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‘Troubling' Legal Theory Pops Up In Redistricting, Questions Power To Draw Maps
A very old legal theory is coming up amid redistricting chaos and Ohio's legal limbo on its legislative and congressional maps.
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Ohio City Sues Netflix And Hulu For Piece Of Streaming Pie
A small, Cleveland suburb has filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Hulu, trying to force the streaming companies to pay a franchise fee t ...
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Who Paid The Bribes? Judge Demands Answers In FirstEnergy Shareholders' Suit
About seven months ago, FirstEnergy, as a company, admitted to federal law enforcement to paying out two, multimillion dollar sets of br ...
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Attorney General Seeks Financial Info From Medicaid Contractors
In the past month, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has sought financial information from the state's five managed-care contractors, docu ...
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GOP Redistricting Attorneys Ask Court To Make Decision On Congressional Map After 2022 Election
Legislative leaders and the state's chief elections officer dug their heels in on continuing on with the May primary election, even as O ...
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State Employee Pension Fund To Audit Big PBM
The Ohio Employees Pension Fund is seeking proposals for a firm to audit Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager that in 2020 hand ...
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Congressional Map Challengers Ask Court To Stop Map Use
The League of Women Voters and a group of Ohioans represented by a national redistricting group have asked the Ohio Supreme Court to kee ...
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Ohio Senate Moves Forward With Primary Ballot Extension For Overseas, Military Citizens
The Ohio Senate hurried along legislation Tuesday that would extend the amount of time allowed to send and receive absentee ballots for ...
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COVID Vaccination Hits Record Lull In Ohio; Less Than 2 In 3 Are Vaccinated
Ohio's COVID-19 vaccination campaign has hit a new lull after two months of record low numbers of residents getting vaccinated.
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DeWine Reappoints Utility Commissioner Who Didn't Do Much To Protect FirstEnergy Customers
One might think that Gov. Mike Dewine would want to clean house at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
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Ohio Judge Withdraws From Probes Into Nuclear Bailout He Helped Write
A state judge who oversees utility cases withdrew himself Friday from four cases involving legislation now at the center of a criminal p ...
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Gun Lobbyist Wrote GOP Lawmakers' ‘Permitless Carry' Speech, Document Data Shows
Last April, two Republicans in the Ohio House told lawmakers their “constitutional carry” bill would ease the bureaucratic hassle of und ...
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Abortion Bill Affecting Doctors
A Hamilton County judge has blocked the state from enforcing a new abortion-related law temporarily.
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With Inflation, Supply-Chain Kinks, Plight Of Ohio Food Banks Grows
For millions of Ohioans, world events are making it harder to fill their pantries and refrigerators, an official who helps oversee the s ...
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Survey: Ohio Economists Disagree On Whether YouTube, Facebook Operate As Monopolies
Some social-media powerhouses have already come under fire in Ohio. Now a majority of a panel of Ohio economists says three of the bigge ...
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Ohio's Top Election Official Slams “Liberal Media” Over CBS Ukraine Reporting
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has his hands full right now.
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Ohio Supreme Court Justices At Odds Over Chief Justice Power In Postponed Contempt Hearing
A contempt hearing for the Ohio Redistricting Commission has been pulled down as Ohio Supreme Court justices review a new set of maps, b ...
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EPA Coal Ash Crackdown Could Shutter Southeast Ohio Power Plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on groundwater pollution from the James M. Gavin power plant in Cheshire, whic ...
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GOP Majority Passes Third Round Of Ohio Statehouse Maps In 4-3 Vote
Four Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission passed a third round of legislative maps Thursday, exactly one week after t ...
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Three Men Plead Guilty To Plotting A White Supremacist Attack On Power Grid
Three men, one from Ohio, pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges after admitting their plans to attack the power grid “in furtheran ...
