If five of OhioÂ’s 21 Republican senators are willing to vote for the latest proposed budget compromise, the long impasse will come to an end.
Senate Democrats say their 12 members are ready to vote yes. House Democrats say all of their members will vote for the plan. But [...]
Declaring herself to be "in campaign mode,'' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., today brushed aside concerns that Republicans could take the House in next year's elections, telling reporters, "I think we will have a Democratic majority.'' Pelosi made her comments today in a session with reporters from newspapers covering [...]
The latest effort at a state budget compromise would allow the state chancellor to select three university construction projects to operate under overhauled public construction laws.
While there was some hope being expressed by House Democrats, Senate Republicans, prior to heading into a closed-door caucus, gave no indication of [...]
The only central Ohio lawmaker going after earmarks this year is boasting of getting $7.6 million worth in a 2010 defense spending bill approved by the House.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says she views earmarks, amounts of money set aside for congressional pet projects, as legitimate ways for [...]
Sen Sherrod Brown wants the health care bill being debated in the Senate to include a provision protecting consumers with life-threatening illnesses from losing insurance coverage if they participate in a clinical trial.
The Ohio Democrat has co-authored a bipartisan amendment with GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas [...]
Sen. Sherrod Brown is backing a plan unveiled today by Vice President Biden to expand a clean energy manufacturing tax credit cap to $5 billion - as long as the money goes to create jobs in the United States.
The Ohio Democrat said that he is concerned about reports [...]
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner agreed to open shop this weekend so opponents of legalizing slot machines at racetracks could collect signatures up until Sunday's deadline for placing the issue on the November 2010 ballot.
LetOhioVote.org expects to submit about 350,000 signatures, said Carlo LoParo, [...]
Officially, the Ohio Statehouse will be closed Dec. 25-27 in observance of Christmas.
But what if the governor forces the General Assembly to hang around town until the budget fight is resolved?
There's always the Statehouse underground parking garage. It's heated and will remain open throughout the weekend.
Other [...]
A Columbus restaurant can continue to operate dozens of slot-like games for a few more weeks, a judge ruled today.
Judge Harland H. Hale of the Franklin County Municipal Court ordered Spinners Cafe not to add any new Sweepstakes machines, but said the West Side restaurant could continue [...]
Principles don't pay the bills. Nor do they always win elections.
That may be the lesson from last month's Issue 3, where the moral and social opponents of gambling struggled to be heard amid the din of rival gambling groups trying to sway voters.
They look like scratch-off lottery tickets, and you can win up to $7,777 playing them.
But they're not lottery tickets, and they have nothing to do with the Ohio Lottery Commission. Instead, they're prepaid phone cards.
A Florida company, Odyssey Promotion, is trying to sell Ohio retailers on [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, hopes this week to attend the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Aides to the Ohio senator say he would only be able to attend the conference in Denmark, however, if the Senate schedule gives him enough time to leave Washington.
The Ohio Republican Party Central Committee on Friday endorsed Justice Maureen O'Connor for election next year as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
The party's 66-member governing board unanimously endorsed O'Connor to replace Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, who will be forced to retire at the end of [...]
Ohio Right to Life today became the first prominent group to oppose a plan by Ohio's top jurist and the League of Women Voters to change how justices are elected to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The league, the Ohio State Bar Association and Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer [...]
It may be a good omen for Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks: The Democrat has already won a new seat in 2010.
Brooks, who is running against Republican incumbent Pat Tiberi for Ohio's 12th District Congressional seat, was elected this week as president of the County Commissioners'' [...]
House Republican Leader John Boehner of West Chester urged President Barack Obama to press for congressional approval of pending free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea.
In a letter to Obama, Boehner wrote that “bipartisan support’’ for the three trade deals “already exists’’ in Congress. “In the [...]
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency director Chris Korleski will be in Copenhagen next week for the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
Korleski will be a panelist at the session "Designing Environmental Markets with Equity for All" and plans to post updates daily, Monday through Thursday, on the state agency's' [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy has a new spokesman.
