The House of Representatives today approved a bill to fund the hiring of 50,000 new police officers over the next five years that was introduced by New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner along with Bainbridge Township GOP Rep. Steve LaTourette. The bill - approved in a 342-78 vote - would [...]
The percentage of Americans saying the country is headed in the right direction rose to 48 percent; 44 percent say the nation is on the wrong track. Not since January 2004 has an AP survey found more "right direction" than "wrong direction" respondents.
Charlie Neibergall/Associated PressPresident Barack Obama talks to [...]Legislators who've spent years trying to strengthen domestic job protections for returning National Guardsmen and military reservists have a new weapon in their legislative arsenal: Alliance Democratic Rep. John Boccieri. Boccieri, an Air Force reserve major who has piloted C-130 transport planes in Iraq and Afghanistan, participated in a press [...]
WASHINGTON — You don't think about Ohio and Montana in the same breath. Ohio doesn't have mountains. Or grizzly bears. Or Yellowstone. Montana doesn't have people. But Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester of Montana are teaming up to raise money for their -- and others' -- [...]
Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown expects legislation that would make it easier for workers to unionize will undergo a major rewrite before the U.S. Senate considers it this year. The current draft of the Employee Free Choice Act would allow unions to be recognized if a majority of workers sign [...]
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, apparently dissatisfied with President Barack Obama's pro-trade stance and concerned about pending agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, today called for a broad review of United States trade policies and agreements. The call for a time-out followed criticism by Brown, a Democrat, of [...]
WASHINGTON — Federal environmental officials are pressing Ohio's communities to upgrade their sewer systems. Those communities in turn have to ask homeowners and businesses to pay more in fees -- dramatically more in many cases, and at a time when people can least afford it. This makes no sense, Ohio's [...]
WASHINGTON — The Defense Finance and Accounting Service will not renew Lockheed Martin's controversial contract to process pay for the nation's military retirees and will return the work to government employees in Cleveland, the agency announced Monday. The action won't result in a large gain or loss of jobs in' [...]
COLUMBUS — State Rep. Josh Mandel, an Iraq War veteran viewed as a future star in Ohio Republican circles, is drawing close to announcing officially that he will run for state treasurer in 2010. "I'm very seriously leaning toward running for state treasurer and will be making my final'" [...]
An education-reform proposal that Gov. Strickland presented in January specifically shielded Cleveland from losing aid, but it would have required a state-funded study to make sure the district spent its money wisely.
AP Photo/Kiichiro SatoGov. Ted Strickland shakes hands with Democratic speaker of the house Armond Budish as Strickland [...]WASHINGTON -- Greater Clelevand-area auto dealer Tom Ganley says he is interviewing campaign managers and getting closer to kicking off a statewide run for U.S. Senate. "We're in the final stages of interviewing a campaign manager," Ganley said in a telephone conversation this afternoon. Once that is done, possibly by [...]
Now here's something you don't see often from a politician. Sen. George Voinovich followed his decision not to seek reelection in 2010 with a flurry of check-writing to donors.
Associated PressSen. George Voinovich will not seek another term as senator.WASHINGTON — Now here's something you don't see often from a [...]
WASHINGTON -- High-speed passenger trains that traverse Ohio are still a dream, but the concept got closer to reality Thursday with a White House endorsement of rail corridors it says could transform United States travel. President Barack Obama and top transportation officials proposed routes that could run from Cleveland to [...]
The rewrite of Gov. Ted Strickland's proposed budget puts the state on track to finally have a school funding system that meets constitutional standards, Democrats said.
Assocciated Press Democrats unveiled their education budget on Thursday. Related informationThe budget watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste released it's yearly 2009 Congressional Pig Book this week, citing several Ohio projects as examples of egregious "pork-barrel" spending. The report combed through 2009 spending bills to find money for pet projects known as "earmarks" that were requested by individual members of [...]
Winston Ford, formerly general counsel for the Ohio Department of Health, will now monitor how the state manages its billions in federal stimulus dollars.
