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 [...]
His sentence may be relatively mild, but Anthony Gutierrez will spend Christmas and New Year's away from his family.
Gutierrez, a former lieutenant to then-Attorney General Marc Dann, inked a plea agreement with Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien in which Gutierrez agreed to spend 45 days in jail' [...]
Senate Republicans are going home until December without fixing the $851 million state budget shortfall.
With only five or six Republicans willing to support it, a GOP-crafted plan to fill the budget hole through a partial income tax cut delay, casino licensing fees and raiding money designed to help [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich is using the fact that the national debt now stands at $12 trillion to again call for legislation establishing a base-closing-like commission to cut federal entitlement spending and revamp the tax code.
Voinovich's proposal would establish a bipartisan commission whose recommendations for cutting spending, [...]
The bell tolled at 6 p.m. and Senate Republicans emerged from their long, closed-door caucus meeting. But according to some, a budget deal was still nowhere in sight.
Republicans plan to continue meeting into the night to try to hammer out an agreement amongst themselves over how to fill [...]
A member of Gov. Ted Strickland's cabinet was chosen today as a regional Health and Human Services director for President Obama.
Cristal A. Thomas, executive director of OhioÂ’s Executive Medicaid Management Administration, will head the region that includes Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“Cristal Thomas brings [...]
While Senate Republicans continue looking for alternatives, yet another business group has joined the chorus calling for them to pass Gov. Ted StricklandÂ’s income tax plan.
Shortly after Ohio Republicans canceled a scheduled Senate Finance Committee meeting, ending any public discussion of filling the budget shortfall for today, the [...]
The House Homeland Security Committee today approved a bill co-sponsored by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy that would allow state and local governments to use federal homeland security grants to maintain first respondersÂ’ emergency equipment instead of just buying new equipment.
The Columbus Democrat co-authored the bill with Rep. [...]
The divided Senate Republican caucus wonÂ’t be rolling out its plan to fill the budget shortfall today.
The 21 Republican members are meeting right now behind closed doors trying to figure out which plan will generate enough votes, and enough money, to fill the $851 million budget hole. The [...]
Anthony Gutierrez, the former state administrator whose misbehavior led to the undoing of his boss, former Attorney General Marc Dann, is appealing a decision by a Bureau of Workers' Compensation panel that he cheated the workers' compensation fund.
Gutierrez contends that the three-person adjudicatory panel incorrectly concluded that [...]
He lost by 20 points to Rep. Zack Space in 2008 and now faces a potentially crowded GOP primary field for 2010 that includes a sitting state senator apparently preferred by many in his party for the general election - but Fred Dailey is making it clear he intends [...]
The federal stimulus package so far has given Ohio State University's research work an $82.5 million boost, says Caroline Whitacre, OSU's vice president for research, who will talk about that today at an event in Washington with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Whitacre and other members of the Association of [...]
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray should withdraw from representing three ex-state bureaucrats who got into trouble for improperly accessing information on a figure from the 2008 presidential campaign, Cordray rival Dave Yost said today.
Yost, the Delaware County prosecutor and one of two Republicans seeking to take on Cordray, [...]
State officials today supplied information identifying the remaining six applicants for superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The Daily Briefing published a list of 24 applicants on Friday, but was unable to verify the backgrounds of six candidates until today.
The six candidates are:
-- Lavell Craven, a police [...]
Two Republicans are getting into what could be one of the most competitive Ohio House races in the state in November 2010.
Bill Todd, who made an unsuccessful run for Columbus mayor and fought against a Columbus income tax hike that voters approved in August is eyeing the 20th [...]
Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer has been elected to the Ohio Supreme Court four times. That's at least two times too many, he figures.
Moyer, who now is closing out his final term, is leading a quest to de-politicize the state's highest court by replacing competitive elections [...]
It was a party-building Monday out of state for Gov. Ted Strickland.
The governor flew to New York City yesterday afternoon and plans to return to the state tonight, according to the Ohio Democratic Party, speaking for Strickland.
The governor has taken numerous trips out of state this year so [...]
Democratic National Committee has launched radio commercials against Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township and 31 other House Republicans for voting against a House bill earlier this month aimed at overhauling the nationÂ’s health care system.
"Congressman Tiberi joined Republicans in Washington and voted against real reform,'' the" [...]
Senate Republicans still donÂ’t know how theyÂ’re going to fix the $851 million budget shortfall, but they do know the pay cut portion of the bill will be jettisoned into separate legislation.
Sen. John A. Carey Jr., R-Wellston, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the 5-percent pay cut [...]
An underdog for the Republican nomination in a central Ohio congressional district says someone is trying to sabotage him by sending counterfeit checks drawn on his campaign account.
John Adams, an Upper Arlington conservative challenging former state Sen. Steve Stivers for the GOP slot to run against [...]
When Ohioans approved four casinos in the Nov. 3 election, they just may have given the push that Kentucky needed to get into the gambling game.
Kentucky is the only Ohio neighbor without Las Vegas-style gambling. Like Ohio, Kentucky has wrestled over the years with proposals to put slot [...]
Proposed new standards for social studies and science are now available for public review and comment.
As required under state law, the Ohio Board of Education by June must update the grade-by-grade curriculum guidelines for social studies, science, math and English/language arts.
The Department of Education today posted http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?Page=3&TopicRelationID=1696&Content=76764drafts of [...]
A Franklin County judge this afternoon temporarily blocked releasing to the Ohio Republican Party the names, addresses, phone numbers and other information about Ohio teachers, administrators and staff.
