Steve Demetriou

Ohio lawmakers behind bill tying homestead exemption to inflation looking for more changes

BY: - August 17, 2023

Two Republican Ohio lawmakers are touting the inclusion of homestead tax exemption changes in this year’s budget and promising to work on future tweaks as well. Reps. Thomas Hall, R-Madison Township, and Steve Demetriou, R-Bainbridge Township, joined a pair of county auditors Wednesday to explain how the exemption will respond to inflation going forward. Hall […]

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Ohio Republican education assaults are a travesty, wrapped in unthinking, immature, petty grievance

BY: - May 25, 2023

Ohio boasts cherished, prestigious academic institutions that we rightly take enormous pride in, but now Ohio Republican lawmakers have their culture war sights set on destroying all of it, out of unthinking, immature, petty personal grievance and power politics. For many years, right-wingers have seethed resentfully at the whole bulk of American academia — many […]