May 24, 2016
Troy Daily News May 23, 2016 by Steve Huffman After hearing from hundreds of witnesses and nearly 25 hours of testimony as part of the Medical Marijuana Task Force, I have sponsored legislation that would legalize medical marijuana in Ohio. As a practicing physician for more than 20 years, I believe …
April 4, 2016
Governing March 25, 2016 By Alan Greenblatt St. Louis can’t get a break from its own state. Last year, Missouri enacted a law preventing St. Louis and other cities from setting their own minimum-wage rates and from banning plastic grocery bags. This year, state lawmakers have spent a considerable amount of …
February 4, 2016
The Columbus Dispatch February 3, 2016 Mark L. Winters In his Sunday Dispatch op-ed, columnist Thomas Suddes praised and endorsed Cincinnati Democrat P.G. Sittenfeld’s ambition to restore home rule to localities in Ohio that wish to prevent law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms. Suddes said “Ohio’s constitutional tradition is that voters, …
October 19, 2015
The Athens News October 18, 2015 by David DeWitt Despite an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that kept a local anti-fracking group from putting a countywide community bill of rights/charter proposal to voters this November, the state high court has not yet decided on the constitutionality of those proposals, the keynote speaker …
September 28, 2015
The News-Herald September 24, 2015 By Associated Press The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that an anti-fracking measure in Youngstown must be put back on fall ballots. In a unanimous decision last week, the high court said the Mahoning County Board of Elections lacked the authority not to certify an anti-fracking …