Michael F. Curtin, author of the first two editions of The Ohio Politics Almanac, spent 38 years with The Columbus Dispatch, rising from reporter to associate publisher, vice president, and chief operating officer. He retired in 2007 and in 2012 was elected to the first of two terms in the Ohio House.

Joe Hallett retired in 2014 as senior editor of The Columbus Dispatch after 42 years of mostly covering politics for the Dispatch, The (Cleveland, USA) Plain Dealer, and The (Toledo) Blade.

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