Josh Rosenblum is stepping into the communication director's role for the Columbus Democrat. His background includes stints as communications director for Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez, D-Texas, and press secretary for Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
Rosenblum, 31, is a native of New York [...]
Two Franklin County-based organizations are getting money for home-foreclosure counseling from the state's settlement with a mortgage lender accused of improprieties, Attorney General Richard Cordray's office said.
The Columbus Housing Partnership and the Columbus Urban League are among the 14 agencies statewide to share in the $1 million [...]
A new poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that Republican John Kasich has opened a nine point lead against incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland in 2010 Ohio race for governor.
The telephone survey of 500 likely Ohio voters showed that 48 percent favor Kasich and 39 percent favor Strickland. Kasich held [...]
The Big Three, also known as the governor, speaker and Senate president, sat down together this morning but did not appear to make much progress in resolving the budget impasse.
“I don’t think we made progress this morning,” said Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood. “I find it very discouraging because [...]
Could Gov. Ted Strickland, whose 2006 campaign theme was Turnaround Ohio, have to stand for re-election while Ohio still faces double-digit unemployment?
In a report unveiled today, his economic advisers seem to think it might happen.
Strickland regularly gets economic information from an informal group of economists that provides [...]
State officials are warning jobless Ohioans of a national scam targeting those receiving unemployment benefits.
Victims have received fraudulent text message on their cell phones claiming to be from state unemployment agencies, according to Attorney General Richard Cordray and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, which [...]
David Plouffe, manager of President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, today endorsed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.
No surprise here, according to a campaign aide for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Fisher's Democratic opponent for Senate. The Fisher campaign is a client [...]
The state lawmaker who sheparded and revamped Gov. Ted Strickland's new evidence-based school-funding system is fed up with school districts complaining about the all-day kindergarten requirement.
Rep. Stephen Dyer, D-Green, said well-off school districts shouldn't be putting off implementation of a new state requirement that districts offer all-day everyday' [...]
Although it's nearly a year away, the race for central Ohio's 15th Congressional District already is attracting national attention.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, a Columbus Democrat who narrowly won last year after narrowly losing in 2006, will be defending her seat in Congress against her 2008 opponent, former state [...]
Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost said the Ohio Republican Party should have endorsed someone in the race for Ohio attorney general, and he should have been that someone.
That's not surprising, except for one thing: Yost, by most accounts, is the underdog against the Republican establishment's preferred candidate, [...]
GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio amplified today in an interview on his at least partial support for President Obama's desire to use $200 billion in surplus bank bailout money (known as TARP) for job creation efforts.
Like most Republicans, Voinovich wants to use the excess TARP money [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich is barely mentioned in a press release by the authors of a proposal to establish a bipartisan fiscal task force armed with some real power, and the Ohio Republican was near the back of the line to speak on the topic at a Capitol Hill [...]
A resolution that could allow Franklin County to opt out of getting a casino is a starting point in discussions designed to pressure the casino developer to move the planned gambling facility out of the Arena District, the resolution's sponsor said today.
Sen. David Goodman, R-New Albany, said [...]
GOP Rep. Steve Austria of Beavercreek responded to President Obama's speech by saying that "more government spending and debt is not the answer to growing our economy."
But when asked if he supported the small business tax cuts in Obama's proposal, Austria indicated that he did, but wants them [...]
The Senate tonight killed an anti-abortion amendment that was backed by Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio.The amendment, which would have prohibited private and government health care plans in a new insurance exchange from covering abortion, failed by a vote of 54-45.
In a floor speech, Voinovich endorsed the amendment [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says sheÂ’s in agreement with President ObamaÂ’s jobs creating strategy.
“People in central Ohio know that we need to create jobs, not just retain jobs, which is why I agree that we should help the economy with fiscally responsible small business loans, tax [...]
