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HEADLINES: The state's Republican auditor has sided against her party's 2006 nominee for governor in a battle over bonuses he paid upon leaving office. Mary Taylor says the $80,000 in payments authorized by ex-Secretary of State Ken Blackwell were illegal based on an attorney general's opinion issued last year that said he did not have the authority to award them. Nearly one in ten Ohioans are now receiving food stamps, and as many as a half a million people may be eligible but aren't collecting that assistance. The state's job and family services department says caseloads have almost doubled since 2001, and now 1.1 million Ohioans get food stamps. The agency blames low wages, unemployment and the rising cost of food, fuel and other necessities. Speaking of joblessness, unemployment was at double-digit levels last month in three southern Ohio counties. Ohio's top elections chief says she doubts voters who switched parties in the state's presidential primary would face prosecution. Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says she doesn't favor charges against the 17,100 Cuyahoga County Republicans who switched parties to vote in the Democratic primary. Meanwhile, the issue of whether to scrap Ohio's electronic voting machines and go to paper ballots is back in Brunner's hands. House Speaker Jon Husted told the Columbus Dispatch that lawmakers shouldn't authorize money to replace those machines unless Brunner decertifies them, and if she doesn't decertify them, then there's no reason to spend millions to replace them.
SEGMENT 1: The governor's energy adviser has said because of the implications in the energy bill, in many ways it's more important than the budget. And yet the measure hasn't moved for more than three months, after sailing through the Senate unanimously last year. We pick up our second half of a conversation on the energy bill with Kevin Schmidt with the Ohio Manufacturers Association, which backs a move toward re-regulation...Howard Petricoff with the Alliance for Real Energy Options, which says the free market is the way to go...and Jack Shaner with the Ohio Environmental Council, which says the energy bill promises consumer savings, but has also said if there are no early year alternative energy benchmarks, there will be no new green-collar jobs.
SEGMENT 2: Ohio households make up 40% of the utilities' revenue. The state's chief consumer watchdog, Ohio Consumers' Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander, outlines her concerns about the bill.
SEGMENT 1: The governor's energy adviser has said because of the implications in the energy bill, in many ways it's more important than the budget. And yet the measure hasn't moved for more than three months, after sailing through the Senate unanimously last year. We pick up our second half of a conversation on the energy bill with Kevin Schmidt with the Ohio Manufacturers Association, which backs a move toward re-regulation...Howard Petricoff with the Alliance for Real Energy Options, which says the free market is the way to go...and Jack Shaner with the Ohio Environmental Council, which says the energy bill promises consumer savings, but has also said if there are no early year alternative energy benchmarks, there will be no new green-collar jobs.
SEGMENT 2: Ohio households make up 40% of the utilities' revenue. The state's chief consumer watchdog, Ohio Consumers' Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander, outlines her concerns about the bill.
March 28, 2008