Home > Blogs > Ohio politics (Skip to blog navigation.)
The Republican parties of Ohio and Georgia announced Thursday they will team up for the March 1 presidential debate in Atlanta.
The debate, which will air live on CNN, will take place somewhere in Metro Atlanta, although state party leaders have yet to say where.
Permalink | |
By Jack Torry Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner vowed Wednesday that Congress would reverse the Obama administration’s new rule requiring religious affiliated hospitals and schools to offer contraceptives in their insurance plans to their employees.
In a brief speech on the House floor, Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., assailed the new rule as “an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country,’’ and insisted that it “will not stand.’’
Boehner, a Catholic who attended Moeller High School in Cincinnati, charged that the Obama administration “has drifted dangerously beyond its constitutional boundaries, encroaching on religious freedom in a manner that affects millions of Americans and harms some of our nation’s most vital institutions.’’
Continue reading "Boehner says Congress will overturn Obama’s new birth control policy"...
Permalink | |
By Jeremy P. Kelley Staff Writer
Rob Scott stepped down as president of the Dayton Tea Party last weekend and said he is definitely considering a run for chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party.
Scott, a 29-year-old attorney who was elected to Kettering City Council in November, said he plans to stay involved in the Dayton Tea Party chapter, which he founded three years ago.
“I want to work toward getting more conservatives elected,” Scott said Wednesday. “If being county chairman is the best way to unelect Barack Obama and (Sen.) Sherrod Brown, then I will do it.” Scott said he was asked to serve as county chairman by several local elected officials, business leaders and grass-roots Republican officers.
Continue reading "Dayton Tea Party president steps down"...
Permalink | |
Our statehouse reporter Laura Bischoff is in Stuebenville to cover Gov. John Kasich’s state of the state address. We will be blogging during the speech here and have complete coverage in Wednesday’s newspaper. The speech started around 1:26 p.m. and ended at 2:50 p.m.
2:50 p.m.: Kasich ends his address.
2:43 p.m.: Kasich says urban areas of Ohio have a 35 percent drop out rate.
2:40 p.m.: Kasich says only 14 percent of students in 4-year colleges in Ohio graduate. He said the emphasis should not be on enrollment, but on graduation.
2:38 p.m.: Kasich says there are 80,000 unfilled jobs in Ohio. He says there are 77 programs in 13 agencies focused on job training. He said there’s “no accountability.” He said companies need to forecast their job needs more. He says community colleges need to play a bigger role. He said the graduation rate at community colleges in Ohio is only 10 percent.
2:34 p.m.: Protesters disrupt Kasich while he’s speaking.
2:30 p.m.: Kasich says Ohio needs an energy policy that “makes us independent.” “We’re the Saudi Arabia of coal,” he said.
2:22 p.m.: Kasich says unmanned flights at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is “the future of aerospace.” Says getting the FAA to expand the airspace will boost development at Wright-Patt and the Air National Guard Base in Springfield.
Continue reading "Jobs, education and Wright-Patt focus of Kasich’s state of the state address"...
Permalink | |
By Lynn Hulsey and Eric Schwartzberg
DAYTON - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spent nearly 20 minutes of his speech in Dayton Tuesday on a history lesson about the Wright Brothers invention of the airplane and then said they would not have succeeded if government “bureaucrats” had been involved.
But Gingrich also praised inventions that came from NASA, the government’s space program, and said his Republican opponents lack vision when they criticize his desire to expand space exploration.
He said it could be done without spending a tremendous amount of money by simply removing the “bureaucrats”, lines that earned repeated applause from the audience that crammed the lobby of Memorial Hall in downtown Dayton.
Continue reading "Gingrich campaigns in Dayton, Cincinnati"...
Permalink | |
By Jessica Wehrman Washington Bureau
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner is protesting the fact that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Program has failed to produce responses to questions Turner submitted last November over how and why officials decided to to cut Delphi salaried retiree pensions by as much as 70 percent.
In a Feb. 2 letter to Joshua Gotbaum, director of the PBGC, Turner, R-Centerville, wrote that PBGC Deputy Director for Operations Vincent Snowbarger has repeatedly failed to produce responses to questions he submitted in November.
Continue reading "Congressman Turner questioning cuts to Delphi pensions"...
Permalink | |
As the race for Ohio’s Republican delegates heats up, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will campaign in Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus on Tuesday.
The details of the events have not been released. We will post them as soon as we get them on this blog.
Mitt Romney will be in the Cleveland area on Feb. 16. Rick Santorum will be in Columbus Feb. 18.
Follow us at Twitter.com/ohio_politics for all the latest news and information from the campaign trail.
Permalink | |
The Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce is hosting a levy information forum from 9 to 10 a.m. Feb. 7 at the Courtyard by Marriott, 2777 Fairfield Commons Blvd. in Beavercreek.
The Beavercreek City School District is asking voters to approve a 6.7-mill emergency operating levy in March, which will cost an additional $205 annually per $100,000 of appraised property value. Superintendent Nick Verhoff and Treasurer Steve Maag will be available to meet with residents and answer questions about the school funding processes and the issues facing the district.
A continental breakfast will be available courtesy of the Courtyard by Marriott.
Permalink | |
By TOM LoBIANCO Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is fighting an Indiana election board’s ruling that he does not have enough support to appear on the state ballot in the May 8 primary.
All statewide candidates are required to obtain 500 valid signatures from each of Indiana’s nine congressional districts in order to be placed on the ballot. The Marion County Board of Elections has ruled that Santorum fell 24 signatures short in Indiana’s 7th District.
Continue reading "Santorum fails to make Indiana ballot, plans to challenge"...
Permalink | |
By Laura A. Bischoff Columbus Bureau
COLUMBUS - Insurance giant American International Group Inc. must pay $725 million to settle a securities class action lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension systems. The retirement funds are expected to get a $5.5 million cut in about six months, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office.
U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts of the Southern District of New York approved the latest settlement, which resolves charges that AIG engaged in accounting fraud, bid-rigging and stock price manipulation between October 1999 and April 2005.
Continue reading "Ohio workers to get payouts from $725 AIG settlement"...
Permalink | |
Copyright © 2010 Cox Ohio Publishing, Dayton, Ohio, USA. All rights reserved.
By using this site, you accept the terms of our Visitors Agreement and Privacy Policy. You may wish to note our other business policies.
Beavercreek vs. Springboro boys
2012 HomeWorld
Hamilton vs. Princeton