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Michigan Republicans shrug off Vance Ohio ribbing – Washington Examiner

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July 21, 2024

Michigan Republicans shrug off Vance Ohio ribbing – Washington Examiner

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s story of overcoming personal hardship was one of the reasons former President Donald Trump tapped him to become his running mate, with the hope people in the midwestern battleground states, including Michigan, would relate to him.

Although the 39-year-old Ohio senator’s nomination acceptance speech last week at the Republican National Convention was peppered with quips at Michigan, particularly regarding football, Michigan Republicans do not appear to mind.

“It’s all fun and games,” Jill Kindig, a Brighton, Michigan, resident, told the Washington Examiner on Saturday outside Trump’s rally in Grand Rapids, his first since last week’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania and Vance’s first as a vice presidential candidate.

“They have that joke all the time,” Sierra Ackerman, an Ohio resident who came to Michigan for the event, said outside Van Andel Arena downtown.

“That’s been going on for years on top of years,” David Martinez, a Muskegon, Michigan, resident, added. “I’ve got relatives that played for Ohio State. I’ve got a granddaughter at Michigan, I’ve got a granddaughter and daughter at Michigan State. So it doesn’t matter. Come on, you know, we’re American, we’ve got to have that rivalry in football.”

Most of Vance’s banter is based on the football rivalry between the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University.

“I heard some ‘O-H’s but I’m going to respect Michigan and not respond here,” Vance told the crowd during one of his two appearances onstage. “To my Ohio brethren: Guys, we’ve got to win Michigan. That’s the most important thing this election cycle.”

Michigan’s importance to the 2024 election was underscored by aides choosing it as Vance’s first rally as the Republican vice presidential nominee. For President Joe Biden, or whoever might replace him as the Democratic presidential nominee, the so-called “blue wall” of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where last week’s convention was, will be crucial to securing 270 Electoral College votes in November. That is where polling is still within the margin of error between Biden and Trump, compared to the other battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, and even Nevada, which has not supported a Republican in a presidential election since then-President George W. Bush in 2004, where the GOP nominee is ahead. Biden’s campaign has also described the blue wall as his “clearest path” back to the White House.

Trump has a 1.7-percentage-point lead on Biden in Michigan, according to RealClearPolitics‘s aggregation of head-to-head polling, with Trump’s advantages over Biden in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin widening since their debate and Democratic calls for the president to step aside as the party’s nominee. Biden’s standing in Michigan had earlier been jeopardized by his response to the Israel–Hamas war in the Gaza Strip because of the state’s large Arab American and Muslim communities.

David Cohen, a politics professor at the University of Akron in Ohio, reiterated that Trump had picked Vance to campaign in the Midwest, amplifying the former president’s message of economic populism and social conservatism — policy positions that helped him crack the blue wall in 2016 against then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“Though Ohio is not a battleground state this year, Ohio’s neighbors of Michigan and Pennsylvania are — and they are perhaps the two most critical swing states in 2024,” Cohen told the Washington Examiner. “Vance’s story plays well in these places — particularly in the rural, blue-collar areas of the Midwest.

“It is interesting that he played up the Ohio-Michigan rivalry at the RNC convention,” he said. “I’d be surprised if he talked about his graduating from the Ohio State University while in Michigan — I’m pretty sure that would not go over well with the crowd.”

During his convention address, Vance joked that the Ohio delegates needed to “chill with the Ohio love here.”

“We’ve got to win Michigan too,” he said. “… We’ve had enough political violence.”

But Vance Patrick, the Republican Party chairman in Oakland County, Michigan, who started a counter-“Let’s Go Blue” chant on behalf of the University of Michigan, dismissed the idea the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry will undermine the senator in the Great Lake State, contending that he is “absolutely” an asset in the Midwest.

“The Michigan and Ohio delegates laughed, shook hands, and hugged after the chant,” Patrick told the Washington Examiner. “This also blew up a UoM Twitter feed, again in a good, national unity way.”

