Statehouse and Around Ohio
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DeWine’s nursing home visitation report
Governor Mike DeWine today issued the following statement on nursing home visitation: The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ohio’s nursing homes has dropped significantly to 343 new cases last week compared to the peak of 2,832 new cases in December. As the number of nursing-home cases continues to drop due to vaccinations in long-term…
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YouTube censors Ohio House hearing video for COVID-19 misinformation
Tom Renz speaks to the House State and Local government Committee Feb. 17. Source: Ohio Channel. By Jake Zuckerman and Ohio Capital Journal Columbus, Ohio – The opening testimony Wednesday in support of a legislative effort to allow lawmakers to vote down public health orders went far enough off the rails for YouTube to remove footage…
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Never needed? Senate president predicts little opposition to nuclear bailout repeal
By Marty Schladen and Ohio Capital Journal A billion-dollar nuclear subsidy was the subject of an intense fight in 2019 and great controversy since. But the president of the Ohio Senate this week predicted that a repeal will make it through the House, Senate and that Gov. Mike DeWine will sign it. The reason: The company…
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Health department epidemiologist resigns after state discovers 4000 omitted COVID-19 deaths
By Jake Zuckerman and Ohio Capital Journal An epidemiology investigator resigned last week and the head of the Bureau of Infectious Diseases was reassigned after the state health department discovered it undercounted Ohio’s COVID-19 death toll by about 34%. Karthik Kondapally resigned from the Ohio Department of Health, said Arundi Venkayya, the department’s chief communications officer, in…
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Along with health department, state auditor missed 4,000 COVID-19 deaths during
Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber. (Official photo) The precise nature of Faber’s audit remains shrouded in mystery By Jake Zuckerman and Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio State Auditor’s months-long investigation into the state health department’s COVID-19 data practices failed to detect the 4,000 newly discovered COVID-19 deaths announced by the Ohio Department of Health last…
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DeWine refuses to explain aide’s role in bailout scandal
By Marty Schladen and Ohio Capital Journal If you asked most people to start up a dark money group and then funnel more than $1 million through it and into another such group, they’d probably want to know what it was going to be used for. But now that the second 501(c)(4) dark-money group, Generation Now, has…
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Education budget debate begins as Jan. budget shows declines in higher ed, K-12
Getty Images. By Susan Tebben and Ohio Capital Journal Subcommittees on K-12 and higher education are beginning their discussions on the new operating budget this week, and they have plenty of budgetary information to look at, including declines shown in the January budget report. The Ohio House Finance subcommittee on higher education will take their first…
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Sen. Sherrod Brown issues statement justifying impeachment vote of “Guilty”
In the 57-43 vote, seven Republicans joined every Senate Democrat and independent in support of convicting Trump. Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman voted to acquit Trump. Ohio Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to convict.
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Sen. Portman issues statement justifying “Not Guilty” impeachment vote
The photo above was posted to U.S Senator Rob Portman’s Facebook page on February 3 with the following statement: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” This morning I had a chance to pay my respects to USCP officer Brian Sicknick who lost his life in defense of the U.S.…
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Portman voted to acquit – Brown voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial
By Laura Olson and Ohio Journal The U.S. Senate voted on Saturday to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding his second impeachment trial with the same verdict as his first impeachment. In the 57-43 vote, seven Republicans joined every Senate Democrat…
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