Ohio will soon have a voting system that is uniform across the state. Last month Secretary of State Ken Blackwell ordered county election officials to replace all other systems with precinct-count o
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), chief protector of the state's air, water and soil, recently convened a committee that drafted proposed rules concerning the emission of airborne pol
Every significant decision that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell made regarding the 2004 presidential election benefited George W. Bush. Blackwell was honorary co-chair of Bush's 2004 Ohio c
The Nov. 2 election is behind us, leaving cheering Republicans eager to complete their reclamation of America and deflated Democrats terrified of unbridled conservatism. As predicted by most, Ohio
There was a time when Cincinnati's morality police were content to defend the walls of the city against sex and sin. In the mid-1970s Charles H. Keating Jr. -- a Cincinnati banker who would later b
Ever since Ronald Reagan dramatically posed the question while campaigning in 1980, candidates for political office predictably ask voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Inc
It's difficult to overstate the importance of Ohio's role in presidential elections. In the 26 elections since 1900, only two candidates -- Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and John F. Kenned
The theory behind laws guaranteeing public access to government-generated records is that the records belong to the public, not to the government. State and local officials serve only as custodians
Despite very real privacy and data security concerns, the Taft administration provides information compiled from Ohioans' driver licenses, vehicle registrations, traffic infractions, court proceedin
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