For a second Michigan Republican strategist, Vance improves the foundation on which the Trump campaign can “build an even bigger stronghold in the entire region,” given Ohio’s closeness in geography and culture to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

“Those are must-win states and, in addition to his loyalty to the former president, J.D. knows exactly how to speak to voters in those critical states,” the strategist told the Washington Examiner. “[That is] further evidenced by their choice of Michigan as the site of their first post-convention, post-nomination rally.

“Midwest voters have been suffering under relentless inflation and coastal elites don’t recognize that,” the strategist continued. “J.D. is acutely aware of that, as well as the failures of the Biden-Harris administration, such as East Palestine,” Ohio, the site of last year’s toxic train derailment, which Biden did not travel to until this March, attracting criticism from Republicans.

Vance was raised by his grandparents in Middletown, Ohio, amid his family’s encounters with addiction and abuse before he enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school in 2003 and deployed to Iraq as a war correspondent in 2005. Vance then enrolled at Ohio State before graduating summa cum laude in two years in 2009.

Vance went on to attend Yale Law School and worked for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Judge David Bunning, law firm Sidley Austin, and investment firms funded by the likes of AOL co-founder Steve Case and Case’s PayPal counterpart, Peter Thiel, after he graduated in 2013. He met his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, with whom he shares three children, there when they were both students. Vance wrote the 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which recounts his experiences.

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“It’s still a little bit weird to see my name on those signs,” Vance said Saturday. “Such an honor, such an incredible honor. You think about how I grew up, and you think about nobody in my immediate family had ever gone to college, and here I am getting to represent this ticket in the great state of Michigan, getting an opportunity to earn your vote as the next vice president of the United States. What a great country this is.”

Vance’s first solo rally will be Monday in Middletown.

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No. 2 Ohio State Wins Top 10 Battle over No. 9 Wolfpack, 26-10 | Ohio State

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December 12, 2025

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No. 2 Ohio State Wins Top 10 Battle over No. 9 Wolfpack, 26-10 | Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio — No. 2 Ohio State (8-0) remained undefeated with a 26-10 win over visiting No. 9 NC State (5-3) Friday at the Covelli Center.

How it Happened

125 – (1) Vincent Robinson (NCST) def. Brendan McCrone (OSU), MD, 12-3

Robinson opened the scoring with a takedown followed by a McCrone escape to send the bout to the second with NC State up 3-1. McCrone chose top to open the second after Robinson deferred choice. Robinson got the reversal to lead 5-2 after a McCrone escape. Robinson added a takedown to lead 8-2 after five minutes. Starting neutral, Robinson made it 11-2 with a takedown. McCrone escaped but with a point for riding time, Robinson won by major decision, 12-3.

133 – (2) Ben Davino (OSU) def. Zach Redding (NCST), D, 7-1

After two minutes, Davino scored the opening takedown for a 3-0 lead to go to the second. Davino chose bottom to start the second and quickly escaped for a 4-0 lead. Davino added a late takedown to lead 7-0 after two periods. Redding escaped to start the third to make it 7-1 Buckeyes. That’s the way if ended for a Davino win by decision, 7-1.

141 – (1) Jesse Mendez (OSU) def. (6) Ryan Jack (NCST), TF, 21-6

Mendez went on top 3-1 with a takedown and Jack escape. Mendez added another takedown on the edge of the mat to finish the period up 6-1. Mendez added three takedowns quickly to jump to a 15-4 advantage. Another pair of takedowns ended the match for a Mendez win by technical fall, 21-6.

149 – (6) Ethan Stiles (OSU) def. (7) Koy Buesgens (NCST), D, 4-3

There was no scoring in the opening the period. Stiles chose bottom to open the second and took the 1-0 lead with an escape for the only points of the middle period. Buesgens evened the bout at 1-all with an escape to open the third. Stiles was awarded a takedown that was challenged by NC State but upheld after video review for a 4-1 lead for the Buckeyes. Buesgens scored a late reversal but Stiles held on for a 4-3 win by decision.

157 – (4) Brandon Cannon (OSU) def. (11) Jackson Arrington (NCST), MD, 9-1

Cannon struck first with a late takedown for a 3-0 lead. Cannon chose bottom to start the second after Arrington deferred. Cannon scored a reversal for a 5-0 advantage after five minutes. The third period started neutral before a Cannon takedown made it 8-0. Arrington earned an escape but with a point for riding time, Cannon got the win by major decision, 9-1.

