Statehouse and Around Ohio
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Utility rights for tenants
Loveland, Ohio – As the first winter storm approaches and you worry more about staying warm, you don’t have to be a homeowner to have rights when it comes to electric and natural gas service. Tenants also have options for energy assistance if they directly pay their own utility bills. Here are several resources that…
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Groups ramp up work on budget agenda for Ohio children
by Mary Schuermann Kuhlman, Public News Service – OH Columbus, Ohio – More than a dozen groups are banding together to make sure Ohio does right by its children in the next state budget cycle. The Ohio Children’s Budget Coalition is ramping up efforts to maintain, protect and strengthen public resources that support children. The Coalition on Homelessness…
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Teachers unions urge veto on school funding bill
By Susan Tebben the Ohio Capital Journal Two of Ohio’s top teachers unions are asking the governor to veto a new education bill just passed by the legislature. The Ohio Senate and House passed Senate Bill 89 last week after it spent months in a conference committee being revised and developed into a bill that, among other things,…
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Governor DeWine signs Ohio Certificate of Ascertainment
Columbus, Ohio – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today signed Ohio’s Certificate of Ascertainment, which identifies the appointed electors and final vote count in Ohio for each candidate in the U.S. Presidential Election held on November 3, 2020. Ohio’s Certificate of Ascertainment shows the most popular votes went to Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence.…
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2020 Loveland area Election results
Here are election results as of November 23 as reported by Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren counties. The State-wide and U.S. Congress results are those reported from the Ohio Secretary of State. If you notice any errors in this report please EMAIL us so we can make corrections. The Voter Turnout in Clermont County was 76.71%…
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Two new COVID-19 dashboards tracking the number of cases at Ohio child care centers are now available
The first dashboard tracks the number of children and staff cases in individual child care centers, and day camps. Because of the small size of home-based providers, many of which serve six or fewer children, positive COVID cases from children and adults in those facilities will be tracked by county on a separate dashboard.
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Read the revised health order to limit mass gatherings in Ohio
Loveland, Ohio – On Monday, Governor Mike DeWine announced that Ohio Department of Health Interim Director Lance Himes signed a revised health order to limit mass gatherings in Ohio. “Despite the health order that limited mass gatherings to 10 people that was signed in April remaining in effect, we have seen rampant spread of the virus as…
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Ohio’s vaccine prepositioning plan
The Ohio Department of Health has identified 10 sites across the state that will receive the pre-positioned vaccine after a COVID-19 vaccine is given emergency-use authorization. Once the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices issues its recommendation on how to use the vaccine, these sites will begin administering the vaccine…
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DeWine announces new curfew to try to slow covid spread
Gov. Mike DeWine is pictured during his statewide address on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Photo courtesy Ohio Channel. By Marty Schladen and the Ohio Capital Journal Desperate to slow the spread of coronavirus, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday announced a new curfew intended to decrease person-to-person contacts and new infections. The move was greeted with skepticism…
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Trump swipe at DeWine follows year of campaign support, and COVID-19 praise
President Donald Trump meeting with governors, including Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. By Tyler Buchanan A year of Gov. Mike DeWine defending the president’s pandemic response and supporting his reelection effort was undone by a brief acknowledgment of reality on cable TV. To President Donald Trump, one comment is all it takes…
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