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Ohio GOP pushes through heavily Republican redistricted map

By | 12.15.11 | 2:21 pm

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…

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pfeifer: ‘The day will come when Ohio no longer has the death penalty’

By | 12.15.11 | 12:04 pm

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.