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Ohio will be in an even worse budget hole two years from now than it started out this year, according to a dismal forecast from State Auditor Mary Taylor. The Republican auditor took the unusual step of crunching numbers and making a state budget projection, which she says uses the figures the governor's office is using. The governor responded by calling the criticisms partisan gamesmanship and saying if Ohio didn't take federal stimulus funds, the situation would be worse in the short term.
Democrats in the Ohio House have rewritten Gov. Strickland's school-funding plan to funnel more state money to poor districts and successful charter schools, rewriting the funding formula and extending the phase-in of school reforms to 10 rather than eight years. The Democrats' rewrite came a day after they promised to unveil it, and Republicans seized on that delay and blasted the plan. Republican Rep. Seth Morgan, who sued Gov. Strickland over his education reform proposal, has set up a website where he says he will post whatever evidence he gets from the governor to support his evidence based education reform plan. This week also brought the first deadline by which the candidates running to replace US Senator George Voinovich had to reveal their fundraising totals so far. And speaking of money, protestors came out in about two dozen Ohio cities from Ashtabula to Zanesville just hours before the tax day deadline - to demonstrate against the money paid to local, state and federal governments.
And we have an update to a segment from last week, about passenger train service in Ohio. President Barack Obama is calling for the country to move swiftly to a system of high-speed rail travel. A White House list of possible high-speed rail projects includes a rail corridor that would be centered in Chicago with Ohio stops in Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
A little over three years ago, Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have changed the way the lines for state legislative districts are drawn. But now, there are at least three proposals that would change the redistricting process for state or Congressional districts. Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican of Kettering near Dayton is the author of one of them, which would create a bipartisan seven member apportionment board. Catherine Turcer of Ohio Citizen Action has been working with the League of Women Voters and the Secretary of State on a contest to come up with the best scientific formula for redrawing the lines.
Democrats in the Ohio House have rewritten Gov. Strickland's school-funding plan to funnel more state money to poor districts and successful charter schools, rewriting the funding formula and extending the phase-in of school reforms to 10 rather than eight years. The Democrats' rewrite came a day after they promised to unveil it, and Republicans seized on that delay and blasted the plan. Republican Rep. Seth Morgan, who sued Gov. Strickland over his education reform proposal, has set up a website where he says he will post whatever evidence he gets from the governor to support his evidence based education reform plan. This week also brought the first deadline by which the candidates running to replace US Senator George Voinovich had to reveal their fundraising totals so far. And speaking of money, protestors came out in about two dozen Ohio cities from Ashtabula to Zanesville just hours before the tax day deadline - to demonstrate against the money paid to local, state and federal governments.
And we have an update to a segment from last week, about passenger train service in Ohio. President Barack Obama is calling for the country to move swiftly to a system of high-speed rail travel. A White House list of possible high-speed rail projects includes a rail corridor that would be centered in Chicago with Ohio stops in Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
A little over three years ago, Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have changed the way the lines for state legislative districts are drawn. But now, there are at least three proposals that would change the redistricting process for state or Congressional districts. Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican of Kettering near Dayton is the author of one of them, which would create a bipartisan seven member apportionment board. Catherine Turcer of Ohio Citizen Action has been working with the League of Women Voters and the Secretary of State on a contest to come up with the best scientific formula for redrawing the lines.
April 17, 2009