The August special election takes place Tuesday to decide whether or not it will be harder to amend the Ohio Constitution. For voters, there are volunteers, from clergy and social workers to election protection advocates at the polls to answer questions or report issues.
GOSHEN Goshen City Hall heard calls for Mayor Russell Stroud s resignation Tuesday after the mayor fired a second city employee while the Goshen City Council looked for ways to limit Stroud s authority over city spending and personnel decisions.
A former city employee says she was fired without cause by the city s new mayor, whom she accused of creating a "hostile work environment" at City Hall.
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Demonstrators assembled at the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, April 10, demanding action in response to a series of anti-protest bills that are being debated in the Ohio House and Senate. The event, headlined “Protest While You Can,” was organized by Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio, which called the bills “an unconstitutional affront to our fundamental First Amendment rights to assemble, speak and petition the government.”
This unconstitutional affront is only one of many recent attacks on demonstration and protest rights. Following the anti-pipeline protests at Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017, oil companies were among many capitalist interests lobbying for legislation to criminalize protests targeting “critical infrastructure.” One such bill in Ohio was Senate Bill 33.
A major freight rail carrier and a logistics company have reached an agreement for the sale of key rail lines, including 650 miles of track in Wisconsin and upper Michigan
CN will sell to Watco its non-core lines and assets on the Soo subdivision. This includes about 250 miles of track that runs from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Oba, Ontario and about 650 miles of branch lines of Wisconsin Central Ltd. in Wisconsin and Michigan. This marks the successful conclusion of the sale process that CN announced and launched in July of 2020.
Not all lines the company uses here would be sold, according a map of the affected assets provided by CN. The map shows the sale includes rarely used Rusk County tracks from Tony west to Goodman in Marinette County. CN will retain its track between Ladysmith and Tony.