State & Regional politics
Ohio lawmakers to push right-to-work legislation
Ohio could follow in the footsteps of neighboring Michigan and Indiana to enact right-to-work legislation.Republican state Reps. Ron Maag of Lebanon and Kristina Roegner of Hudson plan to introduce two bills — one for the public sector and one for the private sector — that would end mandatory membership and ...
Pension trustees pull Hawaii trip request
The subsidized Hawaii trip is off for School Employees Retirement System trustees Barbra Phillips and Catherine Moss, who bowed to lawmaker and public pressure Tuesday and rescinded their requests for travel reimbursement for a May conference in Honolulu.Phillips and Moss both sent emails to SERS executives on Tuesday morning, less ...
Repeat gun offenders could face mandatory 11-year prison term
New tough-on-crime legislation would mandate an 11-year sentence for those convicted of illegally possessing a gun, if they previously had been convicted of two or more violent felonies. The bill, which has the backing of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, will be introduced Friday by state Sen. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus. ...
Mental health renewal on fall ballot
The Mental Health and Recovery Board of Clark, Greene and Madison counties will place a 1.65-mill renewal levy on the November ballot.The 10-year levy will generate about $3.7 million annually and fund prevention and treatment services such as counseling, medication and case management for people with disabilities.The levy costs the ...
JobsOhio staff given hefty raises
In August 2010, then-candidate John Kasich announced his plan to privatize the Ohio Department of Development, calling the government agency a “black hole” that failed to even return phone calls.“The days of trying to connect with business leaders through bureaucrats are over,” Kasich said during a campaign appearance at a ...
Lawmaker may have broken ethics law
Springfield Republican Sen. Chris Widener may have violated Ohio ethics law when he personally appeared before a state board to appeal a building code ruling on a fire hall he designed as part of his private business, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Widener was in the Ohio Senate when ...
City changes code to help with loans
A change to city code will allow residents to rebuild non-conforming structures if they’re destroyed and ease the process of selling and refinancing these types of buildings.According to a section of the city’s previous non-conforming code, a structure that is non-conforming and that is destroyed by fire, act of God ...
Urbana upgrades security cameras
The city of Urbana will spend $24,000 to upgrade video cameras at its municipal building, and it could install cameras at more sites in the future.City council members cited safety and the use of security camera footage to identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects when they approved buying the digital ...
Enon fills vacant council seat
An Enon native who returned to the village was sworn in Friday morning to a council seat left vacant by the death of Lew ArnoldBrenda C. Sweet said she will focus much of her effort on public safety.Sweet, who’s also a trustee for the Enon Historical Society, was sworn in ...
Borges chosen to lead Ohio GOP
Fending off last-minute questions about unpaid taxes and an insurgent Tea Party challenger, longtime Ohio political operative Matt Borges was easily elected Friday as chair of the Ohio Republican Party. Borges received 48 votes from members of the state GOP’s central committee. Tom Zawistowski, a Tea Party activist from Portage ...
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