Amid requests for corruption investigations and allegations of Republican fraud, Ohio Democrats decided to cave to the GOP earlier than expected in a vote Wednesday night, accepting a heavily Republican congressional reapportionment map, in part to avoid an expensive two-date primary in March. The second primary would have cost taxpayers More…
When Justice Paul Pfeifer undertook a crusade to restore the death penalty in Ohio in the early 1980s, he was a state senator. Now a state Supreme Court justice, Pfeifer wants to see it done away with altogether. More …
In a speech delivered Monday at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Gov. John Kasich More… reaffirmed his disdain for the press. “You should know, I don’t read newspapers in the state of Ohio,” he said. “Very rarely do I read a newspaper.”
The fight over re-mapping Ohio’s congressional districts has become a savage partisan battleground in Columbus, and could even result in a referendum that would have federal courts drawing the lines for lawmakers unable to compromise. More…
Opponents of Ohio’s so-called “voter suppression bill” have been given 10 additional days to collect 10,000 valid signatures to place the bill, House Bill 194 More…, before voters on the 2012 ballot.
After spending at least a month “right in the corner of (Wis.) Gov. Scott Walker 100 percent,” Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain told Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel today that Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 More…, a wide-ranging anti-collective-bargaining bill that was trounced at the polls on Tuesday, may have been an overreach.
After the rejection of Ohio’s union-busting law, Senate Bill 5 More…, on Tuesday, Democrats and media alike are crowing the results as good news for 2012, while Republicans have wasted no time rolling out their next attack on unions in the state.
According to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, Ohio’s decision to overturn its contentious anti-collective-bargaining law will have little effect on its credit rating.
The law, known as Senate Bill 5 More…, would have stripped public-employee unions’ ability to negotiate, giving the ultimate decision-making power to state and local employers, ostensibly
After voters felled More… Ohio Governor John Kasich’s signature anti-collective-bargaining law yesterday, he responded with an assurance that the state wasn’t going to pony up any new cash to help struggling cities.
Ohio voters dealt a withering blow to Governor John Kasich as 82 of 88 counties voted to repeal his signature legislation, an anti-collective-bargaining bill, through a citizens’ veto last night. More…
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The beautiful weather in Ohio Tuesday may seal the fate of Senate Bill 5 More…, the state’s new anti-collective-bargaining law that was placed on the ballot via the state referendum Issue 2. Poll workers in Central Ohio are reporting much higher turnout than is usual
Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner stopped short of criticizing her replacement, but made it clear they disagreed on the importance of absentee ballot application mailings. More…
A new poll (PDF) by Public Policy Polling shows voter opinion of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law Senate Bill 5 More… remains extremely unfavorable. According to the poll, voters are ready to nix State Issue 2, the veto referendum on the law that goes before voters on Nov. 8, 59 percent to 36
A key provision of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law, Senate Bill 5, is that public employers have the right to make More… (PDF) “any and all reasonable rules and regulations.” But what is reasonable to an employer may not be reasonable to a firefighter, as public-employee unions have argued in their fight
When Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted decided not to allow county boards of elections to mail out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms, he overturned a five-year-old policy that helped encourage over 1.1 million residents in the state to vote early. Last year More…, absentee voting was responsible for nearly
Conservative commentator and strategist Grover Norquist has weighed in on Ohio’s ballot initiative to repeal the controversial Senate Bill 5, the anti-collective-bargaining law opponents say distracts from the real causes More… of the state’s budget woes.