Common Pleas Judge Laurel Beatty granted the temporary restraining order at the request of the Ohio Education Association, the stateÂ’s [...]
Westerville Mayor Anne Gonzales has jumped into the 19th Ohio House District race, one of the primary targets for House Republicans in 2010.
Gonzales, a Republican, wants to challenge incumbent Rep. Marian Harris, D-Columbus, who won a narrow victory in the GOP-leaning district in 2008. Her win and others [...]
Traci Saliba, the chief deputy clerk for Delaware Municipal Court, says she is running for the 2nd Ohio House District.
The 46-year-old Powell resident looks to replace Rep. Kris Jordan, who is running for the Senate. The district, which covers all of Delaware County, is solidly Republican, and Saliba [...]
Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks has hired Patrick Brown to manager her 2010 campaign for the 12th Congressional District against incumbent Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township.
Brown, 26, grew up in northeastern Massachusetts and most recently was campaign director for the Democratic caucus of the Michigan Senate. [...]
There is no shortage of applicants who want to wear the colonelÂ’s eagle insignia as the new superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Twenty-four people had thrown their names in the hat as interviews were scheduled to begin today with a screening committee appointed by Public Safety Director Cathy [...]
Perhaps this was inevitable: Politics will play a role in deciding which states get federal stimulus money to build high-speed railroads.
So says the editor of Railway Age, who notes that the Federal Railroad Administration's ostensibly "merit-based" selection process will inevitably include political considerations.
States have submitted $100 billion [...]
Dave Yost is claiming another victory in his insurgent campaign to become the Republican candidate for attorney general next year.
Yost, the Delaware County prosecutor, said this morning that he has secured endorsements from the Butler County Republican Central and Executive Committee.
He faces the better-known Mike DeWine, a former [...]
Lawmakers who voted against the House health care bill have received more campaign cash over the years from health insurance companies' political action committees and other industry sources than supporters of the legislation, which narrowly passed 220-215, a study finds.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance' [...]
An insurance brokerage will pay Ohio pension funds and the Bureau of Workers Compensation $400 million for an alleged price-fixing scheme, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced today.
Cordray said he and his counterpart in New Jersey negotiated a settlement with Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., which was [...]
One veteran lawmaker says he worries that if new lawmakers get used to the current pace of legislating, the Ohio General Assembly is on its way to becoming a part-time body.
The 128th General Assembly has passed far fewer bills through this point of the year than any other [...]
Senate Republicans hope to pass the budget fix next week - but senators aren't saying what the fix will look like.
Sen. John A. Carey Jr., a Wellston Republican and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he hopes to accept a substitute bill on Tuesday with a' [...]
MoveOn.org, the progressive organization that champions health care reform, is sending out a plea for $150,000 to help re-elect Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus.
Kilroy was among 220 House members last Saturday to vote for a bill that would extend health insurance to about 36 million people while raising [...]
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray was in Washington today to attend a workshop on energy and competition in the marketplace, an event organized by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Association of Attorneys General.
Cordray was in Washington for just the day. [...]
Like all but one House Republican, Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township voted against the Democrat-authored health care bill approved 220-215. But now Tiberi is being targeted, by the group Organizing for America, as one of 32 House GOP members whose districts were won last year by Barack Obama.
[...]State Rep. Jennifer Garrison is calling for new legislation that would crack down on fraud in the process of circulating petitions to place issues on Ohio's statewide ballot.
Garrison, D-Marietta and a candidate for secretary of state next year, unveiled the "Ballot Integrity Act" at a Statehouse press conference [...]
Dispatch political reporters Alan Johnson, Jim Siegel and Catherine Candisky discuss the options legislators are looking into to balance the state budget.
[...]Ohio's state budget may look like a slow-motion disaster to some, but it could be worse.
The state ranks somewhere in the middle of the 50 when it comes to the severity of its fiscal crisis, according to a new study out today.
The Pew Center on [...]
Could Ohio be experiencing a gambling boom three years before its casinos are scheduled to open?
The state appears poised for a flood of Sweepstakes machines that are a hybrid between slot machines and Internet computers. The Beulah Park racetrack has 30 of them, and the Spinners [...]
Republican Senate candidate Tom Ganley, the car dealer from Cleveland who has said he will put up millions of dollars in his own money on the race, is on the air statewide with an ad that aims to highlight his ability to create jobs, according to his campaign.
Ganley [...]
House Republicans got a hearing yesterday on a government consolidation bill that they were once touting as a fix to the budget shortfall. It may be the last.
“I am hopeful that today marks the beginning to many more discussions on this proposal, and I regret that we did [...]
Now that full-scale casinos are on their way to Ohio after the passage of Issue 3 last week, Gov. Ted Strickland is pledging not to take campaign contributions from casino owners, but his Republican opponent next year is not.
The governor also is maintaining his previous promise not [...]
Callers are posing as representatives of Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's office and demanding personal information, Cordray's office said today.
Cordray's office said the calls aren't legitimate and people should not disclose information such as their Social Security numbers to unknown callers.
"We know that these scam artists are" [...]
Five years after Ohioans voted to place a gay marriage ban in the Ohio Constitution, a House Democrat is proposing a new vote to take it out.
Rep. Tyrone K. Yates, D-Cincinnati, introduced a resolution today that would eliminate Section 11, Article 15 of the Constitution, an amendment [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will sign copies of her new book, "Going Rogue," in Columbus on Nov. 20.
A spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers said Palin will appear at the Borders bookstore on Sawmill Rd. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to sign her book.
Returning to Ohio will be [...]
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