Mary Kuhlman COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new report offers some cautious optimism about housing insecurity in the Buckeye State. According to the group Policy Matters Ohio, the number of foreclosures in Ohio is down for the second year in a row – a 16 percent decrease from last year. While
Editorial board His proposed bank-tax overhaul shows once again that Gov. John Kasich is capable of tackling entrenched problems with a fair and focused approach. Despite some initial resistance from Republican legislators concerned about harming the industry with higher taxes, Kasich has gained wide support for his plan from financial
Supporters call it “right to work.” Critics call it “the right to work…for less.” Both sides are talking about the same thing: a proposal to change Ohio law to ban unions from requiring workers to pay dues. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports supporters call it the free market at work,
Carrie Ghose A hypothetical average Ohio family of four would be making $12,000 more a year today if Ohio had adopted a right-to-work law in 1977, concludes a report released Wednesday by the conservative Buckeye Institute. The institute supports a drive by several conservative groups to collect signatures for a
Jackie Borchardt A report released Wednesday by the right-leaning Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions says Ohio could benefit from changing its union labor laws. In the report, economist Richard Vedder argues states with right-to-work laws show higher rates of growth in income and have attracted workers while Ohio has
Jim Siegel Banks big and small appear to be getting on board with Gov. John Kasich’s new financial institutions tax. “I don’t think you’ll find a banker here today who doesn’t think it’s a great idea,” said Barry Ritchey, president of Standing Stone National Bank in Lancaster. He was at
Jim Provance DUBLIN, Ohio
Barry M. Horstman Whether it’s Hamilton County selling Drake Hospital property, the city of Cincinnati trying to unload Music Hall or the state of Ohio talking about selling prisons, the turnpike and the lottery, government increasingly appears to be, in real estate jargon, a very motivated seller. The $15 million
Ida Lieszkovszky Yesterday, Governor Kasich said everywhere he looks in Ohio he finds something else to fix, so it’s no surprise that his mid-biennial budget review read like a laundry list of proposed policy changes on energy companies, banks, taxes, etc. Many of the items on that list also touched
Lynn Hulsey KETTERING
David Holthaus Ohio gives up more than $7 billion in revenue each year through tax breaks to businesses, homeowners and working people. But no one is responsible for methodically examining these tax breaks, all 128 of them. That could change. Rep. Denise Driehaus, a Cincinnati Democrat, has introduced a bill
Associated Press | NBC4 click through for video A plan by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to tie higher taxes on oil and gas drilling to an eventual reduction of the statewide income tax met with opposition on multiple fronts Wednesday. The oil and gas industry said the tax increase would
