Events Calendar
Most Read Stories
Blogs:
Pets:
Sunburn in canines and felines
The Heldenfiles:
Monday Notebook, New "90210" on DVD
Patrick McManamon:
Eric Wedge will stay the season
Akron Zips:
Opponent outlook: Northern Illinois
Browns Bulletin:
Single-game ticket sales begin July 11
Tribe Matters:
Wedge assured of job through season
Cleveland Browns:
Stallworth test showed marijuana
Kent State Sports:
Men's Basketball Scheduling update
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Updated: Free Agency: Another Gone - Apparently
All Da King's Men:
The Obligatory Palin Post
Blog of Mass Destruction:
The "Limbaugh Babies"
Akron Law Café:
The Veil and the Burqa – Constitutional to Ban or Restrict?
Varsity Letters:
Highland senior receives honor
See Jane Style:
Picnic Wear
Car Chase:
Where do We Go from Here?
Let's Talk Real Estate:
ID My Bug
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Tom asks where to stay while visiting the football Hall of Fame.
Sound Check:
Rundgren fans rejoice!: Second night of AWATS at The Civic added
HRLite House:
Morscruethal Behaviors or Just Lip Service?
Akron Gamer:
Hot link: Best of Nintendo at E3
Dennis Willard
Dennis Willard: Ohio legislators refuse to compromise on budget
COLUMBUS: It's the Dueling Banjos version of state legislative committee hearings. On the north side of the Statehouse, beginning Thursday, Senate Republicans will begin asking questions about Gov. Ted Strickland's proposal to install thousands of slot machines at the state's seven horse-racing tracks.
State budget at stalemate over slots
Governor needs to stop bluffing, make decision
COLUMBUS: Gov. Ted Strickland and Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, are typically civil in their public comments, so it is telling when they resort to name-calling and finger-pointing.
Dennis Willard: Election fears paralyzing government
Purveyors of negativity polluting our airwaves
COLUMBUS: ''The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' In laying out the numerous challenges facing Ohio, Gov. Ted Strickland quoted Franklin Delano Roosevelt this year in his third State of the State address.
Dennis Willard: Plan raids pensions to fix budget
COLUMBUS: Ask anyone you know whether they would rather be vested in one of Ohio's five retirement systems or Social Security, and the overwhelming response will be a state pension plan.
Dennis Willard: Auditor vanishes from view of public
Dire budget warning not fully addressed
COLUMBUS: Like a popular network show that seemingly disappears from the broadcast schedule overnight, state Auditor Mary Taylor has rapidly faded to black.
WILLARD: State auditor slinks to the background
COLUMBUS: Like a popular network show that seemingly disappears from the broadcast schedule overnight, state Auditor Mary Taylor has rapidly faded to black.
Governor proposes slots
State leaders, gambling opponents race to gauge the public's opinion on plan that would put video terminals at Ohio's horse tracks, including Summit County, to help bridge budget gap
COLUMBUS: Facing a projected $3.2 billion revenue shortfall in the next two years, Gov. Ted Strickland reversed direction Friday and proposed slot machines at Ohio's seven racetracks, including one in Summit County.
Election settlement troubling
COLUMBUS: If you have been a voter for all or any part of the past 30 years, then a court settlement on Tuesday should be an insult to your democratic sensibilities
Dennis Willard: Method for picking justices must go
COLUMBUS: Have you heard this one? Dapper Jeopardy host Alex Trebek reads the following answer: ''The seven highest-ranking justices in the Buckeye State.''
Dennis Willard: State budget projections confusing but bleak
Lawmakers seize upon lower shortfall amount
COLUMBUS: Lawmakers and the audience were staring at Pari Sabety, Gov. Ted Strickland's budget director, like she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and had the Academy Award winners in her briefcase.
WILLARD: No gusher of money in drilling
COLUMBUS: The state, specifically Senate Republicans, want to open as many as 600,000 acres of Ohio parkland to oil and gas drilling.
Charter schools at center of debate
Ohio's party leaders remain at odds, so far
COLUMBUS: The true battle over the future of charter schools will come in the next three weeks. Publicly, the debate will hinge on accountability and choice for children and parents, but the driving forces behind the scenes — teachers' unions and Republican campaign contributors — will have as much to say as anyone in determining which direction the state takes on charter schools.
Dennis Willard: Strickland faces fight from Kasich
COLUMBUS: How will Ohio voters view John Kasich, the Republican who announced today that he will run for governor next year against incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland?
GOP Senate boots chance to fix schools
Many school districts get funding 'guarantee'
COLUMBUS: Republicans have been in charge of the Ohio Senate since 1985. On Friday, they demonstrated that their reign has lasted at least one day too long.
WILLARD: GOP senators toss out chance to fix school funding
COLUMBUS: Republicans have been in charge of the Ohio Senate since 1985. On Friday, they demonstrated that their reign has lasted at least one day too long.
Dennis Willard: Nonprofit can of worms will be sealed
Amendment to erase Strickland's measure for soliciting money
COLUMBUS: A bad idea is about to go by the wayside. State Sen. Tim Schaffer, R-Lancaster, has drafted an amendment to remove language in the two-year budget bill that would allow Gov. Ted Strickland to create nonprofit corporations within state government to solicit contributions from individuals and businesses.
Dennis Willard: Public is loser as legislators maneuver
Ohio 'requestor' law shields lawmakers, staff from scrutiny
COLUMBUS: In Franz Kafka's The Trial, a chilling polemic against the eradication of personal rights, judicial rules and common decency, the main character is arrested, put on trial and executed without even knowing the charges against him or the names and faces of his accusers.
Dennis J. Willard: For horse industry, slots offer new hope
Video terminals at tracks could boost race purses
COLUMBUS: Wearing ball caps and blue jeans, several hundred horse trainers, owners, breeders, stable hands and others in the racing industry stood today in the warm sun on the south side of the Statehouse.
Dennis Willard: Nonprofits, government a rotten pair
Politics, nonprofits like oil and water
COLUMBUS: Gov. Ted Strickland and state lawmakers need look no further than Pennsylvania to see that politicians and nonprofits do not go together.
Government, nonprofits don't mix
COLUMBUS: Gov. Ted Strickland and state lawmakers need look no further than Pennsylvania to see that politicians and nonprofits do not go together.
Dennis Willard: Political battles already lining up
Ohio Democratic chief keeps eyes on future
COLUMBUS: Chris Redfern, the boyish-looking state chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, stood Tuesday with his back against the headquarters' wall.
Dennis Willard: Budget mess is big headache in Columbus
COLUMBUS: Ohio Senate Republicans have every reason and right to feel betrayed by Ted Strickland, the governor's budget office and the House Democrats.