Ford began work this week as a deputy general inspector. He will oversee and monitor how state agencies distribute the funds, review contracts for projects and [...]
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COLUMBUS - Wading into a hot-button topic among Republican state lawmakers, State Auditor Mary Taylor released an analysis finding that the next state budget in 2012-13 might be as much as $8 billion in the hole.
The lone Republican holding statewide office, Taylor offered an unprecedented prediction Thursday [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After his party maligned Republicans three years ago for selling university trustee seats to generous campaign contributors, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland has also appointed some big political donors to the coveted posts.
An Associated Press analysis shows that trustees appointed by Strickland have given nearly $268,000 to [...]
WASHINGTON - Which Ohio members of Congress think they're on Easy Street and who's already nervous about 2010? Eyeballing their campaign finance reports is a good way to find out.
By Wednesday night, every Ohio incumbent in the House of Representatives had submitted their first-quarter fundraising tallies to the Federal Election [...]
COLUMBUS - House Democrats are finalizing details of a revamped school-funding plan and have delayed a press conference planned for Wednesday morning for one more day.
"We are working to ensure that the impacts of the legislative changes are accurate and that requires additional diligence in the calculation and review" [...]
Armond BudishCOLUMBUS -- House Speaker Armond Budish is floating a plan to increase a fee being charged to Ohio hospitals in the next budget with the goal of eventually guiding $200 million more in federal Medicaid dollars back in their direction.
However, Tiffany Himmelreich, spokeswoman for the Ohio [...]
House Democrats will roll out a new school-funding plan today designed to boost aid to poor schools while capping increases to all districts next year at roughly 2 percent.
Associated PressRep. Dennis KucinichWASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who likes to use the campaign sound bite "Buy American or Bye-Bye America," uses a Panamanian company for his congressional campaign Web hosting, his latest campaign finance report shows.
Kucinich says he thought when his campaign hired the company that [...]
WASHINGTON -- On April 3, car dealer Tom Ganley said he would hold a big news conference about ten days later to announce his intention to run for U.S. Senate. Today is day 11. Nothing yet.
So we went to the Federal Election Commission to check on the paperwork. It [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher confirmed today that he hired media consultant AKPD Message and Media, whose strategists ran Obama's presidential campaign.
The Plain Dealer first noted in early March that the campaign was talking to the firm.
Since Obama's victory, AKPD founder David Axelrod, formerly the Obama campaign's' [...]
COLUMBUS -- Despite lopping off more than 4,000 jobs and vowing to reel in escalating overtime pay, Gov. Ted Strickland's administration still spent more on the state payroll and nearly as much for extra pay in 2008.
The state last year spent $3.3 billion on payroll, a 2.5 percent increase [...]
Plain Dealer FileJennifer Brunner (left) and Lee Fisher (right) have been competing for donors and fundraisers since they in the seven weeks since announcing their intentions of running for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner are fighting over money. [...]
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• Northeast Ohio Congress members seek millions of dollars in earmarks
WASHINGTON -- Want to know what local projects your member of Congress wants taxpayer dollars to pay for next year? It takes patience and time, even with newly instituted congressional rules designed to shed light on [...]
WASHINGTON - The race for 2010 federal funds is on. And Northeast Ohio members of Congress are eager participants.
Over the past few days, local legislators who want federal dollars for their districts have posted their funding wish lists online to comply with new rules designed to shed light on how [...]
UPDATE: The U.S. State Department confirms that the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs is funded by the People's Republic of China. That means that the Chinese government paid for the trip by Sen. Sherrod Brown's spokeswoman, Joanna Kuebler.
Kuebler says she learned how passionate the Chinese are about building' [...]
He'll discuss Obama's support of a strong American auto industry and the President's Auto Task Force initiative to support and revitalize auto industry workers and communities, the White House said.
Al Goldis/Associated PressEd Montgomery, White House Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, answers questions at an April 1' [...]
Ohio cannot keep interest earned on unclaimed funds owed to taxpayers, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.
