OHIO POLITICS BLOG

• Right to work to be discussed at Milkovich meeting
• Akron council opposes tuition amendment
• Roegner encourages reading with mock legislator program
• Akron City Council approves resolution against adding second judge
• Tom Z meeting with head of Constitution Party

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  Akron attempts to respond to large volume of calls over website hacking

  Between Thursday, when the city of Akron’s website was hacked, and Saturday afternoon, the city’s 311 information center received 5,200 calls from taxpayers desperate to learn if their information had been compromised.

MORE AREA POLITICS

• Wife to replace husband on Falls council
• Akron files police report on hacking, hopes victims can use it for free credit freezes
• Summit Board of Elections considers employee raises
• How to respond if your personal information is among data hacked from Akron
• Akron trying to rejuvenate Neighbors Day; city sponsoring events with help from local organizations
• Akron’s Neighbors Day events
• City of Akron tax files hacked by Turkish group
• One Cuyahoga Falls councilman opts to step down, second sells house
• Portage Crossing development crosses latest hurdle
• Civility group founder fears he might be victim of IRS weeding
• Local news briefs — May 14
• Battle ahead over whether Coughlin can run as nonpartisan for Stow clerk
• Council members to meet with UA president on concerns over multicultural program
• Barberton passes levy; Cuyahoga Falls issue fails
• Check out election results from region

• U.S. House advances student loan fix

  WASHINGTON: The days of fixed-rate student loans could be coming to a close, with House Republicans on Thursday advancing a proposal that would link rates to financial markets.

NATIONAL POLITICS

• GOP Sen. Rand Paul makes early 2016 moves in Iowa
• IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups
• Study sets off immigration bill squabble
• Obama announces choice for transportation secretary
• In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites

• State rep formally requests end of discussion to add second juvenile judge for Summit County

  A state lawmaker, who had co-sponsored an amendment to add a second judge to Summit County Juvenile Court, said Tuesday that he has asked Ohio House leadership to pull his proposal from the state budget bill currently under debate in Columbus.

MORE STATE POLITICS

• State rep formally requests end of discussion to add second juvenile judge for Summit County
• Ohio bill would make more government meetings public
• Democratic lawmaker launches 2014 run for Ohio treasurer
• Portage County Tea Party leader says IRS targeting was to help Obama re-election
• House widens pool of third-grade reading teachers