165 – (19) Will Denny (NCST) def. (11) Paddy Gallagher (OSU), SV-1, 6-5

Denny got on the board first with a takedown at the edge of the mat. Gallagher escaped to make it 3-1 Wolfpack at the end of the opening period. Gallagher closed the gap with an escape early in the second before taking the lead with a takedown to make it 5-4 after a Denny escape. The third started with Denny choosing bottom. He tied it at 5-all with an escape. The match then went to sudden victory. Denny got the win by decision, 6-5 when Gallagher was called for stalling.

174 – (5) Carson Kharchla (OSU) def. (3) Matthew Singleton (NCST), D, 8-4

Neither wrestler scored in the opening three minutes. Kharchla got the reversal for the first points of the match. Singleton then escaped to make it 2-1 Buckeyes. Kharchla scored a takedown to make it 5-2 after a Singleton escape. Singleton chose bottom to start the third and escaped to cut it to 5-3. Kharchla quickly added a takedown for an 8-4 advantage and a win by decision.

At 174, No. 5 Carson Kharchla (Ohio State) earns an 8–4 decision over No. 3 Matthew Singleton (North Carolina State). pic.twitter.com/Zz1SBQeaIT

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184 – (6) Dylan Fishback (OSU) def. Don Cates (NCST), MD, 12-1

Fishback opened the scoring with a takedown at the edge of the circle. Cates escaped before another Fishback takedown made it 6-1 before the end of the first. Fishback upped the lead with an early escape before adding another takedown for a 10-1 lead. Fishback finished off the match to win by major decision, 12-1.

197 – (14) Luke Geog (OSU) def. Cason Howle (NCST), MD, 17-4

Just a minute into the bout Geog scored the opening points with a takedown. Howle escaped before Geog added a takedown and a four-point nearfall to lead 10-1 after three minutes. Howle added an escape point to open the second. Geog, leading 10-2, escaped to open the third before adding a takedown for a 14-3 advantage. Another takedown got the win by major decision, 17-4.

HWT – (2) Isaac Trumble (NCST) def. (3) Nick Feldman (OSU), D, 5-1

Trumble jumped to a 3-0 lead with a takedown and built nearly 90 seconds of riding time before a Feldman escape make it 3-1. Trumble escaped to open the second to take a 4-1 lead into the third. Trumble finished off the match with a 5-1 win by decision with a point for riding time.

Up Next:

Ohio State will travel to Nashville Dec. 21 for the 2025 Collegiate Duals where they will take on Little Rock and No. 3 Iowa State.

Wt.	No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 9 NC State	OSU	NCST
125	(1) Vincent Robinson (NCST) def. Brendan McCrone (OSU), MD, 12-3	0	4
133	(2) Ben Davino (OSU) def. Zach Redding (NCST), D, 7-1	3	4
141	(1) Jesse Mendez (OSU) def. (6) Ryan Jack (NCST), TF, 21-6	8	4
149	(6) Ethan Stiles (OSU) def. (7) Koy Buesgens (NCST), D, 4-3	11	4
157	(4) Brandon Cannon (OSU) def. (11) Jackson Arrington (NCST), MD, 9-1	15	4
165	(19) Will Denny (NCST) def. (11) Paddy Gallagher (OSU), SV-1, 6-5	15	7
174	(5) Carson Kharchla (OSU) def. (3) Matthew Singleton (NCST), D, 8-4	18	7
184	(6) Dylan Fishback (OSU) def. Don Cates (NCST), MD, 12-1	22	7
197	(14) Luke Geog (OSU) def. Cason Howle (NCST), MD, 17-4	26	7
HWT	(2) Isaac Trumble (NCST) def. (3) Nick Feldman (OSU), D, 5-1	26	10
	Attendance: 3,895

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Ohio Goes to the Movies announces lineup for free, yearlong statewide film festival

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December 12, 2025

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Ohio Goes to the Movies announces lineup for free, yearlong statewide film festival

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio Goes to the Movies, the statewide film festival launching in February, is coming into focus. Organizers have released the initial schedule for the nearly yearlong event. Part of the state’s America 250 celebration, it will bring more than 280 screenings to all 88 counties. Each film is tied to the Buckeye State in some way, and all screenings are free.

