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A southwest Ohio lawmaker wants to ensure the integrity of partisan primary elections by limiting participation in the candidate-selection process to party-affiliated voters who pick from their party’s slate of contenders.  Middletown Rep. Thomas Hall told members of the Government Oversight Committee in the Ohio House of Representatives that he worked closely with a team [...]
COLUMBUS — Advocacy groups fighting Ohio’s political maps in court formally objected last week to the latest round of Statehouse districts, which they see as once again unfairly drawn to favor Republicans. Proposed legislative districts created by the GOP-led Ohio Redistricting Commission were previously declared unconstitutional five times. The commission passed the latest Ohio Senate [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy spent years raising mountains of Republican campaign cash, flying around the country to recruit top candidates in key districts and building political relationships as he worked his way toward becoming speaker of the House. Now that he's been ousted from the post after less than nine months, some in the [...]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration last week announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction, marking the administration's first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration took aim this week at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug. Officials described the actions, which include charges against eight Chinese companies accused of advertising, manufacturing and distributing [...]
A state senator has proposed a bill to make the process of administering childhood vaccinations as convenient as a trip to the local pharmacy. Sen. Mark Romanchuk, of Ontario, explained to senators serving on the Health Committee that the legislation borrows from some of the processes adopted during the pandemic. “Pharmacies were on the front [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — At least part of an overhaul of the state’s K-12 education system will take effect as planned, despite a court order earlier this week delaying the changes after a lawsuit claimed they violate the constitution, according to Gov. Mike DeWine. The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce will replace the Ohio Department [...]
COLUMBUS — A proposed amendment that would remake Ohio's troubled political mapmaking system, which repeatedly failed last year to produce maps that could pass constitutional muster, this week edged closer to the 2024 ballot. Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost's certification of summary petition language for the constitutional amendment submitted by the group Citizens Not [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll. Overall, 47 percent of adults say liberals have "a lot" of freedom to express their [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration has pledged more than $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe and Spokane Tribe of Indians recently signed the [...]