Budget talks stall as groups push against state cuts
Groups oppose Senate plans to cut state government by 621 million over two years and lead a lobbying push while a joint conference committee weighs House and Senate budgets. House Speaker Riffe and Senate President Gillmor met privately to discuss income tax cuts, with expectations to reach a budget by late next week.
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Columbus
Senate
House
Vernal G. Riffe Jr
D-New Boston
Paul Gillmor
R.fort Clinton
Gillmor
Statehouse
Jack Frech
Athens County Department
Zoning clash threatens Westway Gardens sale plan
Lorain contractor Edmund Kwiecien seeks a meeting with city officials to discuss converting renovated Westway Gardens duplexes into individual units, potentially violating zoning rules. He aims to display two units this weekend with a June 29 grand opening planned. prices are 25000 for two bedrooms and 35000 for three. Meanwhile a dispute grows between the city and police and firefighter unions over bargaining unit scope for the police captain and fire chief roles. A pretrial in Columbus is set for Monday and a State Employee Relations Board hearing for July 3.
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Edmund Kwiecien
Lorain
Westway Gardens
Kwiecien
Norm Failing
Michael Keys
Jerry Klein
Infirmary Road
Scott Sleek
Columbus
FOP
State Employee Relations Board
Local garages urged to handle Ohio auto emission tests
The Northern Ohio Petroleum Retailers Association pushes for repair shops to perform emissions tests in Cleveland Cincinnati and surrounding counties. They oppose a centralized state plan run by one firm and warn of higher costs and potential cheating, while noting the plan would affect about 1.2 million vehicles and require 14 to 20 testing stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Northern Ohio Petroleum Retailers Association
US Epa
Ohio
Cincinnati
Lorain
Cuyahoga
Lake Counties
George Pastor
Association
Ohio Epa
Cleveland Area
Pastor
Goodyear
Scott Compton
EPA
Compton
Lorain County
Cuyahoga County
C-T
Dan Coughlin
Doug Dieken
Cleveland Browns
Coughlin
Dieken
Westlake
Lake Road
Bay Village
Tom Mahl
UFOs Spotted From Russia Blamed on Cosmos 1530 Debris
Residents of Elyria witnessed bright objects in the sky Thursday night and were told by NORAD in Colorado Springs that debris from the Soviet Cosmos 1530 satellite caused the lights as it burned up on reentry.
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Elyria
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Colordo Springs
Col
Big spender in Elyria set for judgeship race
Elyria voters report Democrat John Howard led post election spending with contributions of 8478 and expenditures of 8430 in the primary for one of two Elyria Municipal Court seats. He faces Republican Harry Butler in November, while Ferguson-Nagy and other results are noted.
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Debbie Courtright
Linn Grossman
C-T
Elyria
John Howard
Elyria Municipal Court
Lorain County Board of Elections
Howard
Harry Butler
George Ferguson
Stephen Nagy
Nagy
Elio Zerbini
Con
Butler
Russell Sherman
Ferguson
Kosma Glavas
Terry S. Shilling
North Ridgeville
Richard Noll
Rosemary Berg
Noll
Lorain
Alex M. Olejko
Stanley Kufel
Eugene Rivera
John Micahel Ryan
Woody Mathna
Peter Tower
Chuck Chevalier
Andrew DeAngelis
William Flynn
Robert McDonald
McDonald
Flynn
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Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 30
Sgt
Dennis Miller
Ian Mason
Elizabeth
Ian
Mason
Oberlin
Russia
Big Spender
C-Temcee and
Browns
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