Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
In 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists inducted Wilkinson into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.
In 2019, Wilkinson was named Senior Political Analyst for Cincinnati Public Radio as he retired from fulltime employment. He will continue to appear on Cincinnati Edition, write blogs on politics and his popular Tales from the Trail, all available on wvxu.org.
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan knows Ohio politics well enough that he understands he must make it clear to voters he won't be beholden to the Democratic Party if elected. -
While America was under attack on 9/11, Cincinnati voters were holding their first mayoral primary. "It was the oddest day of my career in politics," said then-mayor Charlie Luken. -
The Dayton mayor makes it clear how she is different from her political opponents and attempts to raise her name recognition throughout the state. -
If politics is, in part, entertainment where the stakes are rather high, the contest between Whaley and Cranley – two political allies and personal friends – may be great fun for political junkies to watch. Or not. -
There are signs the federal investigation into the passage of House Bill 6 is getting closer to the heart of the DeWine administration. -
Is there room in next May's primary for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio who doesn’t spend every waking moment kissing the ring of Donald J. Trump? We may be about to find out. -
Author J.D. Vance spent nearly as many months exploring a run for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat as Lewis and Clark spent exploring the wilderness of the American West. -
Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly may lack many things, but chutzpah is not among them. -
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. That's where Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine finds himself as he looks ahead to a 2022 run for re-election. -
Ohio is no stranger to scandal.In fact, it's been reported that, as of today, no state in the Union has a bigger scandal than the $61 million bribery case that federal prosecutors have brought against former Ohio Speaker Larry Householder and his associates for pushing a $1.3 billion bailout of Akron-based First Energy for two failing nuclear power plants.