His lawyers don't necessarily expect to win this round, but attorney general scandal figure Anthony Gutierrez pleaded his workers' compensation case today before a representative of the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation.
Gutierrez was the central figure in the sexual-harassment scandal that brought down his then-boss, former Attorney [...]
It comes with a different name and different main authors, but Sen. George V. Voinovich is nonetheless pleased that his long-running attempt to establish a budget overhaul commission with some fiscal teeth if moving ahead, according to his office.
Unveiling legislation to set up a "bipartisan task force for" [...]
GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich says he is “encouraged” that President Obama’s economy speech today “recognized that our federal spending is out of control.”
The Ohio Republican, who is much more supportive in his reaction to ObamaÂ’s speech than many in the GOP, is hoping that Obama will back [...]
GOP Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township says President Obama is using the wrong pot of money for new job creation efforts.
Obama said in his speech today that he wants to use an unspecified amount of surplus bank bailout money – the estimate is the total is about [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner, a West Chester Republican, says President Obama’s proposal to use surplus bank bailout funds for job creation initiatives amounts to a “slush fund for politicians” and continues “Washington Democrats’ unprecedented deficit spending binge.”
Boehner and other Republicans want estimated $200 billion in excess “TARP” [...]
Sen. Sherrod Brown was quick to say today how much he likes at least one part of President Obama’s jobs creation proposal – perhaps because it mirrors Brown’s own legislation.
The Ohio Democrat earlier this year wrote a bill temporarily raising the ceiling on some Small Business Administration [...]
As positions harden on both sides of the aisle, another week will pass by without an agreement on filling the $851 million budget shortfall.
The Senate Finance Committee, where the budget fix bill has been sitting since October, canceled its hearings scheduled for this afternoon and tomorrow. The decision [...]
Representing the progressive wing of his party, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is one of 10 Democratic senators holed up today in search of a final health care reform bill compromise - at least one amenable to all Democrats - on how to implement a government-run insurance plan.
Brown [...]
The 19-member Ohio Board of Education is back to full strength after Gov. Ted Strickland filled a last vacancy on the panel.
Kathy Leavenworth, 64, of Russell, will fill a seat vacated by former board President Jennifer Sheets who resigned last summer. It is one of eight at-large [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland has tapped one of his top policy advisors to oversee OhioÂ’s Medicaid programs.
Amy Rohling McGee, 39, of Columbus, was named interim executive director of the Executive Medicaid Management Agency. She replaces Cristal Thomas who left after being appointed by the Obama administration as the [...]
Not surprisingly, some construction contractors are feeling left out after they were not invited by Senate Republicans to testify on a proposed overhaul of public construction laws.
Leaders of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association sent a letter this week to Sen. John A. Carey [...]
For more than a week, Sen. Sherrod Brown and his staff tried to get his name attached as a co-sponsor to a Republican health care amendment. Nine times his staff members contacted the office of GOP senators and nine times they came away without any answer.
So today, Brown, [...]
An executive whose Oregon-based windows and doors company has plants in Ohio went to the White House jobs summit yesterday, his invite at the recommendation of Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover.
Attending the summit, which President Obama convened to address tackling the still double digit unemployment rate, was Ron Saxton, [...]
House Speaker Armond Budish told Senate President Bill M. Harris today that he is willing to work with him on construction and prison sentencing reform, but the measures “cannot be passed as a part of (the budget fix) in the next week or two.”
“Given the very short timeline [...]
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee will enter the debate over the state budget fix on Monday when he testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in support of public construction reform being pushed by Senate Republicans.
Lawmakers continue to debate how to fill the $851 million budget hole. [...]
Dispatch political reporters Alan Johnson and Jonathan Riskind talk about President Barack Obama's plan for Afghanistan.
The state's highest court has agreed to consider whether state officials overstepped their authority when they outlawed prizes worth more than $10 from so-called games of skill such as Tic Tac Fruit.
