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Ohio lawmakers do nothing on scandal-tainted House Bill 6 Caught between lawmakers who wanted to do more to curb the nuclear subsidies and those who wanted to bail out the plants, Ohios GOP-controlled House couldnt cobble together the votes needed for a change.  “The substance of House Bill 6, not the criminal proceedings, are complex issues on which there’s a wide range of opinion in the legislature,” said House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima. “The diversity of views on what is good and ap...

Abbot Jeremy Driscoll reflects on holy images Abbot Jeremy Driscoll reflects on an image of Jesus as architect of the universe, an image that hangs in his office at Mount Angel Abbey. (Screen grab from Mount Angel Abbey website) 12/22/2020 2:17 PM select Benedictine Brother Claude Lane wrote an icon of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemani. It was hung this fall in the sacristy at Mount Angel Abbey. (Courtesy Mount Angel Abbey) ...

Advertisement Victoria’s tough new political donation laws may face their first major test after the state Liberal Partys fundraising arm diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions into a federal campaign fund in an apparent attempt to sidestep strict local disclosure rules. Earlier this month the state’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission heard how Liberal fundraising arm Enterprise Victoria channelled both its membership fees and other income into federal c...

Andrews grit should be applauded but there are challenges ahead Opinion Normal text size Advertisement After two scathing reports on the COVID failures of the Andrews government, the opposition want a royal commission. Is there any reason other than to gift the struggling Liberals leverage for their sole line of attack? The Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass forensically examined the lockdown of the North Melbourne Ministry of Housing estate. She concluded it was done for good reasons but in a w...

Ohio lawmakers fail to address tainted House Bill 6: Capitol Letter Rotunda Rumblings 6 feet under: The 133rd Ohio General Assembly will end its two-year session without passing any legislation that in any way addresses House Bill 6, the nuclear bailout law at the center of an enormous bribery scandal. As Jeremy Pelzer writes, the reason for such a stunning failure is that legislative Republicans, who dominate both the Ohio House and Senate, are split about whether to keep, repeal, or reform th...

Victorias coronavirus hotel quarantine report delivers no knockout blow for defiant Daniel Andrews Posted MonMonday 21 updated MonMonday 21 DecDecember 2020 at 9:31pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Share Print text only Premier Daniel Andrews does not want to be known as a quitter. Even in the face of the shocking failure of his Government that sparked Victorias deadly and expensive second wave, Andrews is banking on voter...

Daniel Andrews has apologised for the failings of the states first hotel quarantine program, saying there will be people "missing from the Christmas table on Friday" as a result of the disastrous scheme. Speaking publicly on the reports findings since they were released on Monday morning the Victorian Premier offered his governments sympathies and condolences to everyone affected by the deadly coronavirus second wave - triggered by hotel quarantine. "I want to apologise to the Victorian comm...

This is a bad idea This is a bad idea December 19, 2020 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. This is a bad idea Why is the Victorian government even thinking about a traffic light system for NSW travellers into our state? Bitter experience has taught us how quickly outbreaks spread, and the heartbreaking consequences that follow. We fought hard to earn our current COVID-free status, and that status is at now ri...

Advertisement Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg headlined an exclusive fundraising dinner at the upmarket Flower Drum restaurant last year attended by a key figure in the Casey land scandal who had been raided by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog just 18 days earlier. The Age can reveal that former Liberal MP turned lobbyist Lorraine Wreford attended the fundraising dinner in October last year as the representative of allegedly corrupt property developer John Woodman shortly after her home ...

Advertisement While the dust of Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s overreaction to a satirical image tweeted by a Chinese diplomat – and subsequent rhetorical clashes with Beijing – has yet to settle, another much more pressing challenge has been put on Morrison’s desk. The passage of the Foreign Relations Bill has given Canberra the power to scrap Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal. Will Morrison act on his long-felt and justifiable wish now to ensure a consistent ...