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Friday, October 26, 2007

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Lawmakers grilled state education officials about how sex offenders and child abusers have ended up as teachers in Ohio’s public school classrooms. The group representing Ohio’s mortgage bankers is saying the governor’s proposed compact to deal with the state’s foreclosure crisis could make things worse. Electronic slot-type machines are now illegal, and Attorney General Marc Dann explains what happens to those businesses that operate those machines. The state is still losing farmland, and will host the largest statewide farmland preservation gathering in the country next week to talk about how protecting land could help build the state’s economy. Agriculture Department director Robert Boggs and Jill Clark, the director of the center for Farmland Policy Innovation at the Ohio State University, talk about the issue. And though some pumpkin farmers have had it rough, Dan Kirts produced a 700-pound pumpkin that’s on display at the governor’s mansion this week, after a makeover by expert carver Jeannette Paras of Dublin.

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