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The looming budget hole that was discovered after income tax revenues came in lower than hoped is a little smaller thanks to some cutbacks and delayed debt payments. The governor isn't letting concerns about his education plan deter him. In fact, after holding press conferences and public meetings, he's decided to take his message to a place where he can speak without filters - the internet. The first video was posted a day before thousands of supporters of charter schools descended on the Statehouse to protest cuts in funding. Hamilton County commissioner and former Cincinnati councilman David Pepper will challenge Republican auditor Mary Taylor for state auditor in 2010. A former top aide to ex-attorney general Marc Dann is facing a 10-count indictment - unveiled on the one-year anniversary of Dann's resignation. But the charges against Anthony Gutierrez appear largely unrelated to complaints he had sexually harassed two office employees while serving as Dann's head of general services.
The budget that passed the Democrat-controlled House has been rounded praised and criticized for its spending on safety net programs and its overhaul of educational curriculum and school funding. But one item that was in the governor's spending plan that didn't make the final cut was reform of sentencing for the state's prison system, which is already dangerously overcrowded. Prisons director Terry Collins says he was disappointed, and State Sen. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) is also upset, saying he took a risk in backing up the proposal with a similiar sentencing reform bill in the Senate. But neither money nor politics were the reason why sentencing reform didn't end up in the House version of the budget, according to Rep. John Carney (D-Columbus). Even the governor himself, who had proposed this in his initial spending plan, admits he's not happy it was stripped out of the House budget, but appears not to be panicked.
The budget has passed the House, carrying $622 million more than the governor's initial spending plan did. And as we watch the Senate's committee hearings on the budget and wait to find out what it will look like coming from that chamber, there are plenty of other things going on to talk about with Bill Cohen and Jo Ingles, the Statehouse News Bureau for Ohio Public Radio and Television.
The budget that passed the Democrat-controlled House has been rounded praised and criticized for its spending on safety net programs and its overhaul of educational curriculum and school funding. But one item that was in the governor's spending plan that didn't make the final cut was reform of sentencing for the state's prison system, which is already dangerously overcrowded. Prisons director Terry Collins says he was disappointed, and State Sen. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) is also upset, saying he took a risk in backing up the proposal with a similiar sentencing reform bill in the Senate. But neither money nor politics were the reason why sentencing reform didn't end up in the House version of the budget, according to Rep. John Carney (D-Columbus). Even the governor himself, who had proposed this in his initial spending plan, admits he's not happy it was stripped out of the House budget, but appears not to be panicked.
The budget has passed the House, carrying $622 million more than the governor's initial spending plan did. And as we watch the Senate's committee hearings on the budget and wait to find out what it will look like coming from that chamber, there are plenty of other things going on to talk about with Bill Cohen and Jo Ingles, the Statehouse News Bureau for Ohio Public Radio and Television.
May 15, 2009