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After SB5 defeat and budget that cuts funds to localities, Kasich warns against cities asking for state to ‘bail them out’

By | 11.09.11 | 7:14 pm

After voters felled Ohio Governor John Kasich’s signature anti-collective-bargaining law yesterday, he responded with an assurance that the state wasn’t going to pony up any new cash to help struggling cities.

Planned Parenthood starts new campaign to stave off anti-abortion-rights measures in 2012

By | 11.09.11 | 5:56 pm

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching — more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching.

Ohio voters reject anti-collective-bargaining law

By | 11.09.11 | 11:59 am

Ohio voters dealt a withering blow to Governor John Kasich as 82 of 88 counties voted to repeal his signature legislation, an anti-collective-bargaining bill, through a citizens’ veto last night.

Fair weather helps get out the vote in Columbus as Ohio anti-collective-bargaining law up for voter approval

By | 11.08.11 | 4:21 pm

Update added, 7:10 p.m. EST

The beautiful weather in Ohio Tuesday may seal the fate of Senate Bill 5, the state’s new anti-collective-bargaining law that was placed on the ballot via the state referendum Issue 2. Poll workers in Central Ohio are reporting much higher turnout than is usual More…

If SB5 remains to nullify collective-bargaining law, will Ohio go back to wildcat strikes, work stoppages?

By | 11.08.11 | 12:06 pm

If Ohio voters do not reject Senate Bill 5 today in a statewide referendum, it would probably be prudent to acquaint themselves with terms such as “blue flu” and “wildcat strike.”

Former Ohio Sec. of State Brunner weighs in on absentee ballot application ban

By | 11.07.11 | 6:05 pm

Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner stopped short of criticizing her replacement, but made it clear they disagreed on the importance of absentee ballot application mailings.

New poll shows defeat looming for Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law

By | 11.07.11 | 2:47 pm

A new poll (PDF) by Public Policy Polling shows voter opinion of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law Senate Bill 5 remains extremely unfavorable. According to the poll, voters are ready to nix State Issue 2, the veto referendum on the law that goes before voters on Nov. 8, 59 percent More…

Key aspect of Ohio’s anti-labor law SB5 gives public employers great leeway in defining rules, regulations

By | 11.04.11 | 6:52 pm

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…

Citizens United joins other outside groups spending on ad buys to support Ohio anti-labor law

By | 11.04.11 | 1:10 pm

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.

Ohio voting-rights advocates decry diminished local control of absentee-ballot distribution

By | 11.04.11 | 12:30 pm

Image by Matt MahurinWhen 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…