The Humane Society of the United States is conceding defeat on State Issue 2, but the organization's president says he'll be back to fight another battle in Ohio.
Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society, said in an interview that he knew the Issue 2 battle' [...]
The first vote totals coming out statewide show State Issue 2, the proposal to create a livestock-care standards board, passing by a comfortable margin.
About 69 percent of the initial vote total coming into the Ohio Secretary of State's office tonight favored the proposal to create a powerful board to [...]
All Ohio polls closed on time at 7:30 p.m. tonight, despite an apparent shortage of ballots in Summit County, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office said.
Brunner's office said starting at about 5 p.m., a request came from the Summit County Board of Elections to photocopy dwindling ballot [...]
The typical Election-Day glitches have surfaced at some polling locations today, including a precinct in Logan County where voters weren't getting the second page of their optical-scan ballots, but the problems are being corrected and no widespread concerns are being reported as of 4 p.m., the secretary of state's [...]
It isn't likely to end the war of words between Democrats and Republicans over health care reform, but House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republicans have come up with a blog that allows various GOP lawmakers to interpret provisions of the Democrats' health care bill.
House Republicans say [...]
It certainly is no secret now who the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is assuming will be his party's nominee for the 2010 Senate race in Ohio.
In an interview on MSNBC, Sen. Robert Mendendez, D-N.J., who chairs the campaign committee that oversees Senate campaigns for his [...]
Ohio is getting nearly $30.5 million in federal stimulus money to improve energy efficiency in the industrial sector, officials announced today.
The Ohio awards include $30 million to construct a power-generation plant at the Middletown works of AK Steel to capture and process blast-furnace gas as a way [...]
The Ohio Senate should stop dawdling and either pass a House-approved bill to balance the state budget by delaying an income-tax cut or propose a viable alternative, Gov. Ted Strickland said today.
"Time is of the essence; there should not be delay," Strickland told reporters today after an unrelated [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland joined Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel at his weekly press conference today to promote a project to distribute child identification kits to Ohio kindergartners and first graders.
A $250,000 grant from Walmart will provide the FBI-approved DNA-fingerprint kits to more than 270,000 kids in their [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland said he's hoping that voters will defeat Issue 3 on today's statewide ballot to allow casino gambling in Ohio but that he hasn't yet made plans for what to do if it passes or fails.
There already have been suggestions that if the issue passes,' [...]
Election officials reported that polls in central Ohio opened smoothly today with only the usual glitches -- and lots of hand sanitizers in some cases.
Responding to concerns about the H1N1 flu circulating, some counties are taking precautions to help prevent the spread of any germs among voters and [...]
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