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Each morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio, the country and the world that catches our eye. We call this feature Catching Our Eye and have published it here.
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Catching our eyes
• Data centers. Signal Ohio’s Andrew Tobias reports: “”He’s trying to win this election’: Sherrod Brown attacks Jon Husted’s support for data centers“
Sherrod Brown has made the data center attack a more perceptible part of his campaign for U.S. Senate, putting the influential pro-union Democrat in particular at odds with some members of his party as well as one of the state’s largest organized labor groups.
Brown released an ad this week in which he attacks Republican Sen. Jon Husted, his opponent in the November election, calling him “the face of data centers in Ohio.” The ad said Husted “cut lovers’ tax deals” and expedited permits “while ordinary residents watched their electricity bills explode.”
• Populism vs. “Do what we want.” Laura Hancock of Cleveland.com reports: “Populism issues force Ohio Republican Party to abandon its do-what-we-want approach ahead of election: 5 takeaways.“
The political landscape in Ohio is changing as populist issues begin to overcome long-standing partisan divides, forcing the Republican-controlled Statehouse to address voter concerns it previously ignored.
From rising property taxes to the rapid expansion of data centers and school vouchers, these changes are creating recent pressure on leaders ahead of the upcoming November elections.
