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Commissioners support Manchester’s push for prevailing wage reform
Manchester
SIDNEY – State Rep. Susan Manchester earned support from the Shelby County commissioners Tuesday morning for her effort for prevailing wage reform in Ohio but received pushback on the override of Gov. Mike DeWine’s Senate Bill 22 veto.
The Republican from Waynesfield visited with the commissioners and Angela Hamberg, executive director of the Shelby County Regional Planning Commission, to discuss issues being debated in Columbus. One of her proposed bills would allow government entities to opt out of prevailing wage requirements for some public projects.
“What I love about the bill is it is permissive,” Manchester said. “I am the first one to say there are a lot of counties in this state that probably want to use prevailing wage for whatever reason. You know, they have that kind of established already. But my counties – Mercer, Auglaize, Shelby, Darke – I know, just talking to local ele
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Husted says the words were aimed at the Chinese government’s failure to come clean on what it knows on the origins of COVID-19, and were not aimed at those of Chinese or Asian descent. He added in lengthy public comments Thursday that no harm was meant, that he has many Asian American friends and that the word Wuhan is “inseparable” from the back story of the pandemic referring to a city, not an ethnicity.
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Husted knows that using weaponized expressions like “China virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Kung flu” is wrong. That it is dangerous. That it is something for which he should apologize.
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Apr. 1 COLUMBUS The controversial $1 billion bailout of two nuclear power plants that came to epitomize the idea of legislation being for sale in Ohio is no more.
Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed House Bill 128 into law, effectively repealing portions of House Bill 6 enacted in 2019 that would have surcharged electricity customers across the state to subsidize the Lake Erie plants and lock in high future profits for Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.
The law was the end product of an alleged $61 million bribery scheme that has led to federal racketeering charges against multiple players, including former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R., Glenford).