Politics
Senate Kills ‘Right to Work’ Plan for Ohio
Just hours after a three-part strategy was unveiled to make Ohio a “right-to-work” state, GOP leadership in the Senate killed the idea. Senate President Keith Faber said in a statement Wednesday evening that the Senate’s “ambitious” agenda is focused on jobs and economy, but not right-to-work legislation. Faber continued his statement by declaring that there […]
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- Tags: GOP, Keith Faber, Kristen Roegner, Ron Maag, U.S. Senate
Ohio, Along with 12 Other States, Call for Contraceptive Exemption to Obamacare
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, along with 12 other state attorneys general, have urged the government to widen the spectrum of religious exemptions under Obamacare, claiming the policy violates religious freedoms. Basically, under this request, any employer who says he or she objects to contraception should not have to provide insurance coverage of it to […]
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- Tags: Alabama, Colorado, Department of Health and Human Services, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Mike DeWine, Montana, Nebraska, Obamacare, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia
Ohio Attorney General Points to ‘Systematic Failure’ in Fatal Police Shooting, City Officials Say He’s Wrong
The November police chase that ended with the fatal shooting of two suspects revealed a “systematic failure” in the Cleveland police department, Attorney General Mike DeWine stated last week. According to DeWine, “command failed, communications failed, and the system failed,” in a news conference that revealed state investigation results of the police chase and shooting. […]
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- Tags: Cleveland Police Department, Mike DeWine
Jon Husted Bashed by Federal Judge for Unconstitutional Change to Ohio Election Rules
Ohio’s elections chief, Jon Husted, has been blasted by a federal judge questioning his motives on creating new vote-counting rules that would violate Ohio state law just days before the Presidential election on November 6. District Judge Algenon Marbley stated through his 17-page ruling that a directive on counting the provisional ballots that Jon Husted […]
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- Tags: John Husted, Judge Algenon Marbley, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Ohio, Subodh Chandra
Ohioans Denied Early-Voting Appeal by U.S. Supreme Court
Boards of elections across Ohio were ordered to open their doors to in-person, early voters the weekend before the election by Ohio’s election chief after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the latest appeal on early voting. All Ohio voters will be able to vote in-person on November 3, 4, and 5.These dates […]
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Early Voting Reinstated in Ohio for the 2012 Presidential Election
A federal court appeal was reinstated on October 5 to allow voters in Ohio to vote in-person and without an excuse three days before Election Day on November 6. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in a case targeting a state law that ends early voting for most […]
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- Tags: voting