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Ohio is on pace to a record setting year for executions. 48 year old Michael Beuke died by lethal injection on Thursday. There are six more executions are set for 2010, so this year's execution tally could beat the previous record of seven set in 2004.
The Ohio House has passed new restrictions on fees charged by payday lenders, whose interest rates were capped by a law voters approved in 2008. And backers of an Ohio crackdown on illegal immigration have changed their plans to put a constitutional amendment before voters this fall.
The primary is just over, but the major parties aren't wasting any time in the two marquee races in Ohio. A controversial internet ad was is going on in the US Senate race.
And in the race for governor, incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland made what he called a major campaign speech this week, hoping to define his largely unknown opponent before John Kasich can define himself to voters. But a spokesperson for the former congressman says while this strategy was no surprise, the early timing of it right after the primary is.
Primary night didn't bring in the best results for the nascent Tea Party in Ohio, and the votes in some races have opponents of this conservative movement are saying it's already dying out. But Tea Party activists say anyone who counts them out does so at their peril. Chris Littleton is the president of the state's largest Tea Party group, the Ohio Liberty Council, and he appears through the facilities of CET in Cincinnati.
The state is putting the final touches on its second application for federal funds for education reform, after losing out in the first round of funding. Ohio came in 10th out of 16 applicants in the first award of grants from Race To The Top in March, with Delaware and Tennessee winning big - Tennessee got $500 million, and Delaware got $100 million. Ohio is hoping for as much as 400 million dollars in this round, but with the deadline of June 1 looming, only about a quarter of Ohio's more than 600 school districts and a third of charter schools have signed on to the Race To The Top agreements. State school superintendent Deborah Delisle talks about what she learned from the first round and how she hopes the state can improve.
The Ohio House has passed new restrictions on fees charged by payday lenders, whose interest rates were capped by a law voters approved in 2008. And backers of an Ohio crackdown on illegal immigration have changed their plans to put a constitutional amendment before voters this fall.
The primary is just over, but the major parties aren't wasting any time in the two marquee races in Ohio. A controversial internet ad was is going on in the US Senate race.
And in the race for governor, incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland made what he called a major campaign speech this week, hoping to define his largely unknown opponent before John Kasich can define himself to voters. But a spokesperson for the former congressman says while this strategy was no surprise, the early timing of it right after the primary is.
Primary night didn't bring in the best results for the nascent Tea Party in Ohio, and the votes in some races have opponents of this conservative movement are saying it's already dying out. But Tea Party activists say anyone who counts them out does so at their peril. Chris Littleton is the president of the state's largest Tea Party group, the Ohio Liberty Council, and he appears through the facilities of CET in Cincinnati.
The state is putting the final touches on its second application for federal funds for education reform, after losing out in the first round of funding. Ohio came in 10th out of 16 applicants in the first award of grants from Race To The Top in March, with Delaware and Tennessee winning big - Tennessee got $500 million, and Delaware got $100 million. Ohio is hoping for as much as 400 million dollars in this round, but with the deadline of June 1 looming, only about a quarter of Ohio's more than 600 school districts and a third of charter schools have signed on to the Race To The Top agreements. State school superintendent Deborah Delisle talks about what she learned from the first round and how she hopes the state can improve.
May 14, 2010