A key provision of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law, Senate Bill 5, is that public employers have the right to make (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 More…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was scheduled to give a speech at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday morning, but a few unexpected guests in attendance had their own message to deliver.
Gov. Terry Branstad and Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey have asked the U.S. Department of Labor to extend the commenting period on new child labor laws that could impact family farming operations in Iowa and throughout the nation.
The same group that helped open the door for a Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections is now trying to slam the door shut on the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of Ohio’s public employees.
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, absentee voting was responsible More…
Ohio voters in 2009 approved by an overwhelming margin a ballot measure that allowed the state to borrow and spend $200 million on bonuses to Buckeye State veterans of the of the Persian Gulf War and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those same voters will now decide the More…
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 of the state’s budget woes.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Wednesday that the city may run out of cash by February and he may be interested in serving as Emergency Manager if the governor decides to appoint one.
It is unknown how a deal struck to streamline voting during the 2012 presidential election, while barring some voting-access outreach by counties in 2011, will affect turnout in Ohio as voters will go to the polls next week to decide, among other ballot items, Issue 2, the veto referendum on More…
Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president.
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