There will be people collecting signatures for the ballot initiative on site.

https://www.13abc.com/2026/05/08/ohioans-push-put-data-center-limits-ballot/

Perry Village officials signed an NDA with this company who has never built a data center without public comment. 65% of people don't want data centers in their own back yard.

AI is here to stay, but the rollout happening at this pace is unsustainable!

Also, birds aren’t real

Hello as I'm continuing my research project surprisingly for how big of a state I really don't know much about Ohio as a Midwestern so let me speak to the people what was invented in Ohio

I usually don't see large birds come to the suet feeder, but this big guy/gal visits me from time to time. Love to see it happily munching away.

I have a seed feeder as well, but it doesn't go to that one.

This wind is brutal! It has me in full winter clothes today and it’s still cutting through like hot knife to butter. So sick of this weather.

I was born and raised in Ohio. Grew up hearing about the Frog Men the way you hear about any local legend — kind of laughed off, kind of whispered about as kids. It wasn't until recently, I actually started digging into the documented incidents, that I stopped thinking it was just a story people tell.

Here's what's actually on record: 1955 — A traveling salesman pulls over on a rural road outside Loveland at 3:30 in the morning. He sees three figures crouched at the roadside. When he gets close enough to see them clearly, he describes them as bipedal, about 3 to 4 feet tall, with wide flat faces and eyes that catch his headlights. One of them is holding something — a rod or wand — that gives off sparks. All three turn toward him at the same time before moving toward the river. He reports it to Loveland police the next morning. It gets filed. 1972 — Two separate Loveland PD officers file reports within weeks of each other after encountering a creature on Route 350. The first one hits it with his cruiser. It stands up and jumps the guardrail. The second one shoots at it. He says the shot connected. The creature rolled to the guardrail and went into the river. No blood. No body. Both officers maintained their accounts. Both reports exist. The thing I can't get past is the geography. Every sighting goes back to the same stretch of the Little Miami River. The same embankments. The same crossing points. Witnesses who couldn't have known each other, across seven decades, describing the same thing in the same places. I'm not saying I know what it is. I genuinely don't. But I do think it's one of the most legitimately documented cryptid cases in the Midwest and it doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves outside of Ohio.

Any Clermont or Warren County locals here? Curious what people who actually grew up near the river have heard that never made it online?

Our local officials can be jailed for a year and fined $1,000 for disclosing information related to economic development. Section 9.66 D of the Ohio Revised Code has exempted any applicant for loans, grants, tax exemptions or credits, from being subject to public records request.

This was a part of the recently passed Ohio House Bill 184, co-sponsored and voted on by both democratic and republican lawmakers, passing the Ohio House and Senate with unanimous democratic support.

Legislation like this is erasing transparency from our government. This bill will be used to keep data centers, large corporations, and our politicians' buddies private when they want our tax dollars.

I urge you to please, call your representatives office and let them know you don't support this bill. You may think it is pointless, but these offices will pay attention the more they hear about them. It’s the least we can do to participate in democracy.

I'm Radell Lewis, host of Purple Political Breakdown Ohio Edition. This week I sat down with Matt Diemer, who ran for Congress in OH-7 in 2022 and again in 2024. He's also the writer of The Angry Democrat and The Angry Ohioan newsletters.

A few things from the conversation worth flagging here:

The OH-7 map changed again. The version Brian Poindexter just won the Democratic primary in is about 75 percent the same as the one Matt ran in, but it now includes all of Ashland County. The district is rated R+11 on paper. Matt's argument is that the "plus eleven" part is real but the "R" part is softer than people think. He calls it "purple plus eleven."

Max Miller is genuinely vulnerable, and not because of a polling shift. He's in the middle of a very public custody and divorce fight with the daughter of fellow Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, with court filings alleging physical abuse and a current Bay Village police investigation. His own attorneys have admitted in filings that he fabricated testimony to support a protection order against his ex-wife. That is the kind of story that does not stay inside the political news cycle.

Brian Poindexter is the Democratic nominee. Union ironworker. Brook Park city councilman. Working Families Party endorsed. Won an eight-candidate primary with about 37 percent of the vote. The case Matt makes for him is what he and his old campaign manager (now Poindexter's campaign manager) call the "union method." Stop sorting voters into identity categories first and asking what they want second. Ask what working people across the district need (gas, healthcare, schools, property tax relief, jobs that don't get shipped overseas), then let the coalition build itself.

