News from Ohio

>Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Democrat, signed a bill to clean up the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Toledo Blade:
The current oversight of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, criticized as too slow to respond to hints of scandal, will undergo an overhaul under a bill signed into law yesterday by Gov. Ted Strickland. The law will replace the Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission with a stronger 11-member board of directors and create a new legislative panel to provide yet another set of eyes to watch over the nation's largest state-run insurance fund for injured workers....

Even though the previous administration that was headed by Republican Gov. Taft considered the Ohio BWC as their cash cow and reward money for political supporters (Tom Noe's Coingate), real reform has finally arrived.

>Wouldn't you like to see an end to school vouchers? Don't you think that citizens would like to vote to end the school voucher program which robs millions and millions from the state public schools?

> Columbus Mayor Coleman: With his wife returning to rehab and a son in the military, it has been a tough time for the Coleman family. Mayor Coleman, an extremely popular mayor, has won the overwhelming support of the citizens in central Ohio. My thoughts and prayers are with the Mrs. Frankie Coleman and the Mayor at this difficult time.