Ohio Government News

It's official: A Washington bureaucrat could stand amid 1,000 acres of tall corn and still not realize he was in the country.

Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, Gov. John R. Kasich, Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor and Ohio Department of Veterans Services Director Thomas N. Moe honored Ohio service members who lost their lives during the Governor's Wreath Laying Ceremony in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse today.

Mother's Day is over for the year, but the health-care needs of working-class Ohio mothers and their children remain acute.

Connie Pillich, now serving her third term in the Ohio House of Representatives, announced Monday that she will take on one-term incumbent Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel in 2014.

Ohio added 7,600 jobs in April, continuing a trend of frustratingly slow recovery, officials say.

Groups supporting Georgia's expansion of Medicaid didn't fold their tents and wander off into the night when the General Assembly adjourned.

Revenues for the 2013 fiscal year ending on June 30 totaled $18,591,323, while expenses fell to $17,830,982. Increases in property and income taxes, as well as state grants-in-aid, added to the revenue side.

Seven regional chambers of commerce and the state chamber want the General Assembly to clarify the auditing boundaries that pertain to JobsOhio , the quasi-private company that's heir to the former Ohio Department of Development.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that he has filed a civil lawsuit against those connected to an Ohio business accused of selling synthetic drugs to customers.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says Utica shale oil and gas production has grown over the past couple of years.

The latest job numbers show a tick downwards again in the unemployment rate. But Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler reports it still hasn't dropped below a big low it hit in December.

Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.

Back in February 2013, Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio encouraged a "diocesan conversation" about gun control with the "hope that in engaging this highly-charged topic, we might model the spiritual disciplines of respect, relentless self-questioning, and acknowledgment of what is of value in the arguments of ... (more)

Ohio was among the 40 states the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that saw a slight dip in unemployment.

Ohio's unemployment rate was 7.0 percent in April 2013, compared to 7.1 percent in March, according to data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The Kent business community received an update on the current state of affairs in Columbus, mainly the state budget process, Thursday by State Rep.

Asbestos personal injury trusts proliferated after many of the early primary asbestos product manufacturers reorganized under bankruptcy law.

The jury trial of a Pike Township man accused of growing marijuana in his backyard garden last summer was averted at the last minute on Tuesday after the defendant pleaded no contest to the charge.

Dissatisfied with state pension reforms enacted last year that affect 1.8 million current and former government workers, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel says without more changes "there will be nothing left at the end of the rainbow" when public employees retire.

The Area Agency on Aging District 7, Inc. celebrates the accomplishments of our older citizens in recognition of May as Older Americans Month.