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.
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…
The poem issued forth from the speakers at the podium, reverberating off the western face of the Ohio Capitol.
We are firefighters and policemen. We are the reason your house is safe. The strength in the middle of the night when hope brews and faith is tested.
Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the budget he presented to state legislators, passed earlier this year.
Talk-radio personality Bill Cunningham has broken ranks with his fellow conservatives, urging his listeners to vote ‘no’ on Issue 2, which would repeal Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, a law that severely limits public employees’ right to collectively bargain, and voids their right to binding arbitration and to strike altogether.
Following recent layoffs of 13 firefighters in Lancaster, Ohio, despite the local union’s concessions, the town’s mayor, Republican David S. Smith, says the state’s new anti-collective-bargaining law, up for voter approval on Nov. 8, would not have alleviated the situation as supporters of the law claim.
The Occupy Columbus movement left a small contingent at their forward operating base, located on a busy downtown street directly in front of the Statehouse, as the rest of the force headed to Bicentennial Park to hold their General Assembly. The contingent was there ostensibly to protect the movement’s assets, More…
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