Howard Wilkinson is a reporter who covers local and state politics in Ohio. He is Senior Political Analyst for Cincinnati Public Radio. He also appears on "Cincinnati Edition," and writes blogs on politics and his column "Tales from the Trail." Wilkinson spent 30 years covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. He covered every Ohio governor’s race between 1974 and 2012 an 12 presidential nominating conventions. 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.