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Friday, July 13, 2007

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More than three times as many taxpayers affected by last month's theft of a computer storage device from a state intern’s car than previously thought. With the budget finished, the governor moved ahead with one of his stated priorities and met with a coalition of education groups that are promoting a constitutional amendment that would overhaul funding for public education. Ohio’s public schools now have a blueprint to create their own anti-bullying policies, but the state’s model policy doesn’t specifically reference ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual orientation. E. Gordon Gee, the bowtie-bedecked former president at Ohio State, will be back in his old office on campus in Columbus later this summer. Though the heat of summer is hitting hard across Ohio, workers at county auditor’s offices and the state tax department are already looking ahead to the dead of winter, when senior citizens and disabled homeowners can apply for the property tax break created in the state budget by the planned cashing-in of the state’s share of the huge tobacco lawsuit settlement from 1998. Richard Levin, Ohio’s tax commissioner, explains how it works. And lawmakers and the governor agreed that more kids will have Medicaid coverage, and the budget also includes $20 million in additional funding for mental health services. But Medicaid coverage was not restored to some working parents, and one of the governor’s 38 line item vetoes hits the mental health community. Jim Mauro, the executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Ohio, and Col Owens is with the Ohio Family Coverage Coalition discuss.

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