The move is seen as a rebuke of Gov. Paul LePage, a Trump ally who vetoed the Obamacare-related measure. New York rejected a constitutional convention and Ohio defeated a cap on drug prices.
In odd-numbered years, Election Day is a hodgepodge of races. But in an era when all politics is national, these low-profile elections have a lot to say about the direction of the country.
Ohio voters are being asked by a ballot initiative to consider making a law that would require the state to pay no more for prescription drugs than the federal Department of Veterans Affairs does.
The lethal injection of Ronald Phillips may mark the end of Ohio's battle to find a legally permissible means of execution – and the state may soon execute more of the 138 people on its death row.
Health care jobs now outnumber manufacturing jobs in Jefferson County, Ohio. Hospital administrators worry that Republican plans to cut Medicaid will lead to layoffs.
The state's attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. "They knew they were wrong," Mike DeWine says, "but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it."
A small startup called Liberty Mobility Now is staking itself as the Uber of rural America. But to find its niche there, it has had to adapt everything from its app to its driver training.
As a federal court considers the state's appeal of a decision last month blocking its three-drug lethal injection protocol, Gov. John Kasich announced he was putting executions on hold until May.