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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Senate passed a two-year, $74.5 billion state operating budget bill Wednesday afternoon, with 5% income tax cuts and an overhaul to education spending. House Bill 110 passed 25 to 8, along partisan lines. The next step is for the bill to return to the House for a vote on whether to agree with the changes the Senate made to the bill - expected Thursday afternoon. The . ....
On the streets of Akron and most large American cities, gun violence has risen sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic began, leaving a long line of grieving families. In Congress and the Ohio Statehouse, proposals to control guns with reasonable reforms almost always die themselves. Instead, Ohioans are now allowed to “Stand Your Ground.” The result is a bloody gridlock, with the Second Amendment pitted against the rights of those who want to live in peace. Akron City Council and Mayor Dan Horrigan want to change that conversation by boldly attacking gun violence with $20 million of $153 million in federal COVID recovery funds. Horrigan’s early plans call for employment programs and training, support of ongoing initiatives and more recreational opportunities. ....
Editorial: H2Ohio needs assured funding to protect Ohio’s precious water resources The H2Ohio fund created by Gov. Mike DeWine and legislators in 2019 is a critical long-term work in progress. It aims, most prominently, at reducing, and eventually ending, dangerous toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie by creating more local accountability on phosphorus-reduction plans, more farmer buy-in, improved monitoring of streams and rivers, widened use of agricultural best practices and the creation of new wetlands and other buffers. But that’s far from H2Ohio’s totality. The program also seeks to ensure that both Ohioans and the state’s priceless freshwater resources are protected amid soaring water infrastructure costs, as price tags climb for lead service-line replacements, mandated septic-system upgrades, and modernized drinking-water and wastewater treatment plants. ....
Editorial Roundup: Ohio The Associated Press Editorial: H2Ohio needs assured funding to protect Ohio’s precious water resources The H2Ohio fund created by Gov. Mike DeWine and legislators in 2019 is a critical long-term work in progress. It aims, most prominently, at reducing, and eventually ending, dangerous toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie by creating more local accountability on phosphorus-reduction plans, more farmer buy-in, improved monitoring of streams and rivers, widened use of agricultural best practices and the creation of new wetlands and other buffers. But that’s far from H2Ohio’s totality. The program also seeks to ensure that both Ohioans and the state’s priceless freshwater resources are protected amid soaring water infrastructure costs, as price tags climb for lead service-line replacements, mandated septic-system upgrades, and modernized drinking-water and wastewater treatment plants. ....
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