State & Regional Govt & Politics
Proposed ban on Internet cafes moves forward
Hundreds of Internet sweepstakes cafes across Ohio would be closed under a bill moving through the state Senate and lawmakers are being asked to return all campaign donations from the industry.Senate President Keith Faber told reporters Wednesday that senators will fast-track House Bill 7, which would effectively ban the estimated ...
Beer brewers upset with Ohio lawmakers
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, says it was blindsided by Ohio lawmakers who approved an amendment “in the space of four hours” that will prohibit breweries from buying wholesale distributorships in the future. The beer giant is now publicly pleading with legislative leaders to reverse course or even take ...
Race to lead state GOP getting bumpy
The front-runner to be the next leader of the Ohio Republican Party is facing an eleventh-hour call from within his own party to step aside. In a Monday letter to state GOP central committee members, Ashtabula County Republican Party Chair Charlie Frye asked Matt Borges to withdraw his candidacy. Frye ...
Man hired after allegedly misspending public funds
A Centerville man who resigned from Clinton County Children Services after paying back $713 for trips he was reimbursed for but never took is now working next door in Highland County. This is another example uncovered by the Dayton Daily News of public employees being permitted to pay back misspent ...
GOP keeps Medicaid expansion alive
By breathing new life into the issue of Medicaid expansion, Ohio House Republicans last week kept alive a debate that has split the GOP over whether to sign onto a federal promise for billions in new health care dollars. In a budget amendment passed unanimously Thursday, Ohio House members took ...
State representative says he’ll take on Portman in 2016 over gun vote
and Joe HallettThe Columbus DispatchWASHINGTON - Sen. Rob Portman’s vote opposing a bipartisan amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases drew him his first opponent for 2016 – a state senator who said Portman’s vote reflected a lack of “courage.”State Rep. Bob Hagan, a Youngstown Democrat and 26-year member ...
Ohio school retirement board votes to take controversial Hawaii trip
Despite outrage from lawmakers and retirees, Ohio’s School Employees Retirement System board refused to cancel plans to send two trustees to a five-day conference in Hawaii next month and declined to adopt the same travel limits followed by the state’s four other public pension systems.The nine-member SERS board spent Thursday ...
Supreme Court wants tougher penalty for lawmaker convicted of DUI
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a proposed public reprimand for former a former southwest Ohio legislator, saying a harsher penalty should be considered.The Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court recommended that former State Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, R-Cincinnati, be publicly reprimanded, rather than have his law license suspended, ...
Kasich maintains support in new poll
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is maintaining his new-found popularity with Ohio voters, according to a new poll. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found that 52 percent of voters approve of the job Kasich is doing as Ohio’s governor, and gave him a comfortable advantage against either of his two ...
Ohio school pension board member collects OT for time missed at work
School Employees Retirement System trustee Barbra Phillips earns overtime pay for field trips and sports team travel as a school bus driver even when she is out of town on pension board business, public records obtained by our Columbus bureau show. Ashland City Schools allows Phillips to sign up for ...
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