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• 2020 Accomplishments: Neighborhoods Highlight

  21-01-2020 21:58 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Yet Another Plan for Prominent Corner to be Presented

  21-01-2020 19:08
  
  The University Impact District Review Board (UIDRB) will soon weigh in on another proposal for the southwest corner of King Avenue and North High Street, continuing a saga that began last spring when St. Louis-based Collegiate Development Group first floated a redevelopment concept for the site. According to documents submitted to the city in advance […]
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• Opinion: Ohio Needs Election Modernization

  21-01-2020 15:47
  
  By J. Bennett Guess Ohioans need to have an urgent, nonpartisan, consensus-driven conversation about a subject we rarely talk about: our state’s woefully lackluster voter participation.  Despite Ohio’s longstanding reputation for being the nation’s election barometer, when it comes to our record of showing up at the polls, “so goes Ohio” is not what we would […]
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• Two Proposals Aim to Eliminate Ohio’s Rape Statute of Limitations

  21-01-2020 15:43
  
  An Ohio House Democrat is adding two more proposals to the legislature’s list of bills seeking to remove the statute of limitations for rape from state law. Last Tuesday, state Rep. John Rogers, D-Mentor-On-The-Lake, introduced House Bill 470 and House Bill 472, with the goal of eliminating the 25-year limit on prosecution of rape cases. The first […]
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• Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus sets Goals for 2020

  21-01-2020 15:38
  
  By Susan Tebben Just weeks after the birth of her twin daughters in 2004, state Rep. Erica Crawley, D-Columbus, went to an emergency room with severe abdominal pain.  At the time, she was breastfeeding her girls, and was still recovering from the trauma of their emergency C-section. She sat in the waiting room for hours in […]
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• Driving While Texting Could Soon Become a Primary Offense in Ohio

  21-01-2020 15:28
  
  By David C. DeWitt A Democratic Ohio House member introduced legislation last Tuesday that would make using cell phones while driving a primary offense, meaning law enforcement would be able to pull over drivers they observe using them. Currently, this is a secondary offense, meaning the driver would have to be pulled over for a separate […]
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