Columbus, Dayton, gun safety advocates settle court case over …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · The cities of Dayton and Columbus as well as Everytown For Gun Safety settled a four years-long court battle this week with the state of Ohio over the criminal background check system. Under the agreement, the cities and state officials will work together to upgrade the system's technology and increase accountability among …
Science of reading curriculum is now being taught in all Ohio …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · As students return to school this fall, their reading curriculum might look a little different. This is the first academic year Ohio school districts are required to teach the science of reading curriculum, which is based on decades of research that shows how the human brain learns to read and incorporates phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, …
Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission must remove …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Last year, an oil and gas PR firm submitted more than 1,000 public comments to the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission calling for fracking of public lands, but many were found to be fraudulent but Ohio AG Dave Yost let them off the hook. The commission should at least remove the fraudulent comments.
Judge says lender created a ‘legal fiction’ to skirt payday loan ...
WEBSep 1, 2022 · A Franklin County municipal court judge last week rebuffed a “legal fiction” she said was concocted to evade Ohio’s new payday lending law and ruled against a company seeking to collect the debt. Judge Jodi Thomas, in what she indicated is one of the first major decisions under Ohio’s 2018 payday lending reform, ruled that a short …
Recreational marijuana is now legal in Ohio. Here are some do's …
WEBDec 12, 2023 · Republish photo only with original story.) Ohio became the 24th state where recreational marijuana is legal last week. The law is now in effect after voters passed Issue 2 in the November election. Although marijuana is legal, there are quite a few caveats because lawmakers can tweak that law, and it could be several months before the state ...
Market problems, poor planning causing price hikes in nation's …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · After years of climbing electric prices nationwide, customers in the United States’ largest power market are about to get squeezed harder. Last month, PJM, which coordinates the flow of electricity for an area that includes all or parts of 13 states stretching from the Midwest to New Jersey plus the District of Columbia, released capacity auction …
How will two hot-button ballot initiatives impact Ohio's November ...
WEBJul 17, 2023 · Election officials are currently combing through petitions for an abortion rights amendment and a recreational marijuana statute that could both go before voters in November. Received wisdom holds that those hot button ballot issues are good way to juice turnout. Political science literature confirms that to a certain extent, that’s true.
Ohio Democrats introduce bill that would raise the state’s …
WEBSep 19, 2023 · Ohio Democratic lawmakers have once again introduced a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage. Ohio Senators Kent Smith, D-Euclid, and Hearcel Craig, D-Columbus, recently introduced Senate Bill 146, which would gradually raise the state’s minimum wage one dollar each year until it was up to $15. Under the bill, minimum wage …
Ohio Supreme Court dismisses redistricting challenge, leaving ...
WEBNov 28, 2023 · In a drastic change from previous rulings, a partisan majority on the Ohio Supreme Court chose to leave Statehouse redistricting maps in place for 2024 and beyond, denying a challenge to the constitutionality of the newest maps.
Book bans accelerate in Ohio as new bill aims to prohibit ...
WEBMar 8, 2022 · Morgan Trau is a political reporter and multimedia journalist based out of the WEWS Columbus Bureau. A graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Trau has previously worked as an investigative, political and fact-checking reporter in Grand Rapids, Mich. at WZZM-TV; a reporter and MMJ in Spokane, …