The Ohio Supreme Court today accepted an appeal from Attorney General Richard Cordray to a portion' [...]
Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman agrees with President Obama that more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but doesn't like the president's decision to impose a timetable for beginning to withdraw some of those soldiers.
"I agree with President Obama's decision to follow the advice of his military commanders and'" [...]
The Senate Finance Committee was delayed again this morning, but the chairman, Sen. John A. Carey Jr., R-Wellston, said he is optimistic the Senate will take action on the budget shortfall by the end of the day.
Legislative leaders from both parties and the governor are trying to [...]
Count U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher among the Democrats who are opposed to President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.
On the one hand, says Fisher, "Keeping America safe is our most sacred duty. ThatÂ’s why I believe we must continue to aggressively target al-Qaeda" [...]
Like many Republicans, Rep. Steve Austria of Beavercreek backs President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, but the endorsement came with criticism of the length of time Obama took to make the move.
“It is good the president finally made a decision on this important issue," Austria" [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says Obama's speech tonight laid out a "military strategy, a civilian surge, and the need for addressing the presence of Al Qaeda in other parts of the world, including Pakistan."
Kilroy said she understands both "the need to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda," [...]
If the reaction by Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is any indication, President Obama still has a way to go to win over fellow Democrats, even after the commander in chiefÂ’s nationally televised speech tonight laying out his Afghanistan strategy.
Brown before the speech said he was “very skeptical” [...]
Giving away $3 million isnÂ’t so easy.
Franklin County commissioners are eager to cut a check for the last dollars needed to build Columbus Commons, an urban park replacing the dead City Center Mall.
But the grant will have to wait until spring when a legal land description of [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland came to Washington today to tell the U.S. International Trade Commission that it is time to impose penalties on Chinese companies allegedly dumping too-cheap steel tubing into American markets.
Earlier this year, steel mills in Lorain and Youngstown and Warren were forced to lay off workers [...]
Jobless Ohioans were jamming state phone lines this morning to find out why they didn't receive their unemployment benefits as expected.
Brian Harter, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said there was a computer system failure over the weekend which has been corrected, however' [...]
There are 111,255 uninsured children in Ohio and most of them qualify for tax-funded health care but aren't enrolled.
While Gov. Ted Strickland's plan to expand eligibility in the State Children's Health Insurance Program to higher-income children is on hold because of a lack of funding, child advocates' [...]
As expected, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman today endorsed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for U.S. Senate in 2010.
Coleman and Fisher have been allied since their losing gubernatorial campaign in 1998. Fisher, who had selected Coleman, then a city council member, as his running mate, was defeated for governor [...]
The national Republicans today assailed Democratic Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner for what they described as “her inflammatory and baseless attacks’’ against General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“Jennifer Brunner should immediately apologize not only to General McChrystal, but to all American troops, for her inflammatory [...]
It's not much of a secret that the establishment of the Democratic Party wants Lee Fisher to be the 2010 U.S. Senate race candidate, not Jennifer Brunner . But there is fresh evidence in an invitation for a Fisher fundraiser next week in Washington hosted by none other than [...]
Only two of the seven Ohio horsetracks were able to come up with license fees for slot machines in September -- and that was before voters approved full-blown casinos that would compete with the tracks.
But that doesn't mean the idea of slot machines -- officially known as' [...]
With billions of dollars up for grabs, it's perhaps no surprise that lobbyists have gotten to work trying to influence which states the Obama administration gives money for high-speed passenger rail.
The federal government's $8 billion allocation for rail projects around the country "is poised to become Washington's latest" [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio agrees with those who say the United States should get more help from allies in the war in Afghanistan. But while Voinovich is awaiting details of President Obama's policy tomorrow, the Ohio Republican seems supportive of Obama's decision to send more troops to [...]
Two Franklin County wind and solar energy savings projects are among 25 statewide to share more than $13 million in federal stimulus funds. (See entire list here).
