washington's debt bill explodes: yields hit 24-year high^NEW

...and your mortgage just hit 7.28%^NEW

Kashkari confesses: inflation 'still too high'^NEW

Fed watchdog clears Fed chief. Naturally.^NEW

Crop prices log biggest jump since Ukraine invasion^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Sue a fed in California? Meet qualified immunity.

Supreme Court puts deportation machine under the knife^NEW

Court slaps rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots^NEW

He fought for his country. Now it wants his land.^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

Musk, Luckey and Gingrich walk into the Pentagon...^NEW

Trump's steel mill: steelmakers win, you pay^NEW

Trump and Big AI go all-in together^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

Gutowski: America never taxed common guns. Why start?

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Reminder: the Constitution has no 'emergency' clause

Trump on ads you paid for: 'I'm promoting the country'

Trump regrets his own Supreme Court picks^NEW

The libertarian case for impeachment...^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

Cops' AI dragnet grabbed innocent driver. Judge just killed it.

DHS watchlisted Americans over 'potential inaccuracies'

Leak: cops can beat your iPhone's lock-down reboot^NEW

America rejects plate cameras, San Francisco shrugs^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Cops knocked over her Facebook post. Lawsuit stands.

Ask Trump's chatbot who won 2020. Good luck.

Pepperdine bans professor who taught a black Jesus

Court: publishing sealed arrest records is protected speech

TAXES & REGULATION

Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 visa toll^NEW

Treasury readies $3,400 school-choice tax credit^NEW

Watch: how Washington made your BLT more expensive^NEW

Nicotine isn't the killer. Politicians ban it anyway.^NEW

First city to price-fix your groceries...^NEW

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

Rand Paul: Americans poorer under Trump than Biden^NEW

Jack Hunter: more Massie, fewer midterm woes

FEDERAL FAILURE

FAA hiring spree follows 'chronically understaffed' confession^NEW

Trump orders rats and mosquitoes out of DC^NEW

STATES PUSH BACK

Texas kills cop shop that gave 'no benefit'