Will Schilling / Associated Press file (2005)Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, right, wrote the opinion ordering the state to return millions of dollars in accumulated interest to people recovering unclaimed funds. At [...]WASHINGTON — Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge returned today from a five-day Congressional Black Caucus trip to Cuba, where she smoked cigars with Cuban President Raul Castro and met with a wide variety of Cuban government officials.
"He is really a very intelligent, a very engaging, entertaining guy, actually," [...]
Courtesy Phoenix BooksThe cover of Dennis Kucinich's autobiography "The Courage to Survive."Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the publisher of his 2007 autobiography, titled "The Courage to Survive."
The lawsuit alleges that Beverly Hills-based Phoenix Books didn't release the book [...]
COLUMBUS — A lawmaker who turned to the Ohio Supreme Court Monday to try to force Gov. Ted Strickland to turn over the evidence for his school-funding plan got a response a day later.
Much of the research material underlying Strickland's plan, requested by Rep. Seth Morgan, a Dayton-area Republican,' [...]
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Tuesday said she needs more time and evidence to decide whether state Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican candidate for the secretary's post in 2010, has violated a voting rule that is governed by the office.
Brunner, a Democrat, is not seeking re-election and [...]
Columbus — Ten Northeast Ohio mayor's courts are being called out by the state's highest court for failing to register their quasi-judicial system with the state, as required by law.
They are Brooklyn, Grand River, Madison, Moreland Hills, North Randall, Orange, Peninsula, Richfield, Seven Hills and Valley View.
Three others- - Brook [...]
COLUMBUS - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday appointed Michelle D. Earley to a vacancy on the Cleveland Municipal Court.
Earley, 35, of Cleveland, is currently the grand jury supervisor for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office and previously served as an assistant prosecutor for the county prosecutor's office from 2000 [...]
Rep. Seth Morgan, a Dayton-area Republican, has turned to the Ohio Supreme Court to try to force Strickland to comply with a request for documents used in developing his new model for supporting schools.
Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer)Gov. Ted Strickland tours Louisa May Alcott Elementary School in Cleveland [...]COLUMBUS — House Republicans have filed suit against Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, saying his office has failed to comply with public records requests concerning school funding issues.
Rep. Seth Morgan, a Dayton-area Republican, is upset that Strickland has failed to respond to requests for records concerning the governor's "evidence-based school funding'" [...]
Gene Blythe/Associated PressA charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team rests on its side after plunging off a highway ramp two years ago in Georgia. Of the 36 people on board, seven were killed. Rules designed to improve motorcoach safety and avoid such deaths have stalled in Congress.
WASHINGTON [...]
WASHINGTON -- Would you buy a new car from this man? A used one?
If not, Tom Ganley hopes you will at least elect him to the U.S. Senate next year.
The ubiquitous Northeast Ohio car dealer, whose name is on showrooms selling Chevrolets, Fords, Jeeps, Hondas, BMWs and [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray on Friday approved the summary petition for a constitutional amendment that would bring four full-service casinos to Ohio, if approved by voters.
By approving the petition language, the backers of the casino plan move one step closer to being able to begin collecting [...]
Cuyahoga County Recorder Lillian J. Greene, one of only two black officials elected to a county office, says she's not heard from either group of local leaders trying to promote plans to reform county reform.
She finds it ironic since both groups claim to be reaching out [...]
Auto dealer Tom Ganley says he will hold a "king-size press conference in about 10 days" to formally announce his intentions to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. George Voinovich. Ganley has name recognition, but can he get the support of the GOP?
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J. Scott Applewhite/Associated PressRep. Dennis Kucinich said he could not support President Obama's budget.WASHINGTON — Congress last night approved the budget blueprint of President Barack Obama, with a few changes, largely along party lines. But Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich was one of 20 Democrats voting with Republicans -- not' [...] 
Marvin Fong/The Plain DealerOhio Gov. Ted Strickland toured Louisa May Alcott Elementary School in Cleveland in January.
WASHINGTON -- Blame it on confusing accounting.
Gov. Ted Strickland and his top education and budget officials gave assurances this week that no Ohio school district will be shortchanged of federal stimulus [...]