Gov. Ted Strickland, joined by other elected and state officials, announced the grants today in Cleveland at Lincoln Electric, which will receive [...]
Twelve elected Democrats from Lucas County today endorsed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for the party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
The officials, including seven countywide officeholders and Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, opted to endorse Fisher rather than his opponent for the Democratic nomination, Secretary of State Jennifer [...]
Ahead of President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday when the president is expected to outline plans to send another 30,000 or more troops to Afghanistan, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio says he remains "very skeptical" about such a move by his fellow Democrat in the White House.
It's' [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner doesn't have a vote, of course, but the Ohio Democrat seems to typify the intra-party problem facing President Obama Tuesday night when he reportedly will announce that he will send another 30,000 or so U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.
Brunner says in a release this' [...]
Ohio will get more than $5 million from a pharmaceutical company that was found to have overcharged the state Medicaid program for three nasal sprays, Attorney General Richard Cordray's office said today.
Ohio's share of a $95.5 million multi-state settlement with Aventis Pharmaceutical Inc. is $5,019,441.83, Cordray's' [...]
Usually, losing parties in Ohio Supreme Court cases accept their defeats quietly. Not Jeff Norman.
Norman, whose companies were hammered in October with a record-breaking $6.4 million verdict for allegedly fleecing senior citizens, today lost his bid to have the Supreme Court take another look at his [...]
Sex offenders are in the legislative crosshairs again.
Rep. Bill Coley, R-West Chester, has introduced a bill that would increase the penalty for sexual imposition committed against children ages 13 to 16. The offense would be a first-degree misdemeanor instead of third-degree.
Coley noted that the penalty for gross [...]
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is taking the side of gun owners in a U.S. Supreme Court case over whether Chicago can ban handguns.
Cordray's office said today that it is co-sponsoring a friend-of-the court brief in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, arguing that gun rights [...]
Calls for help to the Ohio Benefit Bank hotline reveal how bad things have gotten for some Ohioans.
The Benefit Bank surveys about one of every 10 callers about their personal situation. Here is information from roughly 500 calls in October. The vast majority were seeking help with [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland is in Washington today to share a meal with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - but the Ohio Democrat won't be at the much-talked about state dinner at the White House tonight being hosted by President Obama.
Instead, Strickland was invited to a lunch for the' [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland unleashed a torrent (296) clemency decisions Monday, but Bradley Tapp's case was not among them.
Strickland waited nearly three full years into his term before making a non-death penalty clemency decision, but when he did he cleared the deck of all leftover cases from former Gov. [...]
Letting the governor appoint members to the Ohio Supreme Court might offer Democrats their best shot of breaking the Republican monopoly on the bench. But that doesn't mean every Democrat is in favor.
Mary Jane Trapp, an appellate judge in northeast Ohio who is running for the Supreme' [...]
Ohio’s Republican members of Congress wrote a letter to Gov. Ted Strickland last week encouraging him to create an independent, bipartisan board to monitor the state’s use of federal stimulus dollars, but the governor called the letter “a political document.”
The letter, signed by House Minority Leader John [...]
State Rep. Jay Goyal will attend the first state dinner hosted by the Obama administration Tuesday evening, when he helps welcome the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.
“I am honored to represent Ohio at the White House where I will discuss the issues and concerns facing Ohio’s working [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland didn't mince words last week when asked what he thought about a proposal by some Senate Republicans to fill an $851.5 million hole in the state budget.
"This is a joke," Strickland said of the GOP plan, which failed to get enough votes from Republicans' [...]
Two central Ohio lawmakers, a House Democrat and a Senate Republican, say they are moving ahead on proposals that would give individual counties more oversight over casinos, or even outright reject them.
After 58 percent of Franklin County residents voted against state Issue 3, which will allow the building [...]
The AFL-CIO says it will sue if state leaders try to use $200 million in casino licensing fees to help plug an $851 million hole in the state budget.
“The constitutional amendment passed by voters earmarks the $200 million in licensing fees for regional workforce and economic development,” said [...]
