The Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC) is on the ropes, battered by a barrage of accusations that the group's leader, Robert Tongren, is less interested in protecting consumers' interests than in he  

Issue 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot asks voters to amend the Ohio Constitution to allow the state to borrow up to $500 million for science and technology initiatives. Voter permission is necessary becaus  

In Washington, the president sells a tax cut as the fast solution to a cyclical economic downturn. He sells a supposedly weeks-long occupation of Iraq as an antidote to terrorism. In Columbus, l  

Ohio lawmakers created the Committee to Study State and Local Taxes in June 2002. Comprised of seven legislators and three state agency directors, the committee was responsible for analyzing Ohio  

For the past decade, the Democratic Party, both in Ohio and around the country, has been in a full-throttle decline, rapidly and precipitously shooting downhill. As with any great fall, this one st  

With the Bush and Taft administrations abdicating their roles as protector and bowing to corporate demands by gutting basic and critical product safety regulations, lawsuits are consumers' only shie  

With the White House and the Statehouse repeatedly sacrificing constituents at the altar of business, lawsuits are the only way to hold companies accountable for decisions that place profits ahead o  

Ohio's primary business tax has shriveled significantly over the past three decades. Accounting for 16.45 percent of the general revenue fund in 1972, the corporate franchise tax comprised only 7.27  

In Christopher Buckley's novel Thank You for Smoking, three lobbyists -- one each from the alcohol, tobacco and gun industries -- meet regularly to commiserate over their status as social pariahs. A  

He might not have Gov. Bob Taft's political pedigree, but Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy Hagan, a former Cuyahoga County commissioner, has one thing Taft seems to lack -- a substantive p  

Although campaign advertisements promote him as an active leader, Gov. Bob Taft more accurately wears the label Governor Inertia: He tends to act only when forced to do so. The abysmal condition of  

State Sen. Scott Oelslager (R-Plain Township) introduced legislation in May that could resolve the complex, intertwined conflicts between the rights of people with mental illness and the need to pro  

After weeks of political wrangling, Ohio's legislators have finally agreed on a budget overhaul bill. On June 4, Gov. Bob Taft signed the bill into law, balancing Ohio's budget through the fiscal ye  

What should the 1.8 million children who attend Ohio public schools be taught about the origin of life? On March 11 four panelists -- two proponents of evolutionary biology and two proponents of in  

Gearing up for a campaign season of playing David to the GOP's well-funded Goliath, Democrats have loaded their slingshots with allegations that Ohio Treasurer Joseph Deter is operating a pay-to-pla