
Morgan Trau
Political Reporter at WEWS-TV (Cleveland, OH)
Award-winning & losing #Ohio Statehouse reporter @WEWS @WCPO, words in @OhioCapJournal. Newhouse. Described as "edgy" & "nosy." 🕵🏻♀️ [email protected].
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news5cleveland.com | Morgan Trau
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The proposals to overturn legislation overhauling higher education, eliminate property taxes and end qualified immunity will not be on the November ballot, despite advocates trying to get the question to Ohio voters. Public education advocates have fallen short 50,000 signatures of the needed 250,000 to put a referendum on the Ohio ballot, Youngstown State University Professor Dr. Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich said.
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2 days ago |
ohiocapitaljournal.com | Morgan Trau
Ohio Republicans passed a $60 billion operating budget that includes tax cuts for the wealthy, funding for a new Cleveland Browns stadium, and restrictions on education. The GOP says it is a fiscally conservative and responsible budget. The Democrats say it is a budget for billionaires — not the working-class Ohioans. In the dead of night, the Republicans on the Conference Committee approved a final budget. But while Ohioans were sleeping at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning — we were there.
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2 days ago |
news5cleveland.com | Morgan Trau
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Republicans passed a $60 billion operating budget, which includes tax cuts for the wealthy, funding for a new Cleveland Browns stadium and restrictions on education. The GOP says it is a fiscally conservative and responsible budget. The Democrats say it is a budget for billionaires — not the working-class Ohioans. In the dead of night, the Republicans on the Conference Committee approved a final budget.
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2 days ago |
springfieldnewssun.com | Morgan Trau
In the nearly 600 amendments to the 5,500-page operating budget bill, the conference committee led by House Finance Chair Brian Stewart, R-Ashville and Senate Finance Chair Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, included changes to the State Teachers Retirement System.
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2 days ago |
lovelandmagazine.com | Morgan Trau
Ohio House Finance Chair Brian Stewart, left, and Ohio Senate Finance Chair Jerry Cirino, right, sit and talk before Conference Committee. (Photo by Morgan Trau, WEWS.)Ohio legislative leaders say a compromise has been reached on the state’s operating budget — sharing early details that the wealthy will get a tax cut and the Cleveland Browns get hundreds of millions for their new stadium. Despite efforts, there has been no word on education funding as of Tuesday evening.
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NEW: Republican lawmakers want to require Ohioans to have their "biological sex" listed on their licenses and state IDs. This is just one of the bills impacting the LGBTQ+ community being heard during Pride Month. @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal https://t.co/4PSzCgcv7s

.@ClayLePard’s SCOOP: The White House’s proposed budget for Ohio’s NASA Glenn Research Center and the Neil Armstrong Test Facility calls for cutting 550+ jobs over the next year. Nearly 40% of its workforce. @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal https://t.co/z9MHvw1XjW

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