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December 30, 2020 CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio’s largest electric utility, its reputation battered by scandal, has been besieged by more than a dozen lawsuits filed by angry shareholders who include some of the country’s biggest institutional investors. And, if history is a guide, FirstEnergy Corp. and its insurers could find themselves paying millions to settle those complaints, as the company did more than 15 years ago when confronted by lawsuits for lying about a dangerous hole in a reactor head at a nuclear power plant and for contributing to the largest blackout in U.S. history. FirstEner...

Aaron Doster / AP This column is a look-ahead at politics in this corner of the world. It is not by any means a prediction of the future. I am not Carnac the Magnificent . (Younger readers, just Google it.) Anyone who tells you that he or she predicted a year ago all the weird twists and turns the politics of 2020 would take is fibbing, to put it mildly. So you'll get no predictions for 2021 here. If that's what you are looking for, buy an Ouija board. What follows is all about what is likely to transpire in this neck of the woods in the eagerly awaited 2021.

Mark Gillispie December 30, 2020 - 5:20 AM CLEVELAND - Ohio’s largest electric utility, its reputation battered by scandal, has been besieged by more than a dozen lawsuits filed by angry shareholders who include some of the country’s biggest institutional investors. And, if history is a guide, FirstEnergy Corp. and its insurers could find themselves paying millions to settle those complaints, as the company did more than 15 years ago when confronted by lawsuits for lying about a dangerous hole in a reactor head at a nuclear power plant and for contributin...

4:03 In the course of seven years, HB6 sends $1 billion in subsidies to nuclear plants, $140 million to solar farms, and hundreds of millions of dollars to coal plants, paid for by new charges on every Ohio electric user’s bills. All while cutting green energy mandates.    The beginning of 2020 had so much on its plate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn that it seemed like the controversial energy law had been left in the rear view mirror.        That's U.S. Attorney David DeVillers announcing that Republican House Speaker Larry Householder was under arre...

by Mark Gillispie, The Associated Press Posted Dec 30, 2020 8:20 am EDT Last Updated Dec 30, 2020 at 8:26 am EDT FILE – In this April 12, 2005, file photo, operator Kevin Holko monitors the control room during a scheduled refueling shutdown at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. A federal court docket showed that "plea agreements" were filed Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 for defendants Jeffrey Longstreth, a longtime political adviser, and Juan Cespedes, a lobbyist described by investigators as a "key middleman" in a $60 million bribery case also involving ex-Ohio House Speaker...