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Laura A. Bischoff

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Laura Bischoff works in our Columbus bureau, covering state government and politics. Previously, she lived in Dayton's St. Anne's Hill neighborhood and covered Dayton city government and information technology businesses.

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Settlement bucks will help fund demolition

11:25 PM Thursday, February 9, 2012

COLUMBUS — Ohio cities and non-profits will soon have a $75 million pot of money to knock down blighted and abandoned properties that often drag down housing values and become neighborhood nuisances.

Kasich: Education will lead to new jobs

11:16 PM Tuesday, February 7, 2012

STEUBENVILLE — Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday said that jobs in manufacturing, logistics and other industries are moving back, but the state needs to revamp public education and align work force training to match job openings.

Bills aimed at shrinking government stirring controversy

10:03 PM Monday, February 6, 2012

Making government more efficient and cost-effective is the idea behind a new effort to change how county governments could operate in Ohio.

Ohio workers to share in AIG’s $725M settlement

12:28 AM Saturday, February 4, 2012

COLUMBUS — Insurance giant American International Group Inc. must pay $725 million to settle a securities class action lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension systems.

Donations helping DeWine pay down campaign loan

10:44 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2012

COLUMBUS — Republican Mike DeWine raked in $1.7 million from a list of contributors that includes lawyers, lobbyists and Republican Party faithful during his first year as attorney general — money that is helping DeWine repay the $2 million loan he made to his campaign committee in the closing weeks of his 2010 race to unseat Democrat Richard Cordray.

Captured leopard dies after accident at zoo

10:25 PM Monday, January 30, 2012

A male spotted leopard from the Thompson farm in Zanesville was euthanized Sunday after breaking his neck at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, where it was being held.

Fired prison guard's speech rights debated

10:23 PM Friday, January 27, 2012

COLUMBUS — The firing of a Lebanon Correctional Institution prison guard who once was commended for saving the life of a suicidal inmate has ignited debate over free speech in the workplace and whether it extends to threatening comments on an employee’s Facebook page.

Smokers not eligible for jobs in some Ohio casinos

10:42 PM Wednesday, January 25, 2012

COLUMBUS — Job seekers who smoke, chew tobacco or even use nicotine patches won’t be considered for the 3,200 casino jobs in Toledo and Columbus when Penn National starts filling positions later this year.

Inmates spent $38M on essentials, junk food

10:24 PM Sunday, January 22, 2012

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 50,000 inmates bought $38 million worth of candy, salty snacks, instant soup, beverages and other items from prison commissaries last year, with the profits being pumped back into amenities such as televisions for common areas, recreation equipment, books and other items.

OSU president makes verbal slip-up during speech

10:57 PM Wednesday, January 11, 2012

COLUMBUS — At a speech before 300 people on Wednesday, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee made a quip that plays on the ethnic stereotype that Polish people are incompetent.