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Commissioners support Manchester’s push for prevailing wage reform Manchester SIDNEY – State Rep. Susan Manchester earned support from the Shelby County commissioners Tuesday morning for her effort for prevailing wage reform in Ohio but received pushback on the override of Gov. Mike DeWine’s Senate Bill 22 veto. The Republican from Waynesfield visited with the commissioners and Angela Hamberg, executive director of the Shelby County Regional Planning Commission, to discuss issues being debated in Columbus. One of her proposed bills would allow government entities to opt out of prevaili...

Husted says the words were aimed at the Chinese government’s failure to come clean on what it knows on the origins of COVID-19, and were not aimed at those of Chinese or Asian descent. He added in lengthy public comments Thursday that no harm was meant, that he has many Asian American friends and that the word Wuhan is “inseparable” from the back story of the pandemic — referring to a city, not an ethnicity. Wrong response. Husted knows that using weaponized expressions like “China virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Kung flu” is wrong. That it is dangerous. That it is something fo...

133 views Source:  The Blade Apr. 1—COLUMBUS — The controversial $1 billion bailout of two nuclear power plants that came to epitomize the idea of legislation being for sale in Ohio is no more. Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed House Bill 128 into law, effectively repealing portions of House Bill 6 enacted in 2019 that would have surcharged electricity customers across the state to subsidize the Lake Erie plants and lock in high future profits for Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. The law was the end product of an alleged $61 million bribery scheme that has led to federal racketeering cha...

196 views Source:  The Blade Mar. 9—COLUMBUS — A House committee Tuesday set the stage for a full chamber vote to partly repeal provisions of a state law at the heart of a $61 million Ohio Statehouse bribery scandal. The full Ohio House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday. This would mark the House's first action to undo a $1 billion, consumer-financed bailout of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Oak Harbor and the Perry plant east of Cleveland. That law has come to epitomize shady, backroom dealing hidden even to those lawmakers ultimately manipulated to get it passe...

Riedel, Stein introduce bill to give voters a voice on wind and solar projects Riedel COLUMBUS – State Representatives Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) and Dick Stein (R- Norwalk) recently introduced a bill that they say protects the property rights of township residents by allowing a public referendum for wind and solar projects. “As a state legislator in Northwest Ohio, I represent the counties with the most wind development in the state,” said Riedel. “The beauty of this bill is that it gives local control to township residents for them to decide whe...