Jackie Borchardt
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Jackie Borchardt covers Ohio government, politics and state issues from the Columbus Bureau. She has a masters degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and a bachelor of arts degree in English and Spanish from the University of Rochester.
Borchardt has worked for newspapers and magazines in Illinois, Missouri and New Orleans. Before coming to the Dayton Daily News, she covered education in Wyoming for the state newspaper there. She also covered rodeo, shot clay pigeons with an Olympic medalist and caught two dozen rainbow trout on the Miracle Mile. When she is not working, she enjoys running, cooking and teaching her dog new tricks.
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Ohio lawmakers to push right-to-work legislation
Ohio could follow in the footsteps of neighboring Michigan and Indiana to enact right-to-work legislation.Republican state Reps. Ron Maag of Lebanon and Kristina Roegner of Hudson plan to introduce two bills — one for the public sector and one for the private sector — that would end mandatory membership and ...
Former Hamilton County commissioner to run for attorney general
Ohio Democrats have their first statewide candidate for 2014. David Pepper of Cincinnati announced Monday he will challenge Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine for his position. Pepper, a former Hamilton County commissioner and Cincinnati city councilman, ran unsuccessfully against David Yost for Ohio auditor in 2010. Pepper had about $6,000 ...
Ohio lawmakers debating funding cut for Planned Parenthood
For the third time in a year, Ohio lawmakers are debating legislation to decrease federal funding to Planned Parenthood in Ohio and centers that perform or counsel about abortive services. House Republicans revived the push this week in revisions to Gov. John Kasich’s state budget bill. The provisions added to ...
House GOP make major changes to Gov. Kasich’s budget plan
Ohio House Republicans want to drastically change Gov. John Kasich’s state budget proposal and plan to scrap his expansion of Medicaid, substitute a 7 percent income tax cut for his proposed 20 percent break, and eliminate plans to hike taxes paid by oil and gas exploration companies.House Speaker William Batchelder, ...
State leaders look to reform foster care system
Sen. Peggy Lehner is sponsoring legislation to improve Ohio’s foster care system, based on recommendations released Monday from the state attorney general’s office. The Kettering Republican said she’s heard from several foster parents who thought a child was returned prematurely to the birth parents and the changes she’s proposing are ...
Bill to limit referendum process passes House panel
An elections reform bill met opposition Tuesday over a provision that could slow down ballot initiative campaigns before receiving approval from a panel of state lawmakers. Members of the League of Women Voters, former Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and others told lawmakers on the House Policy and Oversight ...
Kasich's plan gives more money to schools
Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan tackles growing disparity between poor and wealthy school districts and allows Ohio students living in poverty to attend private schools with state dollars, while boosting overall state funding for public schools. Kasich rolled out his school funding formula and other education policies Thursday to ...
Kasich to unveil plan to fund Ohio schools today
Gov. John Kasich will unveil his plan for funding Ohio’s public schools today, just days before he releases a state budget plan for the next two years. It is expected, based on his previous statements, that Kasich’s school proposals won’t provide a rush of state money to districts, but will ...
Southwest Ohio has changing role in election
Southwest Ohio has long been painted politically red thanks to its mix of suburban metropolitan areas in Dayton and Cincinnati, rock-ribbed Republicans in the rural areas outside both cities and and a traditionally conservative Cincinnati. But the region is changing. Montgomery County, which gave Sen. John Kerry a slight 4,600-vote ...
College education costs becoming political issue
Young Americans suffer a worse than average unemployment rate and surmounting college loan debt, putting them at the center of the presidential debate over the economy and debt crisis. President Barack Obama made education the main focus of a speech near Columbus on Tuesday at Capital University and Republican presidential ...
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