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David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal

David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal

OCJ Editor-in-Chief David DeWitt has more than 15 years experience covering Ohio government, politics and policy, including education, health care, crime and courts, poverty, state and local government, business, labor, energy, environment, and social issues. He has worked for the National Journal, The New York Observer, The Athens NEWS, and Plunderbund.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and is a board member of the E.W. Scripps Society of Alumni and Friends. He can be found on Twitter @DC_DeWitt.

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In this photo from a 2022 baseball game in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fans pose for a photo in front of a Pride sign at Target Field. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

Happy Pride Month. Creepy, bully Republican lawmakers are fixated on assaulting our community
By: - June 8, 2023

Happy Pride Month, America, where LGBTQ+ people are under constant assault by bully Republican lawmakers who are weirdly obsessed with our community, especially the transgender members of it. Transgender people — especially transgender people of color — have been leading the activist charge toward LGBTQ+ human rights and equality since the beginning, literally throwing the […]

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The Ghost of an Idea: A reflection on Charles Dickens and the history and meaning of the season
By: - December 24, 2022

Since the stone age, winter festivals have bestowed their warming glow of fire and light and bountiful feast in nearly every culture of human civilization drudging through the cold, dark, biting months surrounding the solstice. Using the stars and sun as a guide for monitoring the seasons, humans through history sowed their crops, stocked food […]

Students at an Ohio elementary school help gather items for a food bank drive. (Photo by Duane Prokop/Getty Images for Feeding America)

Studies: Gains against childhood hunger lost after child tax credit ended
By: - November 15, 2022

An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October confirmed previous research that food insecurity increased substantially after the expiration of federal monthly advanced child tax credits on Jan. 15, 2022. The study looked at the period between January and July of this year in a series of national surveys, and found […]

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