Karen Kasler
Statehouse Bureau Chief at The Statehouse News Bureau
Journalist, Ohio Statehouse Bureau Chief, @ideastream/@WKSU/@WVIZ @WOSU @917wvxu @WOUB WCBE @WYSO. ❤️ my kid, cats, CLE⚾, CBJ🏒, OSU🏈 [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wosu.org | Karen Kasler
Union groups have begun an effort they hinted at when Republican lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1 earlier this year. That’s the legislation that Republicans say will halt what they see as liberal indoctrination at public universities by banning faculty strikes and most mandatory diversity programs. The union representing Youngstown State University faculty is circulating petitions to ask voters to repeal Senate Bill 1.
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1 week ago |
wosu.org | Karen Kasler
A proposal that rail advocates say will move Ohio toward reviving passenger train service for the first time since the 1970s is back on track. The budget that House Republicans passed would allow Ohio to rejoin the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission, a group working on passenger rail networks. The language to allow Ohio to rejoin the commission was dropped by the Senate from the transportation budget because of concerns over where the $50,000 to pay for it would come from.
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2 weeks ago |
wosu.org | Karen Kasler
The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds. That money would be the state’s portion of funding for a $3.4 billion domed stadium project for the Cleveland Browns in Brook Park. There was a long shot attempt to challenge the idea, but it came up short. The bonds will cost the state nearly a billion dollars over 30 years.
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2 weeks ago |
ideastream.org | Karen Kasler
Business owners, retirees, investors and economists are all watching the extreme volatility in the U.S. economy following President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. State officials are also monitoring it, because Ohio has to have a balanced two-year budget. What happens in the next few weeks could dramatically affect the budget negotiation process.
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2 weeks ago |
wosu.org | Karen Kasler
Business owners, retirees, investors and economists are all watching the extreme volatility in the U.S. economy following President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. State officials are also monitoring it, because Ohio has to have a balanced two-year budget. What happens in the next few weeks could dramatically affect the budget negotiation process.
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Republicans in the Ohio House teamed up to approve $600M in bonds for the new domed stadium and development for the Cleveland Browns in Brook Park - but there were a few strategic moves on the House floor that happened before that vote https://t.co/RF3J3LRmRJ
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