COLUMBUS - Participants in a new program offered by the state treasurer's office can earn up to 3.25 percent interest on their bank accounts if they first take part in a financial literacy course.
State Treasurer Kevin L. Boyce announced the SaveNOW program on Thursday at a National City [...]
The suburban Dayton politician and former Ohio House Speaker has been rumored for about a year to be interested in the job to become the state's top elections officer. He is the first announced Republican candidate.
Lisa DeJong/Plain DealerJon Husted COLUMBUS — State Sen. Jon Husted has finally revealed the worst-kept' [...]
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COLUMBUS — State Sen. Jon Husted says he wants the job of Ohio's top elections official so he can eliminate the need for it.
The 41-year-old Republican from the Dayton area plans to announce today that he'll run for Ohio secretary of state in' [...]
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Groups representing Ohio's bars and restaurants want to install slot machines, only this time they want them there legally and with the governor's blessing.
Carolyn Kaster/Associated PressGroups representing Ohio bars and restaurants see an opportunity for the idea to install slot machines legally in establishments.COLUMBUS -- Groups representing [...]
House Bill 114 would rename Cleveland Lakefront Park as Stephanie Tubbs Jones Cleveland Lakefront Park. And House Bill 115 would designate Tubbs Jones birth date, September 10, each year as Stephanie Tubbs Jones Day in Ohio.
Courtesy of the Tubbs Jones FamilyOhio 11th district Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones COLUMBUS — [...]
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WASHINGTON — Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur hopes to make the jump from CSPAN to the silver screen this fall in an upcoming Michael Moore documentary on the financial crisis.
Moore and a film crew visited the U.S. Capitol on Monday to interview Kaptur about the [...]
Plans to federally subsidize new car purchases by drivers who ditch their old gas-guzzlers got a jump-start this week from President Barack Obama, and lawmakers hope to move ahead soon
Chuck Crow/The Plain DealerA federal proposal would give drivers incentives to trade in their older cars to purchase a new [...]COLUMBUS -- A bipartisan deal struck on the state's $7.6 billion transportation budget hit a snag Tuesday, delaying an expected vote on the bill and leaving state lawmakers bickering over who was to blame.
The deal was sidetracked in the morning as House lawmakers prepared to vote on a report [...]
WASHINGTON -- U2 frontman Bono paid a visit to the U.S. Capitol today to promote Third World relief efforts. Here's an account of his visit to the office of House GOP Leader John Boehner, that was e-mailed to The Plain Dealer by a GOP aide who attended the meeting:
The meeting [...]
WASHINGTON -- Zack Space, the Democratic congressman from Dover, was ticketed early Saturday after being stopped for driving 65 mph in a 50 zone, at which point an officer noticed another problem: Space's driver's license had expired. This occurred near Belpre, about
100 miles southeast of Columbus, the Associated [...]
Susan Walsh/Associated PressDemocratic Rep. George Miller of California, left, and Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa announce the Employee Free Choice Act this month in Washington, touting it as a way to restore American workers' rights. Opponents say the bill would do just the opposite: trample on the rights' [...] 
PD fileRyanWASHINGTON — Add this to the latest round of Ohio political rumor-mongering: a Washington Post politics blog reports that Niles Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan "will announce that he is running for lieutenant governor later this week." It attributes the info to a pair of unnamed sources.
Named sources [...]
Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is seeking goverment paperwork on a $3.62 billion bonus package that Merrill Lynch paid its top executives in the last quarter of 2008, after the financial services firm lost more than $15 billion and was informed it would get $10 billion in federal bailout money.
Merrill [...]
After weekend meetings out of public view, state lawmakers were expected to emerge Monday afternoon having struck a bipartisan deal on the state's $ 7.6 billion transportation budget.
Plain Dealer fileThe 49-year-old Inner Belt Bridge, shown here in June 2005, carries 100,000 or so vehicles each weekday.
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Gov. Strickland is not convinced. Aside from opposing the plan because he thinks it doesn't share enough with the state, the governor has questioned whether the proposed Ohio casinos can produce the promised $1.8 billion in annual revenue when the betting industry is lagging because of the country's poor economy.
