Ohio lawmakers begin work on the next two-year budget cycle, Gov. Mike DeWine has thrown them the $1 billion Investing in Ohio Initiative. The idea is that at a time when frozen state spending and other factors have meant some savings, and there is a temporary increase in the availability of ...
How political districts for state and federal offices get drawn this year will be different from how it was done 10 years ago, and 10 years before that. Gerrymandering — the to-the-victor-go-the-spoils approach previously employed — has been ditched, mostly, for a new plan designed to make ...
The feud between state lawmakers and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has got to stop somewhere. We suggest it stop with hammering out a budget agreement and an understanding how to help small businesses recover from the pandemic. The first year of the pandemic was hit hard —hard hit indeed by angry ...
We are glad to see Gov. Mike DeWine’s decision to relax the Ohio COVID-19 curfew by one hour, but we’ll be even more pleased when it goes away completely. That’s because the curfew has produced little to no measurable results in combating the spread of COVID-19. DeWine first announced ...
As Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman approaches the end of his second six-year term, “partisan gridlock” has triggered his decision not to seek re-election next year. The decision is a blow to Republicans hoping to regain the Senate in two years, after it flipped this year to a 50-50 tie, ...
With February comes Black History Month. Its celebration of our nation’s Blacks became a national observance in 1976 under President Gerald Ford. As always, the month calls to mind great community leaders, from the civil rights movement, from academia, from city leadership, law enforcement ...
Right now is a great time to be a scam artist. Tax season is always fertile for the unscrupulous. Plus, there have been reports of con jobs emerging surrounding COVID vaccinations. Then there are the run-of-the-mill general scams that occur any time of the year. It is terrible when anybody ...
As the number of applications for unemployment assistance exploded all over the country, so did the opportunities for fraud — theft of taxpayer dollars. Officials in most states have been working hard against it, but the onslaught is overwhelming. Ohio Job and Family Services Director Kim ...
Most Ohioans have felt the financial strain as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on our nation. Despite a couple of federal stimulus efforts, the struggle grinds on. State government has been affected to, and Gov. Mike DeWine responded properly last week when he ordered $390 million in ...
Why is it that the delays and struggles in Ohio’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines — and in many other parts of the country — are not being experienced in neighboring West Virginia? As demand for the COVID-19 vaccination exceeds supply, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine last week announced plans to ...