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Ohioans probably will never give up their right to elect all the state's judges.

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

They wanted to know the organization's relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas, a tea party member in Cincinnati who had never worked with the township organization.

How many times have children been held out as the best hope for the future of any single state or nation? Too many times to count is the correct answer.

Throwing the death penalty at alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro will turn an open-and-shut legal case into a long, expensive mess, opponents of the move tell Mansfield Frazier.

Spokespersons for both Republican Gov. John Kasich, left, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed Fitzgerald defended the use of monthly jobs reports in political campaigning.

Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett swore in Kay Reynolds of the Scioto County Republican Party as the new Vice Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, at the ORP headquarters in Columbus Wednesday.

Like far too many sibling states, Ohio's ruling superstructure---its governor, his cabinet, the legislature and the state supreme court---is far to the right of the voting populace.

On Monday morning, we published a story looking at what I called Ohio Governor John Kasich's "remarkable renaissance." Two years ago, Kasich was Ohio's bte noire, one of the most unpopular governors in America.

John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, had hit rock bottom. It was March 2011, and Kasich was about to sign Senate Bill 5, the controversial anti-union legislation that curbed bargaining rights for cops, firefighters, teachers, and other public employees.

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Steven R. Schoeny's department will focus on Mayor Michael B. Coleman's goal of demolishing 900 vacant and abandoned houses.

Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich and Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation [BWC] Director Steve Buehrer used Homage, a small boutique clothing shop in Columbus' Short North arts district, as the venue Thursday for their announcement to distribute a cash rebate of $1 billion to all 210,000 businesses, a proposal they said will boost a flagging economy by ... (more)

Passenger trains and streetcars got a new champion Monday when President Obama nominated Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to replace retiring Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.

A week ago, the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Ohio lost 20,400 seasonally adjusted jobs in March, and that its unemployment rate remained at 7.1 percent.

At this point, Gov. Kasich would seem to be in pretty good shape. He has several high-profile policy victories, the state's budget is balanced and credit rating upgraded , and economic conditions have improved markedly.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald brought his 1-day-old campaign to Toledo today, where he met with a group of supporters, and also was picketed by Republicans mocking him for not visiting Toledo on his first day as a candidate.

Not since Election Night of 2010, when he squeaked to a narrow win over Gov. Ted Strickland, has first-term Gov.

Ed FitzGerald is Cuyahoga County's executive. He's a former FBI agent who helped clean up Chicago corruption.

If you want to get a hold of the director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, don't bother calling the department's office in an old converted department store in downtown Columbus.