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Most of this week was dominated by the confirmation hearing for Cathy Collins-Taylor, who was rejected by a key Senate committee to keep her job as Public Safety director. It was a scattered and protracted two day affair, in which the focus kept flipping from a legislative committee hearing to a confirmation hearing to an investigation - all with a strong political beat behind it. Committee chair Sen. Tim Grendell (R-Chesterland) and Democratic Sens. Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland) and Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) heard from fellow Sen. David Goodman (R-Bexley), state homeland security deputy director Earl Mack and former prisons director Terry Collins They also heard from public safety director Cathy Collins-Taylor and Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. David Dicken, who were blasted in the Inspector General's report on an aborted sting at the Governor's Residence in January. Though the commitee rejected Collins-Taylor's confirmation, it will still be up to the full Senate to vote.
Before her confirmation hearing, Public Safety Director Cathy Collins Taylor sat down for a one-on-one interview about the sting, the IG's report and the confirmation hearings, and explained her side of the story and why she's angry.
Ohio's unemployment rate is at 10.9% for April - 652,000 Ohioans are out of work. But the fund that pays them jobless benefits is arguably in as much trouble as many of them are. The Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund went broke in January, and to keep sending out checks, the state will likely have borrowed $3 billion dollars by the end of the year. Andy Doerhel of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce co-chairs the advisory commission that met this week to try to develop a solution.
Before her confirmation hearing, Public Safety Director Cathy Collins Taylor sat down for a one-on-one interview about the sting, the IG's report and the confirmation hearings, and explained her side of the story and why she's angry.
Ohio's unemployment rate is at 10.9% for April - 652,000 Ohioans are out of work. But the fund that pays them jobless benefits is arguably in as much trouble as many of them are. The Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund went broke in January, and to keep sending out checks, the state will likely have borrowed $3 billion dollars by the end of the year. Andy Doerhel of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce co-chairs the advisory commission that met this week to try to develop a solution.
May 21, 2010