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Columbus City Council is scheduled to vote on a nearly $1 billion annual budget Monday night, following a failed bid to delay police hiring. The dispute…
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Columbus City Council passed a handful of amendments to the 2021 city budget on Thursday, including one that suspends police hiring until a recruiting…
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Congressional forecasters expect the federal deficit will hit the second largest in decades, even without factoring in President Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.
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State lawmakers are getting two different forecasts on how much tax revenue will come in over the next two-year budget cycle from their experts and from…
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Gov. Mike DeWine is bringing back his proposal to create more gun regulations, which he says will reduce crime around the state. These were measures that…
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Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 remains a priority of President Biden and Democrats after the Senate approved an amendment prohibiting a wage increase during the pandemic.
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More than half of the state’s COVID-19 deaths are coming from nursing homes. Those and other long-term care facilities are getting a lot of attention in…
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Congressional committees now move to the next stage of finalizing the details of President Biden's $1.9 trillion bill. Democrats are using a process that can pass the legislation on a party-line vote.
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In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss Gov. Mike DeWine's budget proposal,…
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An increase in Ohio Medicaid caseloads could have blown a hole in the new two-year state budget. But Gov. Mike DeWine's new spending plan also includes a…