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A sample ballot for the Ohio primary election. 

Updates in Ohio’s primary election: How to get an absentee ballot and still vote

Jenna Borthwick TV2 news director March 28, 2020

The Ohio General Assembly approved a plan Wednesday to extend absentee voting for the 2020 primary election until April 28 and eliminate most in-person voting.Lawmakers overruled Secretary of State Frank...

Ohio is one of 10 states, mainly in the Rust Belt, likely to lose seats in the House of Representatives following the 2020 Census next month, according to projections by The Kent Stater. Seven states are expected to gain districts, led by Texas with three added seats and Florida with two.

Projections show Ohio likely to lose House seats following 2020 Census

Editor’s note: This story is the work of Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Interviewing and Data class. Ohio is one of 10 states — mainly across the Rust Belt —...

Sydney Dunmire, Ohio youth governor, 69th governor of the Ohio YMCA youth and government program, and senior at Rutherford B. Hayes High School. 

High school students talk about voting, voter registration

As the presidential race wages on, emerging 18-year-old high school students will be able to exercise their voting power in the upcoming primaries and presidential election. According to Axios, Generation...

The Flashes attempt to block a field goal by Utah State on Friday Dec.20th, 2019. 

From 3-6 to bowl champs: How Kent State football turned its season around

Ian Kreider Sports reporter January 12, 2020

Kent State opened its football season with three of five games against Power 5 programs. Basically, scheduling — at best – a 2-3 record to the start of the season. That exact record came true, when...

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Kasich, Rubio seek survival, Clinton momentum

Nancy Benac, Associated Press March 15, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five more states chime in to the rambunctious campaign 2016 conversation on Tuesday, and no one's listening with greater interest than Marco Rubio and John Kasich, both of them desperate...

Our View: No-go for Joe Biden

KS Editors October 21, 2015

Vice President Joe Biden is no longer looking to take Obama’s seat in the White House. While the former Delaware senator ran for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008, he made the announcement Wednesday...

President Barack Obama delivers the State of The Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Obama in State of the Union: Tax wealthy, help middle class

Julie Pace, Associated Press January 21, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to bend to the new Republican Congress, President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday night an ambitious State of the Union agenda steeped in Democratic priorities, including...

Kline wins County Commissioner

Emily Mills November 4, 2014

Vicki Kline, the Democratic candidate for Portage ­County commissioner, defeated opponents Sabrina Christian-Bennett, the Republican incumbent, and Richard Duncan, an Independent candidate.Kline won the...