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.

Top state lawmaker on JobsOhio: No hearings planned over $60,000 podcast deal cleveland.com/news/2026/03/t…

Ohio becomes 19th state to ban ranked-choice voting in elections cleveland.com/news/2026/03/o…

US Sen. @BernieMoreno has asked private-equity giant The Carlyle Group to give up a $4.5M state tax credit for a Northeast Ohio data-center project that will create 10 jobs. Moreno called the incentives "ridiculous" and "a sweetheart deal for Wall Street" cleveland.com/news/2026/03/s…

A group of rural Ohioans has submitted signatures for a constitutional amendment banning new data centers. cleveland.com/news/2026/03/r…

Did you know tech companies ask local officials not to share how much water or electricity a data center will need until the deal is done? “They’re often used to pre-empt any public backlash until it’s too late,” @Pat_Garofalo said. 🔽 cleveland.com/news/2026/03/o…

This is why I obsessively check my spam folder. thehill.com/regulation/cou…

Life as a journalist today and every day.

Columbus-area firm questioned over $220M Noem ad controversy: cleveland.com/news/2026/03/c…

Free idea to drum up enrollment at my alma mater, Portage County's Kent State University: Big Foot studies major

The Ohio legislature gave @GovMikeDeWine 12 standing ovations during his state of the state speech. Two of them were for @FranDeWine.

.@GovMikeDeWine says, “Every school district in Ohio can learn from East Cleveland.” This wasn’t on my bingo card.

Don't forget to play along at home. Speech starts at noon.

If Monday after daylight saving had a face…

This puts Ted Carter's quote about bringing back Gordon Gee in an entirely different light dispatch.com/story/news/edu…

Less than three years into his tenure, President Ted Carter is out at Ohio State. cleveland.com/news/2026/03/o…

@columbuslibrary Here me out: How about a realistic cake that looks like a book?

starting to think i should've told the CEO before hitting send

The real sign of AI writing is not superficial stuff like “It’s not X—it’s Y”. It’s the hollowness. Polished writing but relatively mundane ideas. The giveaway is that you’re less impressed when you read it the second time. With good writing, it should be the other way around. I’m not sure this is inherently about AI. It’s more about the fact that people tend to turn to AI when they don’t have much to say. Reading text that has the syntactic smell of AI is mildly annoying, but when I read hollow writing I feel the writer is wasting my time, which is much more frustrating. So don’t do it. People are unlikely to respond to your email or subscribe to your newsletter or whatever you’re trying to get them to do. And they’ll probably remember that you betrayed their trust as a reader.

10K likes and we get our CEO to eat a hardcover book like it's a hamburger

@AndrewJTobias I don't know how to feel about the fact that I got this joke.

Clearly he's trying to get the word out about the Big Arch

Today in unexpected Ohio Statehouse guests, the honorable Grimace (I-McDonaldland).