December 11, 2018
The Columbus Dispatch, Editorial, December 10, 2018- If only Ohio lawmakers were as interested in addressing the state’s many challenges as they are in interfering with local communities’ efforts to solve their own problems, the Statehouse might not be the bastion of backwardness it has become under all-Republican rule. Now …
December 10, 2018
The State, Julie Carr Smyth, December 8, 2018- A brewing standoff between legislative Republicans in Ohio and their same-party governor over some big-ticket policy issues was averted — perhaps permanently — during a whirlwind week at the Statehouse. Proposals restricting early abortions and a gun owner’s “duty to retreat” that …
September 27, 2018
WKBN News, Amanda Smith, September 25, 2018- Local leaders are still lobbying the state to have more control over fracking brine disposal wells. Hubbard township officials are bitterly opposed to a plan to bring a waste brine disposal well to the township. Brine from Pennsylvania operations would be transported to an area …
August 15, 2018
Columbus Dispatch, Rick Rouan, August 14, 2018- Both sides of the fight to regulate guns in Columbus have appealed a Franklin County Common Pleas judge’s split ruling on two ordinances the city passed in May. Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein on Friday appealed Judge David E. Cain’s ruling that the …
July 16, 2018
Guns.com, Chris Eger, July 16, 2018- A Ohio judge last week rejected a prohibition adopted by the city of Columbus on bump fire stocks, hitting city officials with a permanent injunction against enforcing the ordinance. Judge David Cain, writing for the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, found that the city’s ban did …