“Ohio has played a significant role in the history of American film and continues to attract talent, productions and storytelling that resonate around the world,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement. “Ohio Goes to the Movies ensures that residents in every community can participate in the America 250 celebration and rediscover the films that connect us.”

From classic movies starring or made by Ohioans to Hollywood blockbusters shot in downtown Cleveland, the lineup highlights the depth of the state’s influence on the film industry. The festival is also meant to encourage movie fans to explore the state by attending screenings all over Ohio.

Here’s a list of events planned for Northeast Ohio’s seven-county region.

CUYAHOGA COUNTY

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Feb. 12. Phoenix Theatres Great Northern Mall.

“Major League.” March 1. Cinemark Strongsville at SouthPark Mall.

“Draft Day.” March 1. Cinemark Valley View.

“Welcome to Collinwood.” March 12. Cleveland History Center.

“Major League.” April 5. Capitol Theatre.

“Cool Hand Luke.” April 12. Cedar Lee Theatre.

“Draft Day.” April 23. Atlas Cinemas at Shaker Square.

“Toy Story 2.” June 24. Chagrin Documentary Film Festival HQ.

“The Scarlet Letter.” July 11. Cleveland Silent Film Festival at Cleveland Public Library.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” July 11. Great Lakes Science Center.

“More Than a Game.” Sept. 11. AMC Ridge Park Square.

“Superman.” Sept. 18. AMC Westwood Town Center.

“Passing Through.” Sept. 19. Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.

“Kill the Irishman.” Oct. 6. Atlas Cinemas Lakeshore.

GEAUGA COUNTY

“A Christmas Story.” June 11. Mayfield Road Drive-In Theatre.

LAKE COUNTY

“White Boy Rick.” March 11. Regal Willoughby Commons.

“Superman.” April 8. Atlas Cinemas Great Lakes Stadium.

“Air Force One.” July 7. Atlas Cinemas Diamond Center.

LORAIN COUNTY

“The Princess Bride.” April 22. Apollo Theatre.

“The Hunger Games.” Sept. 18. Regal Cobblestone Square.

MEDINA COUNTY

“Major League.” March 7. Hickory Ridge Cinema.

“Draft Day.” Sept. 12. Regal Medina.

PORTAGE COUNTY

“Unstoppable.” Feb. 22. Atlas Cinemas Barrington.

“Dog Man.” March 8. The Kent Stage.

“The Philadelphia Story.” March 19. Kent State University Museum.

“A Christmas Story.” June 10. Midway Twin Drive-In Theatre.

SUMMIT COUNTY

“The Big Short.” Feb. 21. Regal Hudson.

“The Avengers.” April 12. Akron Civic Theatre.

“Howard the Duck.” May 21. The Nightlight Cinema.

“Down by Law.” June 13. Akron–Summit County Public Library Main.

For a complete guide, go to ohiogoestothemovies.org.

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Multiple homes destroyed by fire in Meigs County, Ohio

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December 11, 2025

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Multiple homes destroyed by fire in Meigs County, Ohio

POMEROY, Ohio (WCHS) — A fire destroyed one home and damaged two others Wednesday evening, but then rekindled early Thursday morning and destroyed another home, police said.

The fire was first reported just after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday night in the 300 block of Wetzgall Street in Pomeroy, according to a press release from the Pomeroy Police Department.

According to police, the fire spread to the two homes on either side of the original home on fire. Firefighters contained the fire and saved the two surrounding homes, but the home that first caught fire was deemed a total loss.

Then, just after 3 a.m. on Thursday morning, the fire rekindled and spread to one of the other homes, resulting in a total loss of that home as well, police said.

Pomeroy police said both homes were occupied at the time of the fires, but all occupants of each home were able to exit their homes safely. Police also said that there were no reported injuries, though both families lost everything they owned due to the total losses of the homes.

The cause of the fire has not been determined, and the incident is still under active investigation by the Ohio State Fire Marshal’s Office, according to police.

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