Catching Our Eye News Roundup, June 10, 2026

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Catching Our Eye

• The Midwest. The Ohio Newsroom’s Kendall Crawford reports, “For the first time in decades, more people are moving into the Midwest than out.”

For decades, Midwestern cities have struggled to retain residents. As manufacturing jobs left, so did people.

The city of Akron lost one third of its population from 1960 to 2020. In the city of Cleveland, it was 60%. Dayton faced a similar plummet in population – leaving behind shuttered factories and empty storefronts.

But, now there are signs that the trend is starting to reverse. For the first time in a long time, these Ohio cities are seeing more people migrate into their metros than move away.

• Medicaid. Spectrum News 1’s Chrissa Loukas reports, “Medicaid provider, patient react to payment cuts.”

A company that’s one of dozens that the Ohio Department of Medicaid is suspending payments to, classifying them as high-risk, is now fighting back…

A Mother’s Day gift hangs on Melissa Hudson’s wall. She’s a single mother of three whose life was turned upside down 12 years ago and depends on Medicaid and on home care services.

“Started back in 2014 as a work-related illness that came to me, and ever since I’ve been having medical complications, open heart surgeries,” Hudson said. “I receive nursing services for my many medical conditions: heart, kidneys, lungs, congestive heart failure.”

Hudson receives those services from a company called Dynamic Home Health Care. But just a few days ago, the Ohio Department of Medicaid stopped paying them. They designated the business as high-risk.

Lorna Cook, who’s a registered nurse and legal nurse consultant for Dynamic Home Health Care, said it has caused many problems.

• New AG. Cleveland.com’s Mary Frances McGowan reports, “Andy Wilson begins work as new Ohio attorney general.”

Andy Wilson began his work as Ohio’s 52nd attorney general Monday, being sworn in over the weekend to finish the final seven months of Dave Yost’s term…

Wilson, a Springfield Republican, was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to take over as AG for Yost, who announced last month that he would resign June 7 to take a job with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative Christian legal nonprofit.

• Billions of dollars worth of Trump family wins. Reuters reports, “Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t.”

Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they’ve wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.

• Global conflicts. NPR reports, “Conflicts are on the rise globally, at the highest level since WWII, data shows.”

If you’ve been thinking it seems like there are more wars raging in the world these days, it turns out you’re right and the data proves it.

A new study by researchers at a university in Sweden recorded the highest number of conflicts between states in 2025 since World War II, and the highest number of fatalities recorded since the Rwandan genocide.