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Posted February 13, 2008 in Press Releases
The machinery for aiding displaced workers grinds inefficiently in Ohio The Akron Beacon Journal Ohio's economy is in transition. New technologies are creating new industries and businesses and changing the labor-intensive, heavy industries of the past. The... read more
Posted November 14, 2007 in Press Releases
It's too easy to blame the city's housing collapse on Rust-belt economics. How bad government and greed made it one of the nation's foreclosure capitals.By Les Christie CNNMoney.com CLEVELAND (CNNMoney.com) -- As the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County... read more
Posted October 31, 2007 in Press Releases
House passes bill to end cuts to unemploymentBy Catherine Candisky The Columbus Dispatch It's an amazing turn of events for a proposal that has lingered in the legislature for more than a year and a half. The House... read more
Posted October 30, 2007 in Press Releases
The governor and others talk a good game about alternative energy. Then they embrace Senate legislation that should be much stronger Columbus Dispatch Ted Strickland and other Democrats campaigned across the state last year touting the economic... read more
Posted October 28, 2007 in Press Releases
National legislation to help those facing foreclosure yet to be pushed through; state works on own measures.By Jessica Wehrman Dayton Daily News WASHINGTON read more
Posted October 28, 2007 in Press Releases
The Akron Beacon Journal By Dennis J. Willard COLUMBUS: Pregnant women working for small companies shouldn't start planning to take a 12-week leave of absence yet. Yes, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission flexed its muscle last week and... read more
Posted October 26, 2007 in Press Releases
The Cleveland Plain Dealer By Jeff Coryell House Speaker Jon Husted (R-Kettering) expressed opposition this week to the Ohio Healthy Families Act, proposed by a coalition called Ohioans for Healthy Families. (The group is primarily composed of... read more
Posted August 17, 2007 in Press Releases
The Hannah Report With Democrats and Republicans offering competing energy platforms this week and Ohio legislators seeing representation at a related policy summit in Nashville, Policy Matters Ohio announced the release of a national report recognizing... read more
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