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1 week ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
A committee in the Ohio House of Representatives is considering bipartisan legislation to create a special partnership for the purposes of developing trade, investment and economic support — among other relationships — between the Buckeye State and Israel.
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1 week ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s decision to overrule a Chillicothe Correctional Institution inmate’s effort to renege on the guilty plea he entered for the shooting death of his fiancée in November 2018.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
A West Chester lawmaker said he believes Ohioans who are paid on-demand via an employer’s agreement with an earned wage access provider or who seek a short-term advance in pay through a smartphone app would benefit from some regulation of these services. Republican Sen. George Lang said the state currently has no oversight of the consumer service that now operates in every state.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
A Tenth District Court of Appeals panel reversed the dismissal of a case brought against an Obetz man who was arrested on OVI charges and other traffic-related offenses and who argued he was denied a timely trial. The three-judge appellate panel determined that at the time the Franklin County Municipal Court dismissed 43-year-old Ronnie DeWitt’s case, prosecutors had 16 more days before the speedy-trial period would have expired.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
The sponsors of a bill that prescribes phasing out the current state income tax structure and replacing it with a flat tax recently shared details of the legislation with committee members at the Ohio House of Representatives. House Bill 30 would phase out the state income tax applicable to non-business income and replace it with a flat tax of 2.75 percent during a two-year period, according to Rep. Brian Lampton, R-Beavercreek.
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4 weeks ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
An appellate panel reversed a Fairfield County Municipal Court ruling that excluded one of the previous OVI convictions of a Canal Winchester man from the trial that resulted from a subsequent OVI offense.
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4 weeks ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
Lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would put statutory municipalities on more equal footing with charter villages and cities when it comes to filling police department vacancies. Reps. Kevin Miller, R-Newark, and Joe Miller, D-Amherst, debuted House Bill 44 — legislation that would allow statutory cities to skip the civil service examination process in certain instances when hiring a qualified police officer — to members of the Public Safety Committee this week.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
A central Ohio lawmaker recently introduced his plan to give local taxing authorities, such as counties, townships, municipalities and school districts, input into when to place certain tax levies on the ballot. House Bill 137 specifically would apply to library district levies and general-health district levies, Rep. Brian Lorenz, R-Powell, said during a Local Government Committee hearing in the Ohio House of Representatives.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
The Supreme Court of Ohio denied the writ sought by a would-be Columbus City Council candidate to compel the Franklin County Board of Elections to place his name on the ballot for the May 6 primary election. Densil Porteous, who was running for the council seat representing a district that encompasses the Short North, downtown and Far South neighborhoods, had asked the court to compel the elections board to hear his request for reconsideration at a public hearing.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyreporteronline.com | Keith Arnold
An Ohio senator has proposed legislation that would offset the costs of health-insurance mandates imposed on businesses operating in the Buckeye State. Sen. Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, said his measure, Senate Bill 129, completes work begun in 2016 with the passage of House Bill 463 during the 131st session of the General Assembly of the Ohio Legislature.
