Ohio News

* Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Dispatch:
Jennifer Brunner will receive a national award today that calls her courageous for trying to overhaul the state's voting system, but critics in Ohio call her plans costly and reckless at a time when Ohio is strapped for cash and the focus of another presidential election.

The secretary of state will accept a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in Boston for pushing Ohio away from touch-screen voting machines toward optically scanned paper ballots.....

Congratulations! It is good to see that Brunner's hard work has been noticed.

* Did you know Republican congressional candidate Steve Stivers, was against the increase in Ohio minimum wage? Stivers wanted exemptions for certain workers. To put it plainly, Stivers did not want home health-care workers, farm workers, and amusement park employees to receive the new increase in the Ohio minimum wage and he fought against it. (Dispatch: 4/26/07, MyEmploymentLawyer). Despite his opposition to the minimum wage for these three groups, Stivers lost and they were awarded the minimum wage increase.

Steve Stivers is a member of the Ohio Army National Guard. The Dispatch clarifies his recent military service.