JobsOhio works amid funding question
The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday January 2, 2013 6:14 AM
JobsOhio is bringing business to the state while its intended funding stream remains on hold.
Taking the place of the state’s former, public Department of Development, the privatized JobsOhio worked with businesses to finalize 267 projects involving an estimated 70,000 new or existing jobs worth about $2.3 billion in annual payroll and $4.5 billion in capital investment this year, according to Gov. John Kasich.
That’s an improvement, by all accounts, over 2011.
But the $100 million Kasich intended for JobsOhio to receive through a complicated lease of the state’s wholesale liquor profits is still blocked by legal challenges, and the entity continues to operate on private donations.
Retired Celeste reflects at 75 on his public career
Ex-governor says he relished job, despite its wounds
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday January 1, 2013 7:16 AM
A classic goatee, close-cropped hair and svelte healthiness; a pin-striped shirt, bluejeans and navy-blue sport jacket — it all says something about a man. Mostly this: He’s hip.
But when the man is 75, as is Richard F. Celeste, the look says mostly this: He’s comfortable in his own skin.
That much was evident during a recent hour-plus conversation with one of the most-accomplished and -consequential Ohioans of the past half-century: a Rhodes scholar, state legislator, lieutenant governor, director of the Peace Corps, governor, ambassador to India and college president.
Longtime employee named House clerk
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday January 1, 2013 6:24 AM
Longtime Ohio House employee Brad Young will become the chamber’s clerk.
Young, who is succeeding Jennifer Woodring, worked in the House from 1995 through 2009, including two years as assistant clerk. He has spent the past three years working for U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, R-Beavercreek, and most recently state Treasurer Josh Mandel.
“Brad Young is an outstanding and dedicated individual, and I am pleased that he will be our House clerk during the 130th General Assembly,” Speaker William G. Batchelder, R-Medina, said in a statement.
Kasich's 2013 resolution: Raise drilling tax, lower state income tax
Published: Sun, December 30, 2012 @ 12:09 a.m.
news@vindy.com Second in a three-part series
COLUMBUS
Gov. John Kasich isn’t hiding his frustration with energy companies and efforts to block a proposed tax increase on oil and gas production in eastern Ohio’s shale deposits.
Lawmakers balked during the past session at Kasich’s plan to increase the state’s severance-tax rate, using the proceeds to implement a decrease in Ohio’s income-tax rates.
The plan will be included in a larger tax-reform package Kasich will offer in 2013.
Senators drive limits on memorial road-naming
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday December 25, 2012 5:48 AM
Failure to pass the latest in a line of memorial road-naming bills has prompted some state legislators to explore standardizing criteria to determine who should receive the honor.
Senate Bill 37 appeared to be just another noncontroversial bill motoring through the lame-duck session as legislators cleared the decks this month before heading home for the year. Naming roads to honor the dead, especially fallen military service members and safety personnel, has been fairly common, particularly since the United States began military actions in Iraq.
Rep. Christina Hagan marries in Statehouse rotunda
By Robert Wang
Posted Dec 24, 2012 @ 12:12 PM
State Rep. Christina Hagan, R-Marlboro Township, married Adam Nemeth in a ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse’s rotunda in Columbus on Saturday evening before about 175 guests.
Her father, John Hagan, the former state representative, said he believes his daughter will be changing her name legally to Christina Hagan-Nemeth, but she may continue to be Christina Hagan in politics.
House Speaker William G. Batchelder, R-Medina, a former state appeals court judge, performed the ceremony with Rev. Michael Cochran, the rector of Christ Church Anglican in Columbus and the former executive director of the Ohio Township Association.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Year in review: Ohio House leaders reflect on 2012
Lawmakers passed bills on texting while driving, human trafficking, pension reform and pill mills, left redistricting and severance tax on the table
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE BUREAU CHIEF KAREN KASLER
This story is part of a special series.
Year in review: Ohio House leaders reflect on 2012
Lawmakers passed bills on texting while driving, human trafficking, pension reform and pill mills, left redistricting and severance tax on the table
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE BUREAU CHIEF KAREN KASLER
This story is part of a special series.
2012 wasn’t supposed to be a busy year in the Ohio House. All 99 seats were on the ballot, and the budget had passed in 2011.
But as Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports, this year was a lot bigger than many expected.
The House passed 180 bills in the two years of the general assembly – 89 this year. And Republican Speaker Bill Batchelder says there was a lot of bipartisanship in the last year. “We had 38 joint sponsored bills in this session, and 15 totally Democrat sponsored bills that came out of committees.”
Lawmakers teamed up to pass bills on texting while driving, human trafficking, pension reform and pill mills. But they continued to squabble, largely along party lines, over measures on guns, education and abortion, including the so-called Heartbeat Bill, which passed the House in 2011 but in December saw some action in the Senate, though no final vote. Minority Leader Armond Budish of Beachwood in suburban Cleveland says voters in November clearly said they preferred the Democratic view on these issues.
“And yet the first bills that get discussed in the state legislature when we come back are defunding Planned Parenthood and the Heartbeat Bill – which are not bipartisan bills by any means.”
Batchelder says there’s no question the Heartbeat Bill will be reintroduced, but he’s hoping next time it will start in the Senate. Another thing Batchelder is confident will be discussed in the new General Assembly – the way the state draws boundaries for lawmakers’ districts. And he isn’t happy about the redistricting bill that the Senate passed in December – which never got to the House.
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