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HEADLINES: The Ohio killer who's received more reprieves than any other condemned inmate got a sixth one this week. A long-awaited audit reveals few surprises in its conclusions into the investment scandal involving millions of dollars lost at the Bureau of Workers' Compensation. A third member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has resigned, after Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner asked the entire board to step down - the only member remaining is Bob Bennett, who is also the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. The state's jobless numbers are the lowest in more than half a decade - but state officials aren't celebrating an economic boom.
SEGMENT 1: It's been 36 years since a Democratic governor brought a budget before a legislature controlled by Republicans. The budget process is always long, detailed and sometimes tedious, but with the added political pressure it's gotten a bit heated. And the hearings have just started - there are plenty of numbers and issues to go over in the governor's two year, $53 billion budget, which includes cutting vouchers and charter schools, boosting money for public schools and higher education, adding more kids to the Medicaid rolls and expanding a tax cut for elderly and disabled homeowners.
Here to continue our examination of the budget are two members of the House Finance and Appropriations committee, where the budget stops first on its way to the floor. Republican Rep. Kevin Dewine is the House Speaker Pro Tem and a candidate for the newly created position of deputy director of the Ohio Republican Party. And Democratic Rep. Michael Skindell is the ranking minority member of the committee.
SEGMENT 2: Bob Taft came back to the Statehouse this week, to memorialize his place in history as Ohio's 67th governor. The Taft family unveiled the official portrait of the former governor in a ceremony punctuated with standing ovations from some 200 current and former lawmakers, lobbyists, political friends and well-known Republicans. Taft's portrait will hang in the hearing room named for his great-grandfather, former governor, Supreme Court Chief Justice and President William Howard Taft.
CLOSING SEGMENT: Congratulations to the winners of the Governor's Awards for the Arts for this year: Marsha Dobrzynski of Young Audience of Northeast Ohio, James Levin of Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival of Arts and Technology, Dr. Jacquelyn Quay of Hamilton, arts patron James Dicke the second of New Bremen, artist Bebe Miller of Columbus; Dayton Power and Light and Ohio Magazine.
SEGMENT 1: It's been 36 years since a Democratic governor brought a budget before a legislature controlled by Republicans. The budget process is always long, detailed and sometimes tedious, but with the added political pressure it's gotten a bit heated. And the hearings have just started - there are plenty of numbers and issues to go over in the governor's two year, $53 billion budget, which includes cutting vouchers and charter schools, boosting money for public schools and higher education, adding more kids to the Medicaid rolls and expanding a tax cut for elderly and disabled homeowners.
Here to continue our examination of the budget are two members of the House Finance and Appropriations committee, where the budget stops first on its way to the floor. Republican Rep. Kevin Dewine is the House Speaker Pro Tem and a candidate for the newly created position of deputy director of the Ohio Republican Party. And Democratic Rep. Michael Skindell is the ranking minority member of the committee.
SEGMENT 2: Bob Taft came back to the Statehouse this week, to memorialize his place in history as Ohio's 67th governor. The Taft family unveiled the official portrait of the former governor in a ceremony punctuated with standing ovations from some 200 current and former lawmakers, lobbyists, political friends and well-known Republicans. Taft's portrait will hang in the hearing room named for his great-grandfather, former governor, Supreme Court Chief Justice and President William Howard Taft.
CLOSING SEGMENT: Congratulations to the winners of the Governor's Awards for the Arts for this year: Marsha Dobrzynski of Young Audience of Northeast Ohio, James Levin of Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival of Arts and Technology, Dr. Jacquelyn Quay of Hamilton, arts patron James Dicke the second of New Bremen, artist Bebe Miller of Columbus; Dayton Power and Light and Ohio Magazine.
March 30, 2007