Local lawmakers are celebrating the Tuesday announcement of Akron as one of 12 national Tech Hubs around the country – a designation bringing with it a $51 million federal investment.
After being sworn in on April 24, Rep. Jack Daniels headed into his new office on the 11th floor and set up a single picture of Abraham Lincoln that has hung in every office he's had since purchasing it on his eighth-grade field trip to Washington, D.C.
Of the two lawmakers openly vying for the speaker's gavel in the next General Assembly, one heads toward the general election with a much larger war chest to prop up candidates supportive of him.