U.S. Census Bureau agrees to settlement providing Ohio’s population data by Aug. 16, ahead of redistricting deadlines Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio The U.S. Census Bureau has agreed with Attorney General Dave Yost to provide raw population data to state officials by Aug. 16, giving state leaders time to meet initial September deadlines for drawing new political districts.
However, it remains to be seen whether, even with the announcement, state leaders will have enough time to work out 10-year-long redistricting agreements particularly regarding legislative districts.
The settlement agreement, announced by Yost’s office on Tuesday, follows an appeals court ruling last week directing a lower court to work “expediently” to get the census to deliver Ohio’s data in a “legacy format” by Aug. 16. That means the data will come in a raw form, without the data tables and other formats the census usually prepares for states to make the numbers
Ohio can ask for census data by mid-August for redistricting, appeals court rules
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven t yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio A federal appeals court has sided with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in his lawsuit attempting to force the U.S. Census Bureau to provide detailed population data needed to meet the state’s deadlines for drawing new political districts.
Judge says Ohio can challenge tax-cut ban in Biden stimulus package, but denies injunction
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018 file photo, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks at the Ohio Republican Party event, in Columbus, Ohio. A federal judge has ruled that Yost has a substantial likelihood of successfully challenging a provision of the latest coronavirus stimulus package preventing the funds from being used to pay for state tax cuts. However, the judge denied Yost s request for a preliminary injunction blocking the provision. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio A federal judge has held that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost can move forward with a lawsuit challenging Congress’ stipulation that the latest round of coronavirus funding can’t be used, directly or indirectly, to offset state tax cuts.
Ohio House committee approves budget plan: Capitol Letter
Updated 8:00 AM;
Today 8:00 AM
The Ohio House is expected to vote on the state budget today, following a committee vote on Tuesday. (Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com)
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Rotunda Rumblings
Final touches: The House Finance Committee voted 24-9, with two Democrats joining Republicans in voting ‘yes’, to refer House Bill 110, the state budget bill, to the floor for a full vote. As Andrew Tobias reports, the last-minute changes included boosting education funding in the bill by $115 million over two years to ensure poorer districts didn’t lose money in the short term as the bill’s school-funding overhaul is phased in. The House is expected to approve the budget bill as soon as today.
Ohio’s death-penalty system is paralyzed, and state leaders are in no hurry to address it
Updated 6:00 AM;
Today 6:00 AM
In this Nov. 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio.AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio’s death-penalty system is broken, immobilized by state officials’ years-long fruitless struggle to find lethal-injection drugs.
Yet, the state’s governor and lawmakers have so far taken no meaningful steps toward permanently addressing the major problems with the state’s death penalty. Instead, the leaders appear to be content to have capital punishment remain in a sort of legal purgatory, leaving more than 130 Death Row inmates, as well as their victims’ loved ones, in limbo about what the future will hold for Ohio’s death penalty.