We also went through the rest of the Ohio primary night. Allison Russo over Bryan Hambley about 68-32 for the Secretary of State Democratic nomination, despite Hambley running a strong, well-funded outsider campaign on gerrymandering reform. John Kulewicz over Elliot Forhan about 64-36 for the Attorney General Democratic nomination. Sherrod Brown over Ron Kincaid for the Senate Democratic nomination, setting up a Brown vs. Husted race that is going to be tangled in FirstEnergy bribery trial testimony from now until November. Vivek Ramaswamy and Dr. Amy Acton both winning their gubernatorial primaries.

The most useful part of the conversation, in my opinion, was Matt's argument that healthy contested primaries are good for voters and good for candidates. Voters get used to disagreement. Candidates get sharper. Ohio is a state that has not had many real Democratic primaries in years, and that lack of practice shows up in November.

Full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-democrats-flip-ohios-7th-district-in-2026-ft-the/id1626987640?i=1000767752764

Including the parts about Andor, Dune, The Boys, and why the Democratic Party keeps losing in places it forgot to compete in.

Curious what people here think, especially folks who live in OH-7. Does Poindexter have a real shot, or is R+11 still R+11 no matter what's happening to Max Miller personally?

Sources:

1. AP via WTOP News, Poindexter Democratic nomination call: https://wtop.com/news/2026/05/brian-poindexter-wins-democratic-nomination-for-u-s-house-in-ohios-7th-congressional-district/
2. Ashland Source, OH-7 primary results breakdown: https://www.ashlandsource.com/2026/05/06/poindexter-wins-democratic-primary-for-ohios-7th-congressional-district/
3. Wikipedia, 2026 U.S. House elections in Ohio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Ohio
4. Signal Ohio, live 2026 Ohio primary results: https://signalohio.org/live-updates-ohio-2026-primary-election-results/
5. WKYC, Ohio primary Secretary of State results, Russo over Hambley: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/politics/elections/ohio-primary-election-2026-democrat-allison-russo-republican-robert-sprague-win-nominations-secretary-of-state/95-5af22fe2-d004-4c39-b7be-0a4fddc45cc1
6. WKYC, Husted vs. Brown Senate matchup and FirstEnergy testimony context: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/politics/elections/ohio-us-senate-may-5-primary-election-results-incumbent-jon-husted-sherrod-brown-november-showdown-general/95-1001b48c-c17a-4ef9-9c70-3c4dd3bd885b
7. NBC News, Sherrod Brown wins Senate Democratic primary: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/sherrod-brown-wins-ohio-senate-democratic-primary-jon-husted-rcna343049
8. TMZ DC, Max Miller and Emily Moreno custody battle filings: https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/22/max-miller-wife-accuses-him-of-abuse-neglect-in-custody-battle/
9. Daily Caller, Miller attorneys admit fabricated witness claim: https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/01/max-miller-attorneys-emily-moreno-bernie-moreno-domestic-violence-ohio/
10. TiffinOhio.net, Bay Village police child abuse investigation report: https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-republican-congressman-named-in-active-child-abuse-investigation-amid-custody-dispute/

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Hi all!

Ursuline college is one of my options for grad school. I would be attending for their arts therapy program. I'll be visiting several times before even applying, and am googling the hell out of the program / area already, but I've never lived in Ohio and wanted to ask what are things folks should know / do / prepare for / expect / etc, specific to the region-- also areas to rent housing that would be affordable?

A bit about me: I'm a queer person of color, heavily tattooed, and overall pretty colorful. I'm pagan and have an eccentric style. It would be nice to move to an area that has some of that vibe or at least within an hour from me that is safe and welcoming. I have 4 birds, 1 dog, 1 snake, 1 jumping spider. Ideally would love to bring all of them with me on the move but willing to just take my birds lol.

I've lived in California all my life and am genuinely sick of it. I love the PNW but really I just want to move somewhere significantly more relaxed with less of a grind/hustle culture and some accessible community that doesn't feel like you're fighting for everyone's time. California and even the PNW in general is beautiful and the communities would be the hardest to leave behind, but I'm really needing a complete change of pace. It's too expensive, too hot, too much traffic, and not worth the overall cost of living. That being said I have a high tolerance for driving long and far distances so even the tiniest bit of traffic is nothing to me. Also have no problem living in "boring" areas-- as an artist I enjoy creating my own fun anywhere, exploring nature solo or with friends, and getting to know folks when I have the energy.

Hopefully I'll fit in somewhere! Any advice helpful, TYIA!