Public employee bargaining remains a state issue
In Columbus the fight over public employee collective bargaining rights resurfaces as the Senate foresees a lengthy budget process and school finance reforms. in the House a scaled down bill aims to remove costly provisions, avoid stringent guidelines, and silence the right to strike while scrapping agency shop terms and the Ferguson Act, with Republicans opposing the financial pull of union dues.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Senate
Finance Committee
Harry Meshel
Youngstown
Lorain
Cleveland
Camera
Thomas Alan Meter
Rushland
Cartier
James A. Rhodes
House
van Meter
Social services hit hardest by CETA cutbacks
Nine Lorain County social service agencies reduced services due to CETA funding cuts approved by Congress. Since the year began, 35 jobs were laid off across agencies including Walter G. Nord centers Lorain County Community Action Agency Youth Services Oberlin Center for Integrated Services Senior Citizens Association and the county welfare department. Losses include secretaries case workers and outreach workers. agencies plan to seek other funding while reducing services and re evaluating programs for seniors and the disabled.
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Lorain County
Congress
CETA
Walter G. Nord
Lorain County Community Action Agency
Youth Services, Inc
Oberlin Center For Integrated Services
Senior Citizens Association of
County Welfare Department
Charles Hopkins
Catholic Youth Organiation
CYO
Area officials press to keep Lorain data separate in SMSA fight
Washington hearing resumes Friday to seek separate statistical identity for Lorain County within the Greater Cleveland area. Elyria and Lorain officials, along with the Lorain County Regional Planning Commission, urge the federal government to maintain distinct data, fearing loss of funding and diminished local development if merged into the Cleveland SMSA.
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Lorain County
Washington
D.C
Elyria and
Lorain
John W. Hall
LCRPC
Lorain/Elyria
Holl
Cleveland Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SMSA
Cuyahoga County
Schools may hire PR consultant for Elyria district
The Elyria Board of Education will consider hiring Joseph Patton as a temporary public relations consultant through the end of the school year to finish projects begun by Wesley Winn who resigned in December. Supt. Thomas L Showalter says Patton will be paid a modest fee and the position will not become permanent. The district seeks help on Edupress and the levy campaign while Winn’s duties wind down. The meeting starts 7:30 p.m. at the administration building with a levy session at 8.
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Elyria Board of Education
Joseph Patton
Third St
Wesley Winn Winn
Lorain County
New York State
Winn
Patton
Showalter
Levy
Herndon
Elyria
LCCC
Ms. McGough
Stolen Elyria house dismantled sold and burned
The two story frame house reported stolen December 18 was dismantled and partly sold then burned. Double Eagle Investment Co. owner says the man who moved it is making restitution. Police say the incident stemmed from a misunderstanding and a verbal agreement.
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Elyria
Griswold Road
Meyer Goldberg
18 Nut
Archie Evans
Evans
Kenneth Hammister
Double Eagle Investment Co
Independence
Double Eagle
Larry Jezewski
Sgt
Jezewski
College For Kids to debut at LCCC this spring
Lorain County Community College will launch a College For Kids program on Saturday mornings in spring. Director Susan McGough says courses will stress a collegiate learning experience, likely including science, math, photography, and arts. Instructors need not have degrees if skilled in a field, with program aimed at fourth to eighth graders and broader gifted education interest.
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College For Kids
LCCC
Lorain County
Lorain County Community College
College
Susan McGough
Ms. McGough
Ohio State University
Martin Essex School
Lakeland Community College
Califoria
Firelands
Bowling Green State University
Erie County
Office of Community Education
States crackdown on illegal hazardous waste dumping
Chemical Week says states crack down on illicit dumping of hazardous chemicals. Prosecutions and jail terms already occur nationwide as alarming amounts are poured into rivers hidden in garbage or buried on farmland. The crackdown targets savings seen by companies from illegal disposal.
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New York
Chemical Week
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Transportaton
Terry Lugentheal
Center For the Sightless
Harvard Ave
David Minnich, Jr
David Minnich
Dan Whitney
Denise Whitney
Jerry Whitney
Harvard
Gene Krebs
George Verban
WEOL
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Fred van Hartely
Eldt
Building Department
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