In a Labor Day opinion piece published by Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute offers a check-up on Ohio’s labor market, writing, “Ohio schools, business leaders, and policymakers should build on the state’s recent labor laurels, not rest on them. They should tailor education and training to help workers acquire the skills and know-how that 21st century employers need and want.”

In The Wall Street Journal, The Buckeye Institute warns of threats to the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court, writing, “As Alexander Hamilton observed, the ‘independence of the judges’ is ‘requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals’ from the actions of ‘designing men’ set on ‘dangerous innovations in the government.’ The political branches have forgone their own obligation to follow the Constitution, which makes the check of review by an independent judiciary all the more essential. Ms. Harris and Mr. Schumer would put it under threat.”

The Buckeye Institute demonstrates how President Biden’s Euro-style war on affordable energy won’t work. “The Biden administration implicitly insists that American families and businesses should not take affordable energy for granted. By ‘energy,’ the administration means food, transportation, manufacturing, and most comforts of modern daily life. Instead, bureaucratic regulators at Mr. Biden’s EPA suggest that U.S. consumers should prepare to pay even higher utility bills as new environmental rules further discourage energy companies from using coal and natural gas to generate power.”

As with groceries and gasoline, the sticker shock that consumers experience at hospitals and the doctor’s office is real. Given rampant inflation and rising healthcare expenses, it is not surprising that most American families find it hard to pay their medical bills. To keep healthcare affordable and accessible to the people who need it, hospitals and healthcare systems need competition and responsible spending. Policymakers should look for ways to help ensure both.

In The Lima News, The Buckeye Institute outlined specific reforms lawmakers should adopt to meet the growing demand for EdChoice scholarships. “Public and private charter schools need extra capital to fund school and classroom expansion, and there are ways for state policymakers to make that capital more accessible.” Buckeye urged lawmakers to “ensure that every student in every family across every community can find a seat in the classroom that best fits their academic needs.”

In The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Buckeye Institute defends the OhioACE program and urges officials at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to work collaboratively with the vendor to “properly administer the program while implementing policy solutions that maintain fiscal integrity and effectively get funds into the hands of needy families.”

In the Washington Examiner, The Buckeye Institute shines a light on the dangers of the Biden administration’s net-zero agenda, writing, “The Biden administration doggedly has pursued a ‘net zero’ climate-control policy since President Joe Biden’s first day in the Oval Office when he recommitted the country to the Paris Climate Accords. And as anyone who has shopped at grocery stores in the last three years will tell you, it’s been all downhill from there.”

“A modern legal battle challenges the federal ban on distilling alcohol at home—a favorite hobby of the Founding Fathers.” For Reason, C. Jarrett Dieterle features Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, The Buckeye Institute’s case to end the federal ban on home distilling, writing, “Earlier this year, the Buckeye Institute…launched a lawsuit challenging America’s home distilling ban, arguing that it violated the commerce clause of the United States Constitution.”

In February 2023, The Buckeye Institute sued the City of Columbus, Ohio, to stop its illegal and unconstitutional 30-round magazine ban. In Doe v. Columbus, Buckeye represents six Columbus residents who legally owned, and still own, 30-round magazines until the city banned them. This case is still in its early stages, but Buckeye has already won significant victories defending the Ohio and U.S. constitutions and protecting the rights of gun owners. 

At Cleveland.com, The Buckeye Institute encourages Ohio lawmakers to update the state’s antiquated and anti-competitive franchise law, which is responsible for lopsided restrictions that unfairly favor large wholesale distributors. “Ohio boasts an award-winning craft beer industry. But that industry and its small business owners have largely thrived in recent years despite — not because of — an unfair legal holdover from the Nixon era that should finally be changed, if not repealed entirely.”