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Rule change could save seniors hundreds of dollars on prescriptionsWashington — Sen. Sherrod Brown joined a bipartisan crowd of U.S. senators today to announce a legislative compromise that would pave the way for the Food and Drug Administration to allow generic versions of biologic drugs [...]
Franklin County Commissioner Marilyn Brown said she would seek the Democratic nomination to run for secretary of state in 2010.
Current Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has announced she will not seek re-election. Brunner plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican George Voinovich.
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Steve LaTourette blames D.C. sucking sound on politicians' sphinctersThe House Committee on Financial Services this morning unanimously approved a measure authored by Bainbridge Township GOP Rep. Steve LaTourette that would compel the Treasury Department to give the House of Representatives all information it has on' [...]
Armond BudishCOLUMBUS -- It comes around every two years, like the Olympic Games or a really good scary movie. State lawmakers are again pondering the wisdom of allowing drilling for oil and gas on state park land.
Republicans batted it around the last two budget cycles, and now Democratic [...]
Doral Chenoweth III/Associated PressChildren in this April 9, 2008, photo play in their back yard near the coal-fired American Electric Power plant in Cheshire, Ohio. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown wants to provide incentives for manufacturers to adopt green technologies, but still opposes caps on carbon dioxide emissions, saying they [...] 
Photo courtesy of American Electric Power American Electric Power's coal-fired Muskingum River plant is located near Beverly, Ohio. Coal-fired plants account for 68 percent of AEP's generating capacity.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has introduced a bill to provide grants and loans to manufacturers so they can adopt energy-efficient [...] COLUMBUS -- About 45 teenagers from Northeast Ohio descended on the Statehouse Tuesday to ask lawmakers to set aside $20 million in the state budget for after-school programs.
One of the teens talking to lawmakers was Randy Olsen, a Brecksville 17-year-old, who made his case that the programs were needed [...]
Jack Plunkett/Associated PressU.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and musician WIllie Nelson -- shown above at a 2004 Kucinich fundraiser -- lost their challenge to a Texas loyalty oath requirement.Austin, Texas — A federal appeals court ruled today that the Texas Democratic Party has the right to impose a loyalty oath [...] 
Joshua Gunter/The Plain DealerVisitors to last year's Cleveland National Air Show participate in the Virtual Army Experience, a game that simulates a battle scene. The exhibit will not be at the air show this year.
WASHINGTON — A giant traveling video game exhibit that serves as an Army recruiting' [...]
Richard Cordray said the summary of the plan that the Ohio Jobs and Growth Committee would circulate to gather signatures to qualify for the ballot did not closely enough match the language of the constitutional amendment proposed.
San Francisco ChronicleThe casino proposal suffered a setback today when its ballot language [...]
PD fileCoughlin Politicians with an eye on higher office are energizing the debate over how the state draws legislative boundaries, long manipulated by the party that controls Columbus.
Two proposals by Republicans emerged last week, adding to a ongoing push for change from Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. [...]
Cleveland City Council has announced its plan to redraw political boundaries. It's a pretty good plan,says Mark Naymik, but council is tone deaf in its decision to limit public input.
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For political junkies: Naymik offers this tidbit on two Ohioans with newly [...]
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"Ross Perot, when he ran for president in 1992, talked about the giant sucking sound," Bainbridge Township GOP Rep. Steve LaTourette said today in an impassioned speech on the House of Representatives floor that attacked the use of taxpayer funds for bonuses paid to AIG executives.
"Well, today there's another" [...]
WASHINGTON — Companies that unwittingly bought and distributed salmonella-laced peanut products from Peanut Corp. of America, including Solon's King Nut Co., were chastized at a congressional hearing today for not independently inspecting the filthy factories where the products were made.
Members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight' [...]
The commission decision was based on findings by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, who referred Dann to the commission, concluding he improperly spent $40,610 in campaign money on home security upgrades and $4,369 on cell-phone bills for his family.
Plain Dealer file Former Ohio attorney general Marc Dann was [...]
