It’s the first time that candidates have squared off in newly redrawn House and Senate districts,which passed last fall with bipartisan support. The new maps make it all but certain that Republicans will keep their 60%-plus supermajorities in both the House and Senate. However...
The submission came as members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission and their staff experts were shuttling between private and public meetings to negotiate a fix by Saturday to earlier Republican-drawn maps of Ohio House and Ohio Senate districts. Those lines were tossed Jan. 12 by th...
The Ohio House passed HB 364 on a unanimous vote in June. The Ohio Senate followed suit on Dec. 19 on a vote of 30-0. The legislation, at press time, was awaiting Gov. Mike DeWine’s signature. “I want to thank lawmakers in the Ohio House and Senate for passing this commonsense ...
Ohio school districts must adopt a policy to accommodate students’ sincerely held religious beliefs. The new law, signed Friday by Gov. Mike DeWine, was introduced more than a year ago. It requires the district to adopt a policy prohibiting the encouraging of students, employees, and applicants...
Analyzes the 1992 Senate elections in Ohio, surveys congressional redistricting in that state and looks at the most significant House contests in that state's new districts. Ohio's loss of two seats to reapportionment; Democratic Rep. John Glenn's campaign against GOP challengers Lt. Gov. ...
Only three of the eight Republican women we were tracking won their primary races: Two of them were uncontested and are in deep blue districts, where they are unlikely to win in November. One, Miller in Illinois's 15th, is the incumbent. On the...
Ohio Auditor Keith Faber said the scams have hit at least 23 government offices in cities, villages, townships and school districts, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses of public funds. Read More Toledo, Lucas County to Buy Back Residents’ Medical Debt ...
Ohioans voted overwhelmingly in 2015 to create the commission and have it draw Statehouse districts. During that bipartisan campaign, called Fair Districts for Ohio, they were promised the new system would "protect against gerrymandering.” In 2018, voters gave ...
The Ohio General Assembly is a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives.[215] The Senate is composed of 33 districts, each of which is represented by one senator. Each senator represents approximately 330,000 constituents.[216] The House of Representatives has 99...
In 22 of the 99 Ohio House of Representattives districts, no one challenged the incumbents. In the state Senate, incumbents won by an average of 35 percentage points. "You had more of a challenge in the old Soviet Union politburo", ...' ...