M.L. Schultze
Freelance Reporter/EditorM.L. Schultze is a freelance journalist. She spent 25 years at The Repository in Canton where she was managing editor for nearly a decade, then served as WKSU's news director and digital editor until her retirement. She’s an award-winning reporter and analyst who has appeared on NPR, "Here and Now" and the "Takeaway."
Schultze's work includes ongoing reporting on community-police relations, immigration, fracking and extensive state, local and national political coverage. She’s also past president of Ohio Associated Press Media Editors and the Akron Press Club.
A native of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area, Schultze graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in magazine journalism and political science. She lives in Canton with her husband, Rick Senften, the retired special projects editor at The Rep. Their daughter, Gwen, lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and two sons. Their son, Christopher, lives in Canton.
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The only constant in Lordstown, Ohio, is uncertainty. GM's announcement of stopping production of the Chevy Cruze leaves the plant "unallocated" and families, suppliers and schools in crisis.
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M.L. Schultze Update: The bipartisan committee working to resolve the pension crisis announced Thursday afternoon it would continue to work beyond its Friday, Nov. 30, deadline. The committee has not reached a solution and a press release from Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, who both serve on the committee, said they need more time.
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GM told the remaining workers at its sprawling plant in Lordstown Monday that it is going to shut down all U.S. production of the Chevy Cruze in March. -
M.L. Schultze Ohio’s overhaul of its payday lending laws will be fully implemented in April. At a conference in Washington Monday, it was applauded as a national model that ensures the short-term loans will continue to be offered without gouging consumers. During the discussion organized by the Pew Charitable Trusts, advocates for the overhaul said they battled more than three-dozen lobbyists for the payday lending industry who wanted to maintain the status quo, including interest rates and fees that averaged nearly 600 percent. -
Ohio’s reliably red 7th Congressional District will remain that way with Republican Bob Gibbs winning his fifth-consecutive term despite a well-funded… -
At the only debate in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District race, the candidates collided on the expected issues: health care, tax cuts and national security.… -
At the only debate in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District race, the candidates collided on the expected issues: healthcare, tax cuts and national security.… -
Ohio’s 7th Congressional District runs solidly red through a wide swath of largely rural northeast and central Ohio. But for the first time, a well-funded… -
Summa Health has approached nearly three dozen other health systems nationally to explore potential partnerships. And if a deal is reached, it could be… -
Manufacturing is among the first sectors that get hit by a recession … and the last to battle back. So for decades, a Northeast Ohio county like Trumbull…
