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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
You may recall that Ohio Democrats had some optimism over the candidacy of state Rep. Todd Book, who announced in July that he would be challenging chronic underachiever Jean Schmidt in this R+13 suburban Cincinnati district. Looks like the Book has been closed : State Rep. Todd Book- the Scioto County lawmaker who is a favorite of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Democratic Party leaders - is dropping...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A group representing Hispanic citizens is suing Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to stop the state from canceling vehicle registrations for thousands of people who cannot provide proof of legal U.S. residency.
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
In this post a few weeks ago, I noted with great dismay and disappointment that Ohio Governor Ted Strickland had failed to act on any of a large number of clemency requests during his three years as the state's chief...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday granted clemency to 78 inmates, none of them on death row, after a painstaking review of three years of requests extending into his predecessor's term.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
After Richard Handy of Fairfield received an e-mail from a conservative group calling Gov. Ted Strickland's proposed delay of Ohio's income tax cuts a "retroactive tax increase," Handy fired off a few passionate words to some state senators.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In videotaped comments, a state agency director appears to back off new standards Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's administration has been pushing that would require prevailing union wages to be paid on more state construction projects.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Both President Obama and Gov. Ted Strickland have slipped considerably in the esteem of Ohioans over the past six months, according to an Ohio Poll released this morning.
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Unsurprisingly, both old and new media are talking about Governor's Ted Strickland's decision to put a halt to executions in Ohio for the next few months. Here is some of the coverage: From the Columbus Dