Party in power
Published: August 22, 2011 - 10:26 PM
Akron Beacon Journal
Just days after his election in November, John Kasich issued what amounted to an ultimatum: Get on the bus, or suffer the consequences, his administration prepared to flatten those who get in the way. On Friday, the governor accused organized labor and others of playing the same game. He pointed to their insistence on the repeal of Senate Bill 5 before entering negotiations to repair recent changes to collective bargaining for public employees in Ohio.
Ohio Republicans are to blame for partisan tone in Columbus
Published: Tue, August 23, 2011 @ 12:00 a.m.
Youngstown Vindicator
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, President of the Senate Tom Niehaus and speaker of the House Bill Batchelder, all Republicans, are either very good actors, or are politically naive. Given the results of last November’s statewide election in which Republicans swept all the offices, naivety is not an apt characterization of the three leaders. Therefore, we can only conclude that their expressions of surprise Friday at the absence of the heads of the state’s top public-employee unions to discuss the new collective bargaining law — commonly called Senate Bill 5 — was just an act.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/aug/23/ohio-republicans-are-to-blame-for-partis/?newswatchOhio Misses Deadline to Get Additional UC Funding
Hannah Report
Despite efforts by a number of human service advocates including Policy Matters Ohio since 2009 when the federal stimulus provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were first enacted (see The Hannah Report, 7/23/09), introduction of state legislation, the state's borrowing of approximately $2.6 billion so far to cover its unemployment compensation costs and an increasing unemployment rate, Monday's deadline for the state's applying to receive $176 million in additional unemployment comp (UC) funding came and went.
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