Editor's notebook and local wonderings
Auditor James Rymer notes dog license totals are down by January 20 amid complaints about Humane Dept service and wardens. Praise goes to Humane Society ladies for finding homes. Birthday gift package included a blue beret and red white blue shoes. Harold Bissantz suspects they came from a bargain basement. Clerk transitions and long-time Batavia resident Mary Homan, age 94, recalls working for local lawyers and seeks the new courthouse elevator. Cross country ski clinic at East Fork Lake canceled due to insufficient snow. possible Feb 11 reschedule. Courier apologizes for last week's photo switch involving Donna Coy and David Tipton. Irene Adams wins drawing.
Ohio Senate District Reapportionment and Public Policy Notes
State Senator Richard H. Finan outlines reapportionment implications for Ohio losing two U.S. House seats and lists affected states. He critiques a public employees political activity bill, discusses S.B. 389 and S.B. 491, and provides contact details for disability advocacy group Ohio Protection and Advocacy Association. He closes with personal contact information and a Columbus address.
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Union
Miami Two
Mark
Ohio Protection and Advocacy Association
East Long Street
Columbus
Ohio
Seed apart from action in church and garden alike
Snow is plentiful and seed catalogs arrive shaping plans for next summer and followers of Christ aim to grow fruit. The writer warns that plans without follow through lead to withered crops, urging ongoing evangelism and teaching under the Holy Spirit to keep believers fruitful and enduring.
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Paul Varney
Jesus Christ
Harsha opposes nitrite ban in meat products
Congressman William H. Harsha introduces legislation to bar agencies from banning nitrites as a preservative without strong human cancer evidence. He warns a phase-out risks botulism, hurts pork and poultry growers, and cites MIT rat studies while urging a safe, affordable substitute.
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William H. Harsha
Departments of Agriculture and Health, Education, and Welfare
Harsha
MIT
United States
Mussey on power politics in Ohio Senate
In a Columbus report Senator William Mussey critiques Ohio Senate power dynamics. He notes Tim McCormack lost chairmanship and vice chair duties after voting against SB 545, while party leaders push a 6 to 3 committee ratio. Also Senator Massey names Sharon Kimberly White as page for the 113th General Assembly.
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Clermont
Union
Miami
John T
Tim
Senate
Conservation and Environment Committee
McCormack
Ohio Senate
Tim McCormack
Sharon Kimberly White
Wheelersburg
113Th
General Assembly
Miss White
Ohio State University
Taft II named to key Ohio House committees
Taft II Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati is appointed to the House Finance Appropriations and Ways and Means panels and will serve on the Education subcommittee. Republican Leader Corwin Nixon says Taft brings experience and will help craft the budget and funding for Ohio education amid major legislative work this year.
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Robert A. Taft II
Rcincinnati
House
Corwin Nixon
Lebanon
Taft
Nixon
Finance Appropriations Committee
Ohio
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