Arkansas AG stops anti-abortion group from introducing ‘personhood’ bill

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Ohio GOP pushes through heavily Republican redistricted map

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’

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.

Ohio’s increasingly unpopular governor admits he doesn’t read newspapers, hates bad news

In a speech delivered Monday at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Gov. John Kasich reaffirmed his disdain for the press. “You should know, I don’t read newspapers in the state of Ohio,” he said. “Very rarely do I read a newspaper.”

Ohio redistricting plans continue to vex state leaders, could go to referendum

The fight over re-mapping Ohio’s congressional districts has become a savage partisan battleground in Columbus, and could even result in a referendum that would have federal courts drawing the lines for lawmakers unable to compromise.

Herman Cain: With SB5, Ohio GOP ‘may have tried to get too much’

After spending at least a month “right in the corner of (Wis.) Gov. Scott Walker 100 percent,” Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain told Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel today that Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, a wide-ranging anti-collective-bargaining bill that was trounced at the polls on Tuesday, may have been an More…

Following SB5 vote, GOP and Dems begin decoding Ohio voters ahead of 2012

After the rejection of Ohio’s union-busting law, Senate Bill 5, on Tuesday, Democrats and media alike are crowing the results as good news for 2012, while Republicans have wasted no time rolling out their next attack on unions in the state.

New Ohio law restricts access to judicial bypass of abortion notification

Accessible judicial bypass provisions provide young women with an effective way to bypass the law if they fear they will More…

Fitch Ratings: Repeal of SB5 to have ‘minimal fiscal impact’ for Ohio

According to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, Ohio’s decision to overturn its contentious anti-collective-bargaining law will have little effect on its credit rating.

The law, known as Senate Bill 5, would have stripped public-employee unions’ ability to negotiate, giving the ultimate decision-making power to state and local employers, More…

Undeterred after SB5 defeat, Ohio conservative group pledges to put right-to-work measure on 2012 ballot

Fresh off a resounding loss on a ballot measure that would have severely restricted the collective bargaining rights of Ohio’s public employees, conservatives are now trying to take on unionized employees in the private sector, too.