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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
• Midwest. Kendall Crawford of Ohio Newsroom reports: “For the first time in decades, more people are moving to the Midwest than out of it.“
For decades, Midwestern cities have struggled to retain residents. As manufacturing jobs left, so did people.
The city of Akron lost one third of its population between 1960 and 2020. In the city of Cleveland it was 60%. Dayton faced a similar population decline – leaving factories closed and storefronts empty.
Now, however, there are signs that the trend is starting to reverse. For the first time in a long time, more people are migrating to metro areas than moving out of Ohio cities.
• Medicare. Chrissa Loukas of Spectrum News 1 reports: “Medicaid provider, patient responds to payment reductions.“
A company that is one of dozens for which the Ohio Department of Medicaid is suspending payments, classifying them as high risk, is now struggling…
A Mother’s Day gift hangs on Melissa Hudson’s wall. She is a single mother of three whose life was turned upside down 12 years ago and is dependent on Medicaid and home care services.
“It started with an occupational disease that came to me in 2014, and since then I have had health complications, open heart surgery,” Hudson said. “I receive nursing care for my many conditions: heart, kidney, lung, congestive heart failure.”
Hudson receives these services from Dynamic Home Health Care. But just a few days ago, the Ohio Department of Medicaid stopped paying them. They considered this activity to be high risk.
Lorna Cook, a registered nurse and legal nurse consultant at Dynamic Home Health Care, said this causes many problems.
• New AG. Mary Frances McGowan of Cleveland.com reports: “Andy Wilson begins work as Ohio’s recent attorney general“
Andy Wilson began work as Ohio’s 52nd attorney general on Monday, taking the oath of office over the weekend to finish out the final seven months of Dave Yost’s term…
Wilson, a Republican from Springfield, was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to take over as AG for Yost, who announced last month that he would resign on June 7 to take a job at Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative, Christian nonprofit based in Washington.
• Trump family victories worth billions of dollars. Reuters reports: “According to Trump’s cryptocurrency playbook, family always wins. Investors don’t“
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune through their major crypto ventures, while the investors they encouraged made $2.3 billion, a Reuters study found.
• Global conflicts. NPR reports: “Data shows that conflicts are increasing around the world, reaching their highest level since World War II.“
If you thought there were more wars raging in the world today, it turns out you’re right, and the data proves it.
A recent study by researchers at a university in Sweden recorded the highest number of conflicts between states in 2025 since World War II and the highest death toll recorded since the Rwandan genocide.
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