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Friday, August 22, 2008

Topics: Politics
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Democrats throughout Ohio are mourning the loss of the first African American woman to represent Ohio in Congress. Tributes have been pouring in for 58 year old Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who died on Wednesday.

As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Denver, Republican rival John McCain is planning on coming back to Ohio – and could announce his vice presidential pick in Dayton. Nearly 200 people packed an Ohio legislative meeting in southwest Ohio this week to hear testimony on the impact of DHL plans to switch to UPS cargo delivery. The state’s chief elections office has ordered boards of elections in 23 counties to stop the practice nicknamed “sleepovers” – where poll workers take voting machines home before the vote to save time and money on election day. The Attorney General is implementing a no-nonsense e-mail policy in her office, taking aim at one source of trouble for her predecessor. The two major party candidates for the attorney general’s office are sparring over plans for an anti-corruption commission.

We’re more than two years into Gov. Ted Strickland’s term, which he won by campaigning that he would “turn around Ohio”. But the state’s leading conservative think tank says it has some ideas on turning around Ohio as well. David Hansen is the president of the Buckeye Institute and Dr. Richard Vedder is an economics professor at Ohio University and a research adviser for the Buckeye Institute.

It’s the middle of summer and an election year, and yet it was a busy week at the Statehouse. For an update on what’s been happening, here are veteran Statehouse broadcast reporters Bill Cohen and John Damschroder.

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