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A few moderate Ohio senators trying to craft a compromise to fix Ohio's budget gap are being thwarted by two opposing forces: the majority of Republican senators who adamantly oppose any portion of Gov. Ted Strickland's tax cut delay, and the Democratic governor's outright rejection of the compromise.
Ohio lawmakers were deadlocked once again on how to fix Ohio's budget, as a Senate Republican proposal blending most of Gov. Ted Strickland's tax cut delay with a slew of other funding sources met with swift Democratic opposition.
After Richard Handy of Fairfield received an e-mail from a conservative group calling Gov. Ted Strickland's proposed delay of Ohio's income tax cuts a "retroactive tax increase," Handy fired off a few passionate words to some state senators.
In videotaped comments, a state agency director appears to back off new standards Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's administration has been pushing that would require prevailing union wages to be paid on more state construction projects.
Ohio is considering injecting lethal drugs into inmates' bone marrow or muscles as an alternative to — or a backup for — the traditional intravenous execution procedure, a prisons department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Some events leading to Gov. Ted Strickland's decision to stop the Tuesday execution of Romell Broom because of difficulties finding a usable vein:
A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted an unprecedented second attempt at lethal injection of an inmate who said his execution attempt this week was marred by painful needle sticks into his bone and muscles.
An investigation by Florida authorities has found that there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she says she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam.
The state on Tuesday submitted an affidavit it says indicates gambling giant Penn National Gaming is underwriting an effort to overturn racetrack slots legalized by lawmakers and Gov. Ted Strickland in July.
Ohio should have a state board to set guidelines for livestock care, Gov. Ted Strickland said Monday, adding to the debate between farm interests and the nation's biggest animal welfare organization.
Gov. Ted Strickland on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who killed his mother in a cocaine-induced rage and whose upcoming execution was opposed by his entire family, including his mother's siblings.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has ordered a special election Nov. 18 to replace the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
A baby's cries led rescuers to the 3-month-old in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said Friday.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland received a standing ovation Saturday night when he predicted the state will again tip the race for the White House — this time, delivering it to Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama.
Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has tapped the dean of the Ohio State University law school to serve temporarily as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal forced out the previous attorney general.
As a sex scandal involving Ohio's attorney general becomes the butt of national jokes, Democratic congressional candidates who will face the state's voters this fall are scrambling to distance themselves from him.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is giving a food bank $10,000 in campaign cash he got from former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Gov. Ted Strickland toured flooded towns across northwest Ohio on Friday, after three days of heavy rains and melting snow drove most of the region's rivers over their banks.
Death row inmate John Spirko wanted a pardon or the chance to leave prison and prove his innocence. He got neither, though he did escape execution.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton Friday, calling the New York senator "the strongest candidate our party can bring forth" and contending his state will be crucial in the 2008 election.
A missing computer backup tape containing personal information on state employees also holds the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers, Gov. Ted Strickland said.
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland is toughening the ethics controls he established in the wake of the wide-ranging scandal overseen by his Republican predecessor.
Gov. Ted Strickland told all state agencies Tuesday to stop ordering coffee, lunch and other meals while his office reviews nearly $4 million in food-related expenses in the past two years.
Gov. Ted Strickland said he would welcome Iraqi refugees to Ohio, clarifying his comments last week were meant to express frustration with President Bush instead of the people displaced by the war.
Ohio's Strickland Looking Vulnerable in 2010 Governor's RaceOhio's Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland looks very vulnerable to a 2010 challenge from former Republican Rep. John Kasich, with Strickland holding only a 44 percent to 42 percent lead with 14 percent undecided in a Public Policy Polling survey conducted June 17-19.
Election night may be a mess in OhioIt's Nov. 5, the day after the grueling, bitterly fought presidential election has ended and all the ballots have been cast.
Jim Webb: "Under No Circumstances" Will I Consider V.P. RoleVice presidential searches are always punctuated by potential candidates making stern statements about their lack of interest in the job, or their sense of obligation to their local constituencies. But on Monday, Sen.
Ted Strickland rules himself out as an Obama veep pick Almost always, such comments are accepted for what they are: required social niceties from ambitious politicians who are quietly angling for the nod and, understandably, would accept the invite in an instant. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, however, is breaking the rules.
Change in tone for Clinton; supporting Obama, "The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise."Clinton, in an e-mail to supporters, said she "will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise."
Ohio attorney general admits to affair with employee - Yahoo! NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's attorney general admitted an extramarital affair with an employee Friday, soon after three of his aides were fired or forced out after an investigation found evidence of sexual harassment and other misconduct. ADVERTISEMENT
Report: Ohio DNA program flawed"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's DNA testing program for inmates seeking to prove their innocence is deeply flawed, with police routinely discarding evidence after trials and court-ordered tests never getting done, a newspaper reported Sunday.
toledoblade.com -- Ohio Congressman Paul Gillmor found dead in his apartment, GOP officials sayOhio Rep. Paul Gillmor, a Republican whose political career covered four decades, has died, party officials said Wednesday.
Governor Establishes Broadband Ohio Network To Expand High Speed Internet Access in OhioColumbus, Ohio – In order to coordinate and expand access to the state's broadband data network, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has signed an executive order establishing the Ohio Broadband Council and the Broadband Ohio Network.
toledoblade.com -- It will take more than an ark to save us nowSCIENTISTS tell us that the planet is going to be flooded when the ice caps melt from rising global temperatures and a whole host of other not-so-pleasant changes. The first time humans were warned about a big flood, the message came directly from God, and Noah listened, even th …
Ohio bumps data theft estimate to 1 million The personal data of roughly 1 million Ohioans was lost when a state data [device] was stolen last month.
Ohio Republicans Short on Money?When polls showed Franklin County Commissioner Dewey Stokes running behind in the closing days of his 2002 re-election contest, fellow Republicans came to his aid.
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