The Buckeye Institute

10/08/2026

In Washington’s Tax Gamble, Buckeye partnered with Washington Policy Center to model the economic impacts of SB6346, a 9.9% Washington state income tax on high earners.

STELA—Buckeye's dynamic scoring model—predicts that SB6346 would ravage the state’s economy with a loss of $4.9 billion in economic growth, high-income earners leaving the state, and fewer businesses being opened.

Using STELA--The Buckeye Institute's dynamic scoring model--The Buckeye Institute revealed that a proposed 9.9 percent Washington state income tax on high earners included in Senate Bill 6346 would ravage the state's economy with a loss of $4.9 billion in economic growth. The findings were publis...

10/02/2026

Buckeye’s Robert Alt joins legal experts and wh***ey fans for an update on Ream v. U.S. Dept of Treasury & McNutt v. U.S. Dept. of Justice—Buckeye’s two cases challenging the federal ban on home distilling.

09/29/2026

Buckeye filed its brief with the Ohio Supreme Court in Kresevic v. Kimmel, asking the court to accept the case and reverse the lower court rulings, telling the city of Akron that a settlement package Ms. Kresevic received from a former employer does not represent wages and is therefore not subject to the city’s municipal income tax.

“Under the lower court interpretation of Ohio law, Ohioans must challenge a city’s refusal to provide a municipal income tax refund before the city has determined how much tax is owed and before the city has refused to issue the refund. This ‘sentence first—verdict afterwards’ logic defies common sense.”

This case affects the rights of every Ohioan who pays municipal income tax, and if the lower court rulings are allowed to stand, it will allow cities to evade Ohio law.

The Buckeye Institute filed its brief with the Ohio Supreme Court in Kresevic v. Kimmel, asking the court to accept the case and reverse the lower court rulings, telling the city of Akron that a settlement package Ms. Kresevic received from a former employer does not represent wages and is theref...

09/25/2026

Buckeye filed its amicus brief in Wachter v. James, calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to tell New York that its Orwellian “guidance letter” silences speech and violates the First Amendment.

“Albany may have dressed up its Orwellian edict as a guidance letter, but its threat to remove school board members from office for expressing opinions different from the government’s—or allowing citizens at public hearings to express contrary opinions—is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”

Joining Buckeye on its brief were the Center for American Liberty, Defense of Freedom Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Kate DelliCarpini, president of the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District’s Board of Education in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

Wachter v. James is being argued by our friends at Southeastern Legal Foundation.

The Buckeye Institute filed its amicus brief in Wachter v. James, calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to tell New York that its Orwellian "guidance letter" silences speech and violates the First Amendment. "Albany may have dressed up its Orwellian edict as a guidance lette...

09/24/2026

Buckeye joins coalition—Build Ohio First—focused on driving economic growth through affordable, reliable, abundant energy.

They just released a new statewide poll that shows Ohioans overwhelmingly support a buildout of energy infrastructure to modernize the grid to meet Ohio’s future energy needs.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6a70a1035f8f876c98a940cc/t/6ab577d6e15c601e41267602/1790277590694/Build-Ohio-First_Press-Release.pdf

09/24/2026

Buckeye called on the Federal Judicial Center to remove the “How Science Works” chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, warning that, in violation of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, the chapter smuggles activist climate-change advocacy into the very document federal judges consult to keep unreliable expert testimony out of the courtroom.

We were joined by Advancing American Freedom, American Legislative Exchange Council, Boundary Line Foundation, Caesar Rodney Institute, Center for Practical Federalism, Commonwealth Foundation, Florida Legal Foundation, State Policy Network, and Sutherland Institute.

The Buckeye Institute called on the Federal Judicial Center to remove the "How Science Works" chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, warning that, in violation of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, the chapter smuggles activist climate-change advocacy into the very document federal ...

09/22/2026

Fox News.com features Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury—one of Buckeye’s two cases challenging the federal ban on home distilling.

“For home brewers interested in taking the next step from b**r or w**e to wh***ey, gin or other spirits, the dispute could ultimately determine whether a hobby long prohibited under federal law can move out of the commercial distillery and into the home.”

An Ohio man's Supreme Court case challenges a more than 150-year federal ban on home distilling that carries felony charges, fines and up to five years in prison.

09/20/2026

The Columbus Dispatch features the success of Buckeye’s Robert Alt in become one of fewer than 500 to reach the top of the world’s Seven Summits—the tallest mountain on each continent. 🏔️

Robert Alt overcame a fear of heights to climb the Seven Summits to honor his late father's memory.

09/18/2026

Buckeye’s Rea Hederman commented on the August 2026 jobs report from ODJFS, saying...

“While Ohio’s unemployment rate fell to 3.3 percent in August, the labor force participation rate also fell to 61.3 percent, meaning more Ohioans are no longer looking for work. Although Ohio has a lower unemployment rate than the national average, the national job market significantly outpaced Ohio in August, with more workers looking for jobs, a declining unemployment rate, and 127,000 new private-sector jobs.”

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The Buckeye Institute commented on the August 2026 jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), saying, "While Ohio's unemployment rate fell to 3.3 percent in August, the labor force participation rate also fell to 61.3 percent, meaning more Ohioans are no longer looki...