With the 2012 presidential election less than 200 days away, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted used the Delaware County Board of Elections to kick off a state-wide drive to recruit poll workers and highlight changes in election procedure.
COLUMBUS — Justices asked tough questions of both sides Tuesday as they weighed a case that seeks to scrap Ohio’s newly drawn legislative map on the premise it was gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
Former Delaware County Sheriff Al Myers’ quest to become a Delaware County commissioner may have hit a speed bump yesterday with the introduction of legislation by State Sen. Kris Jordan (R-Powell) that would prevent former public officials convicted of certain ethics violations from holding public office until all conditions of their sentence have been fulfilled.
COLUMBUS — He’s fresh off a bruising fight and ultimate defeat over the rights of unionized public workers. His approval ratings among voters are low.
COLUMBUS — Several Republican state senators have been reviewing for weeks the idea of repealing Ohio’s new elections law that trims early voting days in the presidential battleground state and makes other election changes, the leader of Ohio’s Senate said Thursday.
When Lewis Center resident Mary O’Connor-Shaver attended her first dog auction in 2006, she knew that something needed to be done to put an end to the events where hundreds of discarded puppy mill dogs, oftentimes in poor health, are sold to the highest bidder.
COLUMBUS — With time running out to move the state’s presidential and U.S. House primaries back to March, an Ohio congressman is asking a judge to put contested GOP-drawn congressional lines into place immediately.
CLEVELAND — A government watchdog group has found that oil and gas companies have spent nearly $3 million in the last decade on lobbying and campaign contributions in Ohio — a state that is believed to be on the verge of a natural gas boom in the coming years.