Ohio voters weigh pocketbook issues in off year election
Voters across Ohio faced by money issues and two statewide measures as turnout hovered around 54 percent of eligible voters. Issue 1 would allow private insurers to sell workers compensation coverage, while Issue 2 proposed a new five member independent agency to approve district boundaries.
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Columbus
API
Ohio
Cleveland
Toledo
Dayton
Youngstown
Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr
Rhodes
Ohio General Assembly
State Apportionment Board
Council rejects bid to cut civil service salaries
Lorain council deadlocks 4 4 defeating a Skimin proposal to remove 3500 from the civil service salary account. The measure would shift funds from surplus city accounts to cash-starved ones as the civil service suit against the city proceeds. The issue moves to a second reading amid a looming November 20 common pleas hearing.
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Lorain
Civil Service Commission
Council
Edmond Skimin
Civil Service
Commission
Ted LeSner
Common Pleas Court
Skimin
Victor Wlaszyn
D-6
Wlaszyn
Joseph Koziura
Westway Gardens tenants threaten rent escrow over repairs
About 20 residents at Westway Gardens plan to seek Legal Aid help to set up rent escrow for withheld payments. They cite slow maintenance on furnaces sinks floors and roofs in 299 units owned by Bruskin Agency New Jersey. Building inspector Evans says unsafe structures exist and demolition options are unclear. city aims to act within a week.
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Westway Gardens
Kathy Malony
City Council
The
Bruskin Agency of
New Brunswick
N.J
Garden Street
Infirmary Road
Ms. Malony
George Ferguson
Bruskin Agency
Michael Keys
Ferguson
Archie Evans
Legal Department
Evans
Pete Shilling
Oberlin considers Bailey Controls bid for plant upgrade
Oberlin City Council advanced an emergency measure to authorize Bailey Controls of Cleveland to install a flow control system at the Oberlin Water Treatment Plant. The bid totals 49 565 dollars. Approval hinges on Equal Opportunities status.
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Oberlin
Bailey Controls Co
Cleveland
Bailey Controls
Council
Long
Dewey Ganzel
Clark Drum
Griffith Blacktop, Inc. of
Lorain
Robin Park and Pyle Road
Richard Lothrop
Norman Long
Lorain lifts bid to halt group home near church site
Lorain law department finds no grounds to block the proposed Nord Center group home for mentally ill patients at 3147 Toledo Ave. Councilman Mathna backed the stop effort but withdraws after the ruling. State approval is still required and neighborhood response will determine if the home moves forward.
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Lorain
St Nicholas Byzantine Orthodox Church
Toledo Ave
Woodrow Mathna
Lorain County
Walter G. Nord
LAW Department
Mathna
Mourad
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Franklin B. Walter
George V. Voinovich
Patrick A. Sweeney
Voinovich
Sweeney
Coshocton
Coshocton County
Douglas DeGood
Carly Finkbeiner
George Vukovich
Hugh Frost
Youngstown State University
Paul R. Leonard
Wayne Hays
Belmont County Board of Education
Law
Edward Zaleski
LeSuer
D-2
Charlie Brown
Martha Radachy
Ohio St
Dave Zapotosky
Westway
Debbie Courtright
C-T
Stephanie Hilf
Affirmative Action Group
Bill Long
Bailey
Coun
Feather Organization
CIC
Artino Street
Jerry Warnke
UPI
James Herdman
Angelo Kissos
South Side
Louis Sykes
Susan Cooper
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