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The two-week average of coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in Ohio is now at just over 155, that s down from over 185 just a week ago. Just under 40% of the state s total population has received at least the first dose of the vaccine.
Here are your morning headlines for Friday, April 30:
Ohio’s COVID case rate dips
Akron firefighter disciplined for spraying activist with hose
New and continued jobless claims drop
8 indicted in alcohol-related death after fraternity party
Lawmakers propose eliminating E-Check
Tree-planting at Chillicothe state park will be a COVID-19 memorial
Browns select Northwestern CB Greg Newsome in first round
Kings of Leon tour Rock Hall, NFT exhibit before draft gig
Thomas Suddes: Ohio House passes 2,000 page monster containing fishy gem
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Sizing up the (sizable) field for Portman s Senate seat: Thomas Suddes
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Ohio Senate passes bill giving lawmakers oversight, veto power over health orders Anna Staver, The Columbus Dispatch © Joshua A. Bickel/Columbus Dispatch Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, right, listens as Dr. Mark Herbert, an infectious disease specialist with Mount Carmel, addresses local media regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and recent surge in cases in Ohio on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 at Lane Aviation in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine visited Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati during the day to speak about the coronavirus and urged Ohioans to take precautions to mitigate the spread of the virus.
Ohio s Republican senators all voted for a bill giving lawmakers the power to change or revoke public health orders and state of emergency declarations Wednesday afternoon.
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There seems to be an assumption out in Punditry Land that this will be a safe seat for the GOP in 2022 – an open seat because of the somewhat dubious belief that Ohio has turned red. Red now; red forever.
Assumptions, though, are dangerous things in politics. Events intervene. Stuff happens. What looks like a sure thing now may not be so certain in 2022.
Still, there s no doubt that Republicans should be optimistic.
Last November, Donald Trump won Ohio by eight percentage points – the first time since 1960 that Ohio did not go to the winner of the presidential election.
The Ohio GOP has skunked the Democrats in non-judicial statewide contests for over a decade, with the lone exception being the senior senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown.