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David DeWitt
Ohio Capital Journal Editor-in-Chief David DeWitt has more than 15 years of 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.
Happy Pride Month. Creepy, bully Republican lawmakers are fixated on assaulting our community
By: David DeWitt - June 3, 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 […]
The Ghost of an Idea: A reflection on Charles Dickens and the history and meaning of the season
By: David DeWitt - 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 […]
Ohio Republicans’ attempted erasure of a 10-year-old rape victim is incredibly sick and disturbed
By: David DeWitt - July 15, 2022
The first and most important thing to recognize right now is that a heinous, violent crime was committed on a 10-year-old Ohio child, and thankfully justice has now found the alleged perpetrator. A Columbus man was indicted Wednesday in a case that made national and international headlines about a 10-year-old girl who had to travel to Indiana […]