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Volume #79, Report #171--Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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HOUSE ELECTION, DISTRICT 19: CANDIDATES PLACE PRIORITY ON EDUCATION, JOBS, BUDGET
Leading candidates for the 19th House District want to protect education, balance the state budget and bring more jobs to the state, but the incumbent and her major-party opponent have differing plans to accomplish those goals.
'SHRINKING' YOUNGSTOWN TELLS SUPREME COURT IT CAN'T AFFORD NEW HOME FOR MUNICIPAL JUDGES
The City of Youngstown is a shrinking municipality that has raised taxes and cut employees to survive and cannot afford to comply with a local judicial order to provide a new $8 million municipal court, the city council has told the Ohio Supreme Court.
REPS. CELESTE, BATCHELDER INTRODUCE BILL TO ILLUSTRATE NEED FOR EARLY DYSLEXIA INTERVENTION
A bipartisan duo recently introduced a bill that would create a pilot project to demonstrate the effectiveness of dyslexia identification and intervention programs, the key sponsors said Wednesday.
SEPARATE POLLS SHOW KASICH WITH LEAD OVER STRICKLAND IN GOVERNOR'S RACE
Public opinion surveys from separate organizations agreed Wednesday that Republican John Kasich holds leads of 8% to 10% over Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland at this point in the race for governor.
POLITICS NOTEBOOK: SENATE CANDIDATES AGREE TO DEBATE; VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IN TOLEDO ON LABOR DAY
Major party candidates for the U.S. Senate from Ohio in the Nov. 2 election said Wednesday they have agreed to participate in three, one-hour debates in conjunction with the Ohio Newspaper Organization.
OEA STAFF STRIKE REACH AGREEMENT ON UNION CONTRACT; STAFF ON STRIKE
Half of the Ohio Education Association's staff did not come to work Wednesday with the start of a strike over a union's labor contracts, according to the organization.
Gov. Ted Strickland declared Youngstown the next in his line of Ohio Hubs of Innovation and Opportunity Wednesday, and this one will focus on the advanced materials and software-development industries.
TRANSPORTATION GRANTS FOR SCHOOL TRIPS TO STATEHOUSE MUSEUM EXHAUSTED IN FOUR HOURS
School districts across Ohio snapped up their shares of $72,000 in grants to help offset the cost of transporting students on Statehouse Museum field trips within four hours after the application period began Wednesday.
Battelle Memorial Institute said Wednesday it won a 78-month, $6.7 million contract from New York City Transit to act as the Independent Safety Assessor for the communication-based train control signal system modernization of the Flushing Line and Culver Test Track.
Anthony Trotman, chief of staff at the Department of Job & Family Services, is leaving the state agency to become director of the Franklin County DJFS, the county office announced.