Supporters of changing how justices are elected to the Ohio Supreme Court were buoyed today by the results of a survey showing support for reforms.
Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, Ohio State Bar Association President Barbara J. Howard and League of Women Voters President Meg G. Flack [...]
Handing Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, a major victory, the federal government today reversed course and decided to allow state and local governments to use homeland security grants to maintain emergency equipment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the decision just days after a House committee approved a bill [...]
The idea may not be as fanciful as this one, but state rail officials are eyeing some innovation with their plan to extend passenger rail service through Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati.
The Ohio Rail Development Commission yesterday passed a motion expressing its preference for Diesel [...]
As expected GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich is blasting the Senate's Democrat-authored health care bill.
The Ohio Republican won't be in the chamber Saturday if a procedural vote known as cloture is taken. Sixty-votes are needed to prevent a filibuster - Republicans are nearly unanimously opposed to the bill' [...]
Dispatch political reporters Darrel Rowland and Jim Siegel discuss the latest proposals for dealing with the state budget shortfall.
[...]Attorney General Richard Cordray's office insists that only courts -- not it -- can decide whether slot-like Sweepstakes machines are legal in Ohio. But at least two courts already have decided.
Anyone following Ohio's topsy-turvy debate over gambling probably can guess the outcome: The courts came to opposite [...]
The conservative activist who led the fight against casinos in Ohio in the 1990s and this decade isn't letting his fellow conservatives off the hook over the passage of a casino issue this month.
David P. Zanotti, head of the Ohio Roundtable, was unsparing in his criticism of' [...]
What credentials and experience does it take to become superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol?
A screening committee has started interviewing candidates to help select a man or woman to lead the patrol's "gray shirts."
Compare the candidates by checking out each of the 26 applicants. Links to their applications [...]
Anthony Gutierrez will serve 45 days in jail and pay nearly $7,000 as his sentence for crimes he committed while serving as former Attorney General Marc Dann's right-hand man. But there is good news for Gutierrez: He no longer faces a lawsuit from his former boss.
Dann dropped [...]
Both of Ohio's U.S. senators are sticking to their anticipated positions on the Senate's $849 billion health care bill unveiled last night - Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is a yes and GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich is a no.
That means that neither is an impact vote when it [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland says it is "unseemly" that Senate Republicans don't plan to return until December after failing yesterday to reach an agreement on how to fill a $851.5 million hole in the state budget.
Strickland said yesterday, before the Senate went home, that he thinks the legislature' [...]
Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Urbana wants Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to look into allegations that the advocacy group ACORN had an at least preliminary plan to boost Democrats' political prospects in 2008 in key congressional races in Ohio.
Jordan is citing as his evidence a document' [...]
Seeking to address a looming federal employees brain drain, Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, has co-authored a bipartisan bill that would give undergraduate and graduate students tuition assistance and stipends in exchange for the students working for three to five years after graduation for a federal agency in a [...]
Republican Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio today introduced, along with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a bill allowing emergency first responders in places such as Franklin County to use federal grant money to maintain equipment, not just buy new equipment.
The Senate bill mirrors a House proposal [...]
The Ohio House passed a bill today over Republican objections to make sweeping changes to how elections are run in Ohio, including expanding the number of sites a county can offer for early-absentee voting.
House Bill 260 passed the Democrat-controlled House 52-46 with a straight party-line vote, and the [...]
Stephen D. Steinour, the chief executive officer of Huntington National Bank, joined Sen. Sherrod Brown today in Washington for a roundtable chat on ways to help small businesses obtain financing
The forum took place at the U.S. Department of the Treasury Department included members of Congress, bankers, small business owners [...]
Ohio's public pension systems appear to be making major strides in pulling out investments from companies tied to terrorist-sponsoring regimes in Iran and Sudan.
Three of the five state pension systems this morning reported that they have cut half or more of their investments in companies that do business [...]
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