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  • 3 days ago | toledoblade.com | Jim Provance

    COLUMBUS — Ohio Senate Republicans on Tuesday proposed going to a flat income tax rate over the course of two years. The provision was part of a massive amendment to the proposed next two-year budget that was adopted by the Senate Finance Committee. The move reduces the current top rate of 3.5 percent, which applies to those earning more than $100,000 a year, to 3.18 percent in the first year then to 2.75 percent for a fully flat tax in 2027.

  • 4 days ago | toledoblade.com | Jim Provance

    COLUMBUS — Ohio lawmakers are nearing a vote on a bill that would override some of what voters intended when they agreed to legalize the possession, sale, growing, use, and sharing of recreational marijuana by adults 21 and older. Differing visions of what voters approved and what the House of Representatives, Senate, and Gov. Mike DeWine have proposed came together last week in a revised Senate Bill 56.

  • 1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Jim Provance

    COLUMBUS — The director of the Northwest Ohio Innocence Clinic on Friday urged state lawmakers to reject a proposal that would shield certain records that attorneys rely on to prove that inmates have been wrongfully imprisoned. The changes to Ohio public records law, the latest in a trend of making previously public information off limits, was inserted into House Bill 96, the state budget bill, at the request of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

  • 1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Jim Provance

    COLUMBUS — The executive director of the Ohio Elections Commission warned lawmakers this week against dismantling the agency and handing its powers to 89 different entities with an “inherent conflict of interest.”The proposed state budget would eliminate as of Jan. 1 the independent commission of three Republicans, three Democrats, and one independent that judges violations of state campaign finance law.

  • 1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Jim Provance

    The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously voted to bar law enforcement agencies from mandating quotas for tickets and arrests or judging officers’ performances based on how well they meet those quotas. House Bill 131 now heads to the Senate, which recently passed a similar measure sponsored by Sen. Tom Patton (R., Strongsville), a former police officer.

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