A few shoals where Ohio’s effort to attract coastal transplants may run aground: Thomas Suddes
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
A billboard in Boston that s part of the Ohio Is for Leaders ad campaign from JobsOhio.
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Trouble is, Ohio’s leaders have some explaining to do:
Such as – why Ohio incomes, on a per-capita basis, lag the nation’s.
Such as – why, in an America made digital-first by COVID-19, Ohio continues to futz around about statewide broadband access. Talk, talk, talk: That’s Ohio’s broadband “strategy.”
Such as – why Ohio’s purportedly liberal Democratic Party has yet to elect a Black Ohioan to a statewide executive elected office. (Democrats did nominate and help elect Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart, a Greater Cleveland Democrat.)
Legislation to end the death penalty in Ohio gains bipartisan support: Capitol Letter
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New day for an old proposal: An effort to end the death penalty in Ohio now has support from a group of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who believe they have the votes to make it happen, Jeremy Pelzer reports. But Republican House and Senate leaders would have to let such a bill get to the floor, and that could prove a challenge, given that Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker Bob Cupp are both death penalty supporters. But both said they are open to a legislative discussion of the issue.
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