Gov. DeWine announces formation of innovation district that will help drive job creation in Ohio FILE - Columbus, Ohio skyline (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) (Source: AP) By Chris Anderson | February 17, 2021 at 9:53 AM EST - Updated February 17 at 11:26 AM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was joined by several elected officials and organization leaders to discuss a new innovation district that could drive job creation across the state.
The Columbus Innovation District collaboration between the Ohio State University, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and JobsOhio will potentially bring more jobs to the state, according to the governor.
Approximately $1 billion will be invested in developing new gene and cell therapy advancements, making it a leader in STEM research.
The cost of insulin has been kept artificially high for millions of Americans because drug manufacturers and middlemen work together to maximize their profits, a new bipartisan investigation shows.
This maneuvering around the growing price tag for medicine needed by diabetics to combat America s No. 7 killer represents a microcosm of the reasons prescription drugs cost so much in the U.S.
It also demonstrates one of the consequences of growing consolidation within American health care, a trend The Dispatch is investigating.
“Insulin is Exhibit A of why America’s drug pricing system is broken from top to bottom, said U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden in a statement to The Dispatch/USA TODAY Network. Our bipartisan report reveals how large corporations benefit from high prices while consumers and taxpayers foot the bill.”
Fraud may be rampant among Ohio pandemic unemployment claims: Capitol Letter
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services homepage has a place for people to report fraudulent unemployment claims under their names. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.)
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False claims: More than half of Ohio’s 1.4 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims (which total $7.8 billion in payments) have been flagged for fraud, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said Thursday. As Jeremy Pelzer explains, one likely reason is that, until recently, PUA claims required far less documentation than filings for traditional unemployment benefits.
The last time a Democratic president was sworn in for his first term, many of Barack Obama s supporters in Stark County excitingly sought tickets to the 2009 inauguration.
Canton Councilwoman Chris Smith, D-4, then-Stark NAACP President Moniquec Connor, then-Canton Council President Allen Schulman, Democratic campaign consultant Deametrious St. John and others were able to snag tickets.
Others took charter buses to the nation s capital, staked out spots on the grassy National Mall to witness history of the first African-American president taking the oath of office.
The inauguration of Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who ll be the first black vice president, is vastly different with top Democrats in Stark County saying they don t know anyone who s going or seeking to go.
Joe Biden is about to floor it to a green future - can he meet his goal?
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden announces his climate and energy team nominees and appointees at The Queen Theater in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP
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By Vince Bielski | RealClearInvestigations
Joe Biden needs to put the pedal to the metal as he races toward his goal of ridding America’s energy sources of carbon emissions by 2035. But the president-elect’s headlong rush toward a green future may be slowed by a snarl of political speed limits in the states.