Anna Staver

Our elementary school asked students to dress like their hero today, and my daughter asked for a press badge so she could be a reporter like her mom. My heart may never recover.

Outgoing @OhioAG Dave Yost switches lead prosecutors for FirstEnergy bribery retrial cleveland.com/news/2026/05/o…

In other news, our family has the most adorable new member.

lots of corporate press / comms people asking me to share drafts of stories before publication (??) these days. baby that is not how it has ever worked

@CarCarr5 @jpelzer Patient information isn't included in the publicly available data (for obvious reasons). The state will have to investigate whether people received care and what care they got.

@jpelzer @AnnaStaver So there IS fraud. Got it. Now you, or your colleagues, can get to work finding out how much fraud there is. Maybe some, and I know this is going to sound crazy, investigative journalism by Ohio reporters is in order.

Republicans are pointing to a series from a conservative news outlet to assert widespread Medicaid fraud in Ohio. But as @AnnaStaver explains, the evidence - while concerning - doesn’t prove how much fraud there actually is cleveland.com/news/2026/05/o…

Ohio woman accused of illegally voting as a noncitizen in 2018 acquitted at trial  This is the first of six people Ohio AG Dave Yost accused to go to trial. A Franklin County judge sided with her defense argument -- entrapment signalohio.org/ohio-woman-acc…

@JayVingtSix It’s actually not that simple but it’s a longer conversation. You can email me, and I’d be happy to correspond about it.

@AnnaStaver Nick Shirley just showed up with a video camera. Luke Rosiak just went a step further. You don’t need SQL. You need curiosity and shoe leather.

Super weird assumption. The Ohio press corps competes with each other and national outlets all the time. It’s a friendly competition. I’ve never been mad about someone covering something. There aren’t enough of us. More is always more when it comes to coverage.

@flora67OH Actually, it’s genuine befuddlement.

@AnnaStaver Super weird assumption that got under your skin. Do tell.

@JayVingtSix I think it would be cool to learn SQL but it’s not something you pickup overnight.

@AnnaStaver Yes. But I’d be happy to let you make up for lost time by rooting out similar schemes in Cleveland. Go get those stories Anna.

@JayVingtSix An obvious story inside of a dataset with 1.2 billion entries that requires programming knowledge to query that Luke said he spent two months digging through? That’s honestly your conclusion?

@AnnaStaver You and others didn’t cover an obvious story because of your political leanings. So now you’re just saying “good job Luke” because really there’s nothing else you can say.

@TheCrustyOldMan @mikedovilla @VivekGRamaswamy @KeithFaber @Rob_McColley @matthuffman1 Feel free to register your complaint with my corporate overlords. I would love to be able to query datasets.

@AnnaStaver @mikedovilla @VivekGRamaswamy @KeithFaber @Rob_McColley @matthuffman1 If your tech team doesn't know how to create a database and query 1.2B entries, you need a new tech team.

The mainstream Ohio media’s loaded questions at this event with @VivekGRamaswamy, @KeithFaber, @Rob_McColley, and @matthuffman1 were the media’s own indictment. Where have THEY been in offering the investigative journalism that a free press is supposed to provide on this and many other policy issues? They are nothing more than the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party. Thank goodness for @lukerosiak and @jackwindsor for doing the work the legacy press refuses to do.

@CarCarr5 @jpelzer @BrentScher @lukerosiak Why would anyone from the Ohio press corps be mad? It makes no sense. We compete with each other and national outlets all the time. It is a super weird assumption.

@jpelzer @BrentScher @lukerosiak You've now said that twice.

I’m here in Columbus, Ohio, where @lukerosiak is back on the ground and the local reporters who all ignored the issue are now finally covering Medicaid fraud. They’re so mad, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot too. If you already know how to write, how to research, how to structure an argument or an article or whatever it is you’re trying to do with AI, you have a much keener sense of when it’s wrong.

Packed room, emotional debate as Canton weighs data center proposal cantonrep.com/story/news/loc… via @cantonrepdotcom

Ohio’s U.S. Senate race is officially in attack-ad season. Jon Husted is launching a $1.2 million TV spot hitting Sherrod Brown on the border, inflation and culture-war issues. Story from @AnnaStaver: cleveland.com/news/2026/05/o…

We hope this post about orphaned negatives makes you gruntled. An ‘orphaned negative’ is a word that SHOULD feel like it has a related word, but doesn’t. ‘Nonchalant’ is an orphaned negative because there is no ‘chalant.’

NEW: The NYT sent an email to freelancers today forbidding contributors from submitting "any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI. The "reminder" follows a string of AI incidents at the paper: futurism.com/artificial-int…

BREAKING: Gov. Mike DeWine picks Andy Wilson, the director of the Ohio Dept. of Public Safety, to become Ohio's next attorney general. He'll finish the final six months of Dave Yost's term starting in June. cleveland.com/news/2026/05/g…