Ohio scholars from both political parties unloaded on Republicans who insist that President Obama should not fill a newly vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat. This all took place during a news conference held outside Portman’s Columbus office on March 3rd, where speakers urged Sen.…
Please join us next Tuesday, January 27th, 11 am, at 172 East State Street, Columbus, OH, on the 6th floor for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare monthly grassroots meeting.…
Common Cause Ohio is taking aim at a “secretive business-friendly group with ties to ex-JobsOhio boss Mark Kvamme” for filling the campaign coffers of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith French who wrote the court’s opinion rejecting a constitutional challenge to Jobs Ohio.…
COMMON CAUSE OHIO, PROGRESSOHIO CALL FOR ETHICS REVIEW
OF STATE LEGISLATIVE, POLITICAL CONSULTING CONFLICTS
September 8, 2014
COLUMBUS – Common Cause Ohio and ProgressOhio will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday September 9, 2014 regarding published reports in the Dayton Daily News over senior Ohio Senate Republican aides work as political consultants for their Caucus and the need for more restrictive ethics policies.…
Governor Kasich and His Administration Should Enforce Private Contracts Now to Ensure that Home Health Aids Receive Payments
Home Health Care Aides Haven’t Been Paid for a Month or More Due to State Contracted Program
ProgressOhio and home health aides will hold a press conference this Wednesday in Cleveland to call on Governor Kasich to enforce provisions of contracts that would set up a fund to assist home health aides.…
Educators, students and advocates call for change following mounting of evidence of poor-performing schools
STATEHOUSE, Columbus – Educators, students and other advocates of a strong public school system took to the Ohio Statehouse steps today to ask our officeholders, “What does it take?”
In the past two months alone, there has been overwhelming evidence that charter schools operated by Concept Schools and affiliated with theGulen Movement have failed to provide a quality education to Ohio students and instead have been rampant with sexism, racism, mismanagement, test-tampering and other illegal activity.…
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, already on the record as being against LGBT civil rights, but in a new political survey sent out by the fringe anti-abortion group Right To Life of Greater Cincinnati he has pledged that he will “work actively” to revoke state laws and local ordinances that upset people’s religious beliefs.…
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Big tax breaks to the wealthy in MBR, with little job growth; unemployment rate falls as workers leave the labor force; the Supreme Court gives predatory payday lenders a pass on triple digit interest rates; but severance taxes to cover public costs of fracking are “puny;” and Director Amy Hanauer to rally the City Club of Cleveland on making our Ohio economy work…for all of us.…
Statement released by Carney’s team:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2014
Contact: Kelley Ashford, (740) 478-9317
CARNEY URGES YOST TO COMPLETE CHARTER SCHOOL PROBE
Request Comes After Multiple Allegations of Malpractice
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Today, State Auditor candidate and State Representative John Patrick Carney (D-Clintonville) joined in the effort to urge State Auditor David Yost to investigate serious questions that have been raised about potential unethical behavior at the chain of charter schools in Ohio that operate under the ‘Concept Schools’ name.…