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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Bill would permit concealed carry in restaurants that serve alcohol
Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, has introduced legislation eliminating the restriction against carrying concealed weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol.
Senate Bill 239 also would remove provisions that state where a gun must be stored while being transported in a vehicle.
Jones is joint sponsor with Sen. Tim Schaffer, R-Lancaster.
“The decision six years ago to allow law-abiding Ohioans to carry concealed weapons has not turned our state into the Wild West,” Jones said in a press release on Tuesday, March 16.
“It is time to update the law so that it works better. This legislation will improve the regulations for carrying so that they are more straightforward and in line with other states.”
However, Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Violence, called lifting the restriction on concealed weapons in restaurants with alcohol “a little bit ridiculous.”
“This is not what people want,” said Hoover. “It doesn’t have anything to do with gun owners. It has to do with common sense.”
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TweetWomen nominees to “campaign” for Ohio spot in Statuary Hall
The three women finalists for an Ohio statue in Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., will do some campaigning on Saturday, March 20, in Columbus.
Actually, it will be three actors representing the women- Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton and astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Challenger explosion.
They’ll be at the Ohio Historical Center, 1982 Velma Ave. in Columbus, from noon until 3 p.m. The center is one of 36 spots around the state where Ohioans will be able to vote for their candidate from Saturday through June 12. Ohioans also will be able to vote by downloading a ballot.
Saturday’s campaigning is sponsored by Equal Visibility Everywhere, a new not-for-profit group “dedicated to achieving gender parity in the symbols and icons of the United States,” according to the group’s Web page.
The campaign is Ohio is the group’s “first hot project,” the Web page said. Women represent just nine of the current 100 statues in Statuary Hall, a press release said.
The new statue will replace Gov. William Allen. The other seven finalists are: the Wright brothers from Dayton; inventor Thomas Edison; former U.S. Rep. William McCulloch of Piqua; Olympic athlete Jesse Owens; President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant; abolitionist James M. Ashley and Albert Sabin, who developed the oral vaccine to prevent polio.
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TweetXavier survey: “American Dream” in trouble
The “American Dream” is in trouble.
That’s the key finding of an unusual survey released on Tuesday, March 16, by the Institute for Politics and the America Dream at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
The American Dream Survey found:
*Americans overwhelmingly believe that the dream is harder to achieve for them than it was for prior generations and that it will be even tougher for future generations.
*Americans also believe the country is in decline.
*Despite the negative overall attitudes, individuals believe in their own ability to achieve the dream - 67 percent say they’re confident they can gain it in their lifetime.
*Immigrants and racial minorities are more hopeful and positive about the condition of the American dream.
*In the industrial Midwest - which in the survey includes Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin- the condition of the American dream received the lowest marks.
For the survey, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates conducted 1,022 telephone interviews with adults from Feb. 14-21. The survey included an oversample of 257 additional interviews with first and second generation immigrants, bringing the total immigrant sub-sample up to 418.
The margin of error for the base sample is plus or minus 3.1 percent.
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TweetYost gets Putnam County endorsement in GOP auditor’s race
In what’s turning out to be almost a county-by-county battle for endorsements, Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost has gained the endorsement of the Putnam County Republican Party in the race for the GOP nomination for state auditor.
“Dave Yost’s conservative credentials and his outstanding record of accomplishment as a county auditor and prosecutor make him the best choice and most qualified candidate for state auditor in either party.
“Our county party is proud to stand along with Dave Yost and the tremendous slate of candidates our party has to offer in 2010,” Putnam County GOP Chair Lyle McKanna said in a press release on Monday, March 15.
Yost is running for the nomination against state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights. Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper is the Democratic candidate.
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