In The Columbus Dispatch, Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, exposes One Fair Wage’s bait-and-switch tactics to put the proposed minimum wage constitutional amendment on the November 2025 ballot after failing to make the November 2024 ballot. “One Fair Wage…seems poised to pull an audacious switcheroo on early amendment supporters and unsuspecting Ohio voters. And the consequences, if they get away with it, could be catastrophic.”

In The Highland County Press, The Buckeye Institute highlights how government regulations, zoning requirements, and other bureaucratic restrictions make building new homes and apartments harder and more expensive. Buckeye criticizes the Biden-Harris administration’s “strategy to ‘fix’ these government-made problems with government-mandated rent control” and notes that a recent government lawsuit against the RealPage software company “is yet another example of how ‘politicians blame businesses rather than fix their own misguided policies.’”

The Newark Advocate features Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury—The Buckeye Institute’s case to overturn the federal ban on home distilling. Buckeye’s client in the case in John Ream of Licking County. Learn more about the case at BuckeyeInstitute.org/ReamvUSTreasury.

In a Labor Day opinion piece published by Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute offers a check-up on Ohio’s labor market, writing, “Ohio schools, business leaders, and policymakers should build on the state’s recent labor laurels, not rest on them. They should tailor education and training to help workers acquire the skills and know-how that 21st century employers need and want.”

In The Wall Street Journal, The Buckeye Institute warns of threats to the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court, writing, “As Alexander Hamilton observed, the ‘independence of the judges’ is ‘requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals’ from the actions of ‘designing men’ set on ‘dangerous innovations in the government.’ The political branches have forgone their own obligation to follow the Constitution, which makes the check of review by an independent judiciary all the more essential. Ms. Harris and Mr. Schumer would put it under threat.”

The Buckeye Institute demonstrates how President Biden’s Euro-style war on affordable energy won’t work. “The Biden administration implicitly insists that American families and businesses should not take affordable energy for granted. By ‘energy,’ the administration means food, transportation, manufacturing, and most comforts of modern daily life. Instead, bureaucratic regulators at Mr. Biden’s EPA suggest that U.S. consumers should prepare to pay even higher utility bills as new environmental rules further discourage energy companies from using coal and natural gas to generate power.”

As with groceries and gasoline, the sticker shock that consumers experience at hospitals and the doctor’s office is real. Given rampant inflation and rising healthcare expenses, it is not surprising that most American families find it hard to pay their medical bills. To keep healthcare affordable and accessible to the people who need it, hospitals and healthcare systems need competition and responsible spending. Policymakers should look for ways to help ensure both.

In The Lima News, The Buckeye Institute outlined specific reforms lawmakers should adopt to meet the growing demand for EdChoice scholarships. “Public and private charter schools need extra capital to fund school and classroom expansion, and there are ways for state policymakers to make that capital more accessible.” Buckeye urged lawmakers to “ensure that every student in every family across every community can find a seat in the classroom that best fits their academic needs.”

In The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Buckeye Institute defends the OhioACE program and urges officials at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to work collaboratively with the vendor to “properly administer the program while implementing policy solutions that maintain fiscal integrity and effectively get funds into the hands of needy families.”

In the Washington Examiner, The Buckeye Institute shines a light on the dangers of the Biden administration’s net-zero agenda, writing, “The Biden administration doggedly has pursued a ‘net zero’ climate-control policy since President Joe Biden’s first day in the Oval Office when he recommitted the country to the Paris Climate Accords. And as anyone who has shopped at grocery stores in the last three years will tell you, it’s been all downhill from there.”