Statehouse and Around Ohio
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As if COVID wasn’t bad enough, experts warn of lingering symptoms
BY: MARTY SCHLADEN – Ohio Capital Journal With nearly 5,000 new cases of COVID per day, Ohio and the rest of the world are still dealing with a pandemic that started nearly two years ago. What we’ve barely begun to deal with, two experts said last week, is the long hangover many experience as “long COVID.” That expression refers…
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Economists pan stadium construction as economic development
BY: MARTY SCHLADEN – https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/Ohio Capital Journal Most major American cities have likely been through some version of this: A sports team is promising to come or threatening to leave and the key is construction of a new stadium. And while the teams’ owners usually are millionaires or even billionaires, they demand big subsidies from…
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Gov. DeWine signs Republican congressional map with huge GOP advantage
BY: DAVID DEWITT – Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed Statehouse Republicans’ congressional map for Ohio giving the GOP a substantial advantage, claiming that of all the maps presented it “makes the most progress to produce a fair, compact and competitive map.” DeWine pointed to fewer county splits in the map and the number of…
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Senate passes congressional map that continues GOP stronghold over state
State Sen. Rob McColley, R-Napoleon. Photo by Susan Tebben, OCJ. BY: SUSAN TEBBEN – Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Senate Republicans rushed through a congressional redistricting map Tuesday introduced to the public less than 24 hours before. It was passed out of committee 5-2 along partisan lines before being passed by the whole chamber later in the day 24-7,…
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Statehouse Republicans introduce congressional map heavily favoring GOP
Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima. Photo from the Ohio Channel. BY: DAVID DEWITT – Ohio Capital Journal Statehouse Republicans introduced a newly drawn map for Ohio’s districts in U.S. Congress Monday night that maintains a firm GOP majority. While amendments are possible, the map is poised to pass out of a Senate committee Tuesday with a…
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COVID-19 rises again in an undervaccinated Ohio
Photo by John Moore | Getty Images. BY: JAKE ZUCKERMAN – Ohio Capital Journal (Local dated added by Loveland Magazine) COVID-19 cases are once again ascendant in the 10th least vaccinated state in the nation. State data shows infection rates are climbing and the workloads are reupping at hospitals, where more than 2,700 Ohioans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. An…
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Ohio senators mulling major revisions to medical marijuana system
BY: NICK EVANS – Ohio Capital News Ohio senators have filed legislation that represents a broad revision of the state’s medical marijuana system. Among the changes is language expanding access to the drug if a physician “reasonably” believes their patient’s symptoms would be relieved or they would otherwise benefit from marijuana. It’s a potentially massive expansion of eligibility for patients…
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Public’s tears and fears come out before redistricting heads to joint committee
The Ohio Senate Local Government and Elections Committee hears from the public on two redistricting proposals, one from Senate Dems and the other from the Senate GOP on November 4. BY: SUSAN TEBBEN – Ohio Capital Journal The last of the General Assembly’s congressional redistricting public hearings in individual committees are this week, just as a joint committee…
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Ohio House Dems submit congressional redistricting maps
BY: SUSAN TEBBEN – Ohio Capital Journal House Democrats have thrown their congressional redistricting maps in the ring, completing the partisan caucus proposals. State Reps. Richard Brown, D-Canal Winchester, and Tavia Galonski, D-Akron, submitted the maps on Friday as what they call “a more realistic vision for Ohio compared to the widely criticized House and Senate…
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GOP releases proposed congressional maps preserving their huge advantage
Rep. Scott Oelslager, R-North Canton, introducing the OH House Congressional plan (Photo by Nick Evans, OCJ.) Dems criticize last-minute maps, question intent BY: SUSAN TEBBEN and NICK EVANS and Ohio Capital Journal In committee hearings Wednesday, Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled their plans for new congressional districts. In both cases Democrats complained the maps were…
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