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1 week ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
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1 week ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — County coroners who investigate causes of death and sign death certificates would no longer be elected under a provision added to the Ohio House of Representatives’ version of the next state budget. Instead, county commissioners would appoint someone to the job every four years. “We’ve had a ton of debate for years and years over the fact that it’s really hard to find folks who want to serve as a coroner at all,” said Rep.
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1 week ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Toledo murder suspect Darnell Jones on Thursday waived arraignment and a bond hearing in Franklin County Municipal Court on a charge of felonious assault on a police officer in connection with a confrontation with Columbus police. Judge Jim O’Grady granted the request of Assistant County Prosecutor Marla Fahrbacher for 15 days to arrange for medical transport of Jones, 33, also known as Darnell Jerome Ogletree in court records, back to Lucas County.
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — The Ohio House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Wednesday for a two-year budget that Republicans argued would set the state on a reasonable path to growth but Democrats contend ignores everyday Ohioans. The 60-39 vote, in which a handful of Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition, essentially brings the process to halftime. Debate now shifts to the Senate with a final budget due on Mr. DeWine’s desk by June 30.
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Ohio school districts would be able to keep a bit more of their savings accounts before being forced to refund the largess to taxpayers under changes made Tuesday in anticipation of a full budget vote in the House on Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Some 350 library advocates and a large yellow dog mascot descended on the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, the day before lawmakers are expected to cast their first budget votes that could eliminate their permanent funding source. Gov. Mike DeWine won applause as he urged continuation of public libraries’ dedicated fund that slices 1.7 percent off the top of all general tax revenues to send their way, something he proposed increasing to 1.75 percent in his plan.
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Ohio House Republicans’ proposed state budget expected to come to a vote on Wednesday is where previously separate debates over school funding and property tax reform are colliding. Reacting to complaints among some growing districts back home that were facing funding cuts under Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposal, the House GOP plan guarantees no district will receive less basic aid from the state for the next two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Primary election voters may begin weighing in as soon as Tuesday on $2.5 billion in new state borrowing over the next decade for road, bridge, water, sewer, and other local public works projects. And the question will be labeled Issue 2, despite the fact that it will be the only statewide question on the ballot for the May 6 primary election.
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3 weeks ago | 
toledoblade.com | Jim Provance
COLUMBUS — Its powers already decimated, the partly elected, partly appointed State Board of Education would be slashed from 19 members to five under a just unveiled Ohio House Republican budget proposal. All five would be appointed by the governor, so the move would eliminate the 11 elected members and three of the current appointees. “If the rulers in the statehouse have the goal of destroying public education, the first step is to eliminate democracy,” said board Vice President Teresa Fedor.
