This should come as no surprise: Wall Street toasted Penn National Gaming Inc. over the passage of Ohio's casino measure and punished the company that bankrolled most of the opposition.
Penn, which spent half of the money to promote Issue 3 and will build two of the four [...]
Dispatch political reporters Alan Johnson, Mark Niquette and James Nash discuss the passage of Issue 3.
[...]The House voted for a redo today on a bill banning abusive credit card practices, but the Senate is still working on its version.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, a member of the House Financial Services Committee that initially crafted the bill, was among the lawmakers today who voted to [...]
A Republican candidate with a historic name says he won't drop out of the GOP race for the nod to take on Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, in the central Ohio 15th congressional district - despite what he claims is the urging of the Franklin County Republican Party.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown tomorrow will participate in a live video "chat" at the White House tomorrow, with the topic health care reform, the Obama administration said.
The Ohio Democrat will join Jared Bernstein, a White House economic advisor, in answering
"frequently asked questions on health insurance reform he" [...]
In a not unexpected move, the association representing many Ohio physicians has formally come out in opposition to the pending House health care bill.
One of the the big reasons the Ohio State Medical Association is against the legislation is because it doesn't permanently pay for higher Medicare reimbursement' [...]
Continuing his "green jobs" campaign, Sen. Sherrod Brown today touted a new report asserting that federal legislation of the type backed by Brown himself could create more than 51,000 jobs at existing Ohio companies.
The report by the Blue Green Alliance, a consortium of environmental advocates and labor unions, [...]
Less than a day after Ohioans approved casinos at four casinos across Ohio, at least one lawmaker is already looking to scrap much of the plan in favor of a deal he thinks is better for the state.
Rep. Clyde Evans, R-Rio Grande, unveiled a new constitutional amendment [...]
More than 40 percent of registered voters statewide went to the polls Tuesday, up from 31 percent in the last off-year election in 2007, unofficial results show.
Tuesday's turnout matched the turnout in 2005, which was the highest in an off-year election in Ohio since 1997, when 45.6 percent [...]
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