State & Regional Govt & Politics
Kasich proposes $1 billion workers comp refund to businesses, governments
Ohio’s employers would receive $1 billion back from what they’ve paid into Ohio’s insurance system for injured workers, under a proposal announced by Gov. John Kasich on Thursday. The money would be divvied up among 210,000 businesses and governments that pay into Ohio’s worker’s compensation insurance system. The refund would ...
State trying to give away millions to protect Fernald site
The federal government spent $4.4 billion at the Cold War-era Feed Materials Production Center atomic plant to erase decades of pollution, making the environmentally befouled site so clean it’s now a nature preserve. Now the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is trying to keep new pollutants out of the site — ...
Cell phone, laptop, tablet theft could be felony offenses
Ohio lawmakers are considering legislation that would make stealing a cell phone, computer, laptop or tablet a felony offense.Many Ohioans carry laptops, tablets or smart phones that contain banking information, health data, extensive contact lists and other sensitive data that if stolen could wreak havoc in short order.This legislation comes ...
FBI posts photo of three from Benghazi
As the political battle over the deaths of four Americans last year in Benghazi, Libya was heating up again in Washington, D.C., the FBI on Wednesday released pictures of three men who were at the U.S. compound that was attacked on September 11, 2012, looking for clues on those responsible ...
Right-to-work divides GOP
Ohio Senate President Keith Faber struck a blow to members of his own party Wednesday, saying there is not enough GOP support behind legislation to make Ohio the 25th “right-to-work” state. >> Which states have right-to-work laws? After meeting with fellow Republicans Gov. John Kasich and House Speaker Bill Batchelder, ...
Ohio lawmakers to push right-to-work legislation
Ohio could follow in the footsteps of neighboring Michigan and Indiana to enact right-to-work legislation.Republican state Reps. Ron Maag of Lebanon and Kristina Roegner of Hudson plan to introduce two bills — one for the public sector and one for the private sector — that would end mandatory membership and ...
Pension trustees pull Hawaii trip request
The subsidized Hawaii trip is off for School Employees Retirement System trustees Barbra Phillips and Catherine Moss, who bowed to lawmaker and public pressure Tuesday and rescinded their requests for travel reimbursement for a May conference in Honolulu.Phillips and Moss both sent emails to SERS executives on Tuesday morning, less ...
Repeat gun offenders could face mandatory 11-year prison term
New tough-on-crime legislation would mandate an 11-year sentence for those convicted of illegally possessing a gun, if they previously had been convicted of two or more violent felonies. The bill, which has the backing of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, will be introduced Friday by state Sen. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus. ...
Lawmaker may have broken ethics law
Springfield Republican Sen. Chris Widener may have violated Ohio ethics law when he personally appeared before a state board to appeal a building code ruling on a fire hall he designed as part of his private business, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Widener was in the Ohio Senate when ...
JobsOhio staff given hefty raises
In August 2010, then-candidate John Kasich announced his plan to privatize the Ohio Department of Development, calling the government agency a “black hole” that failed to even return phone calls.“The days of trying to connect with business leaders through bureaucrats are over,” Kasich said during a campaign appearance at a ...
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