DeWine praises Ohio budget bill
By Andrew J. Tobias - cleveland.com
Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, along with Republican state Rep. Mark Fraizer of Newark, left, and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, right.
COLUMBUS While declining to get into specifics, Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday he expects to sign the state budget on time and is generally happy with the two-year, $74 billion spending bill state lawmakers approved the day before.
“It’s a very good budget. It’s a budget that invests in our kids, it’s a budget that invests in our future. And we’ll have more to say about it tomorrow,” DeWine said at the Statehouse Tuesday following a ceremony in which he signed a bill spending federal relief money to settle the debt for the state’s unemployment fund.
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Top Ohio judicial candidates would have their party ID listed on ballots, under Senate GOP budget proposal Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio Republican lawmakers are again trying to require Ohio ballots to list the partisan affiliation of candidates for Ohio Supreme Court and state appeals court this time, through the state budget.
Right now, judicial candidates run in party primaries, but in the general election their names appear on the ballot with no indication of whether they are a Republican, Democrat or independent. Ohio is the only state to have such a system.
Last week, Senate Republicans made a long list of changes to the state’s two-year budget bill that included listing party affiliations for candidates for state Supreme Court and Ohio’s 12 appellate districts. Candidates for common pleas court and municipal court would continue to run without a party ID.
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While there’s no one right way to launch such an effort, they can take some tips from leaders in the region who have made diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives their professional forte.
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