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It's no surprise to anyone who's been watching state politics in the last few years that former central Ohio congressman John Kasich wants to be governor. This week, he made it official. It could be said that the budget is halfway done - the Democrat-dominated House passed their budget in April, and the Republican-controlled Senate okayed their spending plan this week. But lawmakers will soon have to sit down and reconcile their spending plans, and the vote in the Senate shows there's a lot of work ahead to reach that compromise. Among those who spoke about the budget were Senators John Carey (R-Wellston), Keith Faber (R-Celina), Nina Turner (D-Cleveland), Ray Miller (D-Columbus), Jon Husted (R-Kettering), and Dale Miller (D-Cleveland).
Last week experts from the right and the left were here to talk about how they see the budget, and I asked David Hansen from the Buckeye Institute and Brian Rothenberg from Progress Ohio about what they think can be done to balance it in 2010 and 2011 but beyond that.
Ohio's first execution of the year went forward this week, this time with a slight change in the procedure. 39 year old Daniel Wilson of Lorain was put to death at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville for the murder of 24 year old Carol Lutz in 1991. Two reporters who've seen the execution process in Ohio firsthand and researched it extensively talk about it. Alan Johnson is a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch and estimates he's been a media witness for at least six executions. Andrew Welsh Huggins is a reporter for the Associated Press and has written a new book called "No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States".
Last week experts from the right and the left were here to talk about how they see the budget, and I asked David Hansen from the Buckeye Institute and Brian Rothenberg from Progress Ohio about what they think can be done to balance it in 2010 and 2011 but beyond that.
Ohio's first execution of the year went forward this week, this time with a slight change in the procedure. 39 year old Daniel Wilson of Lorain was put to death at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville for the murder of 24 year old Carol Lutz in 1991. Two reporters who've seen the execution process in Ohio firsthand and researched it extensively talk about it. Alan Johnson is a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch and estimates he's been a media witness for at least six executions. Andrew Welsh Huggins is a reporter for the Associated Press and has written a new book called "No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States".
June 5, 2009