Rick Rouan assumed duties as managing editor of The Columbus Dispatch recently. Rouan, 38, succeeds Encarnacion Pyle, who ...

Meet Sophia Veneziano, our human kindness reporter funded by the Center for HumanKindness at the Columbus Foundation.

May was not its tempered self along Lake Erie. North winds repeatedly blew chilled air across an agitated lake that tossed and turned all month.

The track-record for abolishing or cutting Ohio taxes isn’t great. In 1972, voters refused to repeal Ohio’s (then-new) income tax (passed by a Republican-run legislature in 1971); only 31% voted “yes.