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The State of Ohio - Governor's Budget Vetoes; Ohio's Unemployment Rate; Regionalism
HEADLINES: For the second time in a month, the governor has shot down the legislature's proposal to go to the state's rainy day fund for needed money.
ROUNDTABLE SEGMENT 1: Ohio's unemployment rate soared from 5.6% in April to 6.3% for May. And that doesn't include the thousands who stand to lose their jobs at DHL near Wilmington and at the state's various General Motors plants. So the news that the state's unemployment benefits fund is going broke couldn't come at a worse time. Here to discuss the issue and talk about what needs to be done are two people with organizations that are normally at odds. Andy Doerhel is with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. And Bill Burga is with the Ohio AFL-CIO.
ROUNDTABLE SEGMENT 2: Last week we started a conversation about regionalism with William Currin, the mayor of Hudson and the chairman of the Northeast Ohio Mayors and City Managers Association, appearing through the facilities of WNEO in Kent; John Mahoney, the deputy director of the Ohio Municipal League; and Professor John Powell is the executive director of the Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Here's the second part of our discussion, in which I asked Professor Powell about how and where regionalism works - and if and where it doesn't.
ROUNDTABLE SEGMENT 1: Ohio's unemployment rate soared from 5.6% in April to 6.3% for May. And that doesn't include the thousands who stand to lose their jobs at DHL near Wilmington and at the state's various General Motors plants. So the news that the state's unemployment benefits fund is going broke couldn't come at a worse time. Here to discuss the issue and talk about what needs to be done are two people with organizations that are normally at odds. Andy Doerhel is with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. And Bill Burga is with the Ohio AFL-CIO.
ROUNDTABLE SEGMENT 2: Last week we started a conversation about regionalism with William Currin, the mayor of Hudson and the chairman of the Northeast Ohio Mayors and City Managers Association, appearing through the facilities of WNEO in Kent; John Mahoney, the deputy director of the Ohio Municipal League; and Professor John Powell is the executive director of the Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Here's the second part of our discussion, in which I asked Professor Powell about how and where regionalism works - and if and where it doesn't.
June 27, 2008