Shari Lewis/Columbus DispatchGov. Ted Strickland opposes the new casino proposal: "I really don't envision anything that is likely to change my mind."Columbus — Gov. Ted Strickland on Wednesday slammed the latest plan to bring full-scale casinos to Ohio, saying gambling supporters need to stop selling their proposal as' [...] WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military will end a controversial practice in which soldiers are kept on duty after their enlistment ends and will pay soldiers who were previously retained under the "stop loss" program an extra $500 per month starting this month, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today.
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• Speed camera, seat-belt rules dropped from billCleveland's Inner Belt Bridge could be on fast track for stimulus money
COLUMBUS -- Truckers may be able to put a little more pedal to the metal as Senate Republicans inserted language into the state transportation budget allowing vehicles and noncommercial [...]
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"The bridge is a key project for Northeast Ohio, and I think there are serious concerns right now about safety," says Beachwood Democrat Armond Budish.
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COLUMBUS — House Speaker Armond Budish is so worried about [...]
Plain Dealer fileOhio Senate Republicans slowed down Gov. Strickland's plan for a passenger rail line connecting Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Columbus — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked plans to allow speed cameras in construction zones and to give police the power to stop motorists for not buckling [...]
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Freshman Democratic congressman John Boccieri of Alliance is introducing his first bill in the U.S. House of Representatives along with freshman New York Republican congressman Chris Lee.
Their proposal would make permanent a federal research and development tax credit that's set to expire at' [...]
PD fileJosh MandelThe cost of a cup of coffee is on the rise and the increase has nothing to do with Starbucks.
The Cuyahoga County Republican Party is charging $150 for the beverage -- and the chance to meet Republican State. Rep. Josh Mandel of Lyndhurst at [...] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's campaign organization, integrated into the Democratic National Committee under the name Organizing for America (but using the website MyBarackObama, will hit the streets with volunteers this weekend. With Obama in the White House, the goal is to build popular support for the president's budget [...]
Although still strong, Strickland's approval rating dropped to 56 percent, down seven percentage points from last month, according to results released this morning from a Quinnipiac University poll.
Associated PressGov. Ted Strickland's approval rating has dropped from 63 percent in February to 56 percent, according to a poll released [...]
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State Rep. William Batchelder of Medina wrote to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, calling Sabety's work insufficient in a "number" [...]
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Sabety's performance has been "insufficient" in a "number of significant" cases, Republicans said in a letter delivered Sunday to Gov. Ted Strickland.
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WASHINGTON — If you want to meet with the president or invite him to stop by when he's in Ohio, you will have to go through a little-known office in the White House's West Wing.
For five recent years, Medina native Melissa Bennett directed that office, part of [...]
Plain Dealer File Gov. Ted Strickland wants to take a portion of the money Cleveland schools would receive from the economic stimulus plan and spread it statewide.
COLUMBUS --Cleveland's public schools may not get the windfall they expected under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
Instead, Gov. Ted Strickland's' [...]
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt had grim numbers to match the grim look on her face Thursday in the Statehouse hallway.
The lobbyist for the state's emergency food bank network, Hamler-Fugitt is working both sides of the aisle trying to get more money included in the state budget for Ohio's desperately [...]
The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party is expecting a full house during its annual fund-raiser March 29 at Executive Catering at Landerhaven.
Some local Democrats worried that the county corruption scandal and the recent Ohio Democratic Party dinner in Cleveland would cut into ticket sales.
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The House also announced it would delay final action on the budget until [...]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich wants to kill federal funding for an immense traveling video game exhibit that acts as an Army recruiting tool by letting kids as young as 13 play soldier in modified Humvees armed with realistic weapons
Joshua Gunter/The Plain DealerVisitors participate in the Virtual Army Experience (VAE) which [...]
Elizabeth Flores/The Star TribuneAL Franken speaks tat a rally on March 4.ST. PAUL, Minn. — Testimony in the long-running Minnesota Senate trial headed for completion today, meaning the case should be in the judges' hands early next week.
Republican Norm Coleman started his rebuttal case even before Democrat Al' [...]
