 1.25.12
“It’s time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America,” said President Barak Obama. Read more.
1.25.12
Sen. Capri Cafaro has stepped down from her role as minority leader of the Ohio Senate Democrats. Read more.
1.24.12
America's unionized workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: lockouts. Read more.
1.23.12
Cooper Tire workers spent part of their Monday in a classroom on the University of Toledo's campus trying to receive their help. Read more.
1.18.12
The casino rising on the city’s West Side of Columbus could lead to 2,650 spinoff jobs, a consultant says. Read more.
1.18.12
Ohio House Republicans, coming off a year when Ohio voters soundly rejected their attempt at collective bargaining reform, said on Tuesday they will focus this year on the economy, workers compensation reform and helping Gov. John Kasich carry out his agenda. Read more.
1.17.12
The fight of Martin Luther King, Jr., continues today in Ohio against efforts to restrict worker and voting rights, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown told a crowd honoring the slain civil rights leader Monday. Read more.
1.16.12
The head of the NFL Players Association has joined the cause of the locked out Cooper Tire workers in Findlay. Read more.
1.10.12
Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan are scheduled to speak at 12:15 p.m. Thursday in a town hall-style meeting at Gahanna Lincoln High School, White House and school officials say. Read more.
1.9.12
WASHINGTON -- The Ohio Democratic Party says that state Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican, is spending too much time tending to political duties, short-changing the citizens. Read more.
1.9.12
A so-called “gang of four” state lawmakers — two Republicans and two Democrats — say they have reached some common ground on the development of a more-balanced, less-partisan system of drawing legislative and congressional districts. Read more.
1.6.12
Richard Cordray said yesterday that the new federal consumer-protection agency he heads will aim to make “sure that financial institutions are playing by the rules,” warning the industry that “there are real consequences” for violating the law. Read more.
1.5.12
The opening of casinos in Cleveland and Toledo will be delayed for several weeks, and likely much longer, because the required background checks on the gaming operators and vendors are well behind schedule. Read more.
1.5.12
Three local businesses failed to meet requirements in exchange for nearly $3 million in taxpayer incentives for economic development. Read more.
1.4.12
Statehouse Democrats filed a lawsuit Wednesday charging that Republicans violated the Ohio Constitution last year when they drew new Ohio legislative districts. Read more.
1.4.12
U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown is urging the federal government to force banks to stop the practice of walking away from their responsibilities for properties both before and after foreclosure. Read more.
1.3.12
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown spoke to locked-out Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. employees Monday, offering his help to end the contract dispute and expressing concern about the shrinking middle class.
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