State & Regional Govt & Politics
Ohio lawmakers debating funding cut for Planned Parenthood
For the third time in a year, Ohio lawmakers are debating legislation to decrease federal funding to Planned Parenthood in Ohio and centers that perform or counsel about abortive services. House Republicans revived the push this week in revisions to Gov. John Kasich’s state budget bill. The provisions added to ...
Fallout continues over Hawaii trip for school retirement board trustees
There is mounting concern that some trustees of the School Employees Retirement System are preparing to remove SERS Executive Director Lisa Morris, who publicly advised them not to attend a pension conference in Hawaii next month. SERS is expected to foot the bill for the trip. Our Columbus bureau first ...
Ohio House set to strip Medicaid expansion from Kasich budget
By Ann Sanner and Julie Carr Smyth Associated Press COLUMBUS - A state house committee will unveil its version of the Ohio two-year budget on Tuesday, and Gov. John Kasich’s plans to expand Medicaid under the federal health law won’t be included, The Associated Press has learned. A person with ...
State leaders look to reform foster care system
Sen. Peggy Lehner is sponsoring legislation to improve Ohio’s foster care system, based on recommendations released Monday from the state attorney general’s office. The Kettering Republican said she’s heard from several foster parents who thought a child was returned prematurely to the birth parents and the changes she’s proposing are ...
Former Ohio mayor convicted of rape, other charges
A Morgan County Common Pleas jury has convicted former Stockport Mayor Michael Shane Shuster on 21 felony counts including eight counts of gross sexual imposition, seven counts of sexual battery and six counts of rape. A special prosecutor from the Ohio Attorney General’s Crimes Against Children Unit was assigned to ...
Bipartisan support growing for Brown plan to breakup large banks
During the final days of intense debate in 2010 over a bill aimed at preventing another financial meltdown such as the one in 2008, Sen. Sherrod Brown pressed for an amendment that would break up the biggest banks in country. Brown won the backing of 32 other senators for the ...
State withholds records detailing what Leftwich did for $114K job
The state Development Services Agency refuses to disclose what Jim Leftwich did as an intermittent state employee, saying the entire balance of his work is a “trade secret” that can be legally withheld from public disclosure. Leftwich, the former director of the Dayton Development Coalition, was paid $114,850 over 13 ...
Ohio Lt. Gov criticizes feds over decision on high-risk health insurance
Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor last week blamed “poor management and oversight” by federal officials for the federal government’s decision last month to stop enrolling people in its temporary high-risk insurance pool for people with pre-existing health conditions such as cancer.Testifying before a House subcommittee, Taylor added in her written ...
Ohioan part of team gearing up for Hillary Clinton run in 2016
In yet another sign that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is a likely 2016 presidential contender, an organization urging her to run officially launched operations.Called “Readyforhillary.com,’’ the organization plans to raise money and help create a field organization should Clinton choose to run. The organizers insist they are ...
Ohio Sen. Brown to co-chair Air Force Caucus
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has been appointed co-chairman of the Senate Air Force Caucus, a group of bipartisan lawmakers from across the nation who represent the interests of Air Force bases in their states. Brown, D-Ohio, will join Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, in the top leadership spot of a caucus ...
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