There is a shortage of nurses around the country and in Ohio. Due to several factors, some of which are generally unalterable (the aging of Baby Boomers and a wave of retirements that will soon stri  

For several years now, stories have been popping up in print and broadcast media about the nursing shortage in the United States. Far from an alarmist media tactic to attract viewers and readers, th  

On Feb. 6 Gov. Bob Taft signed into law House Bill 272, widely known as the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. On that day Taft also issued a press release explaining his support for the legislation  

Diebold Election Systems of North Canton, Ohio, is taking a beating. As outlined in last month's Statehouse, a recent study found that the AccuVote-TS, the company's touch-screen voting system, cont  

For years, computer scientists have warned that electronic voting systems, which generally employ touch screens or keypads to record votes onto electronic storage media, are vulnerable to tampering.  

Ohio's traditional public schools triumphed over community schools in most measures of academic performance, according to a recent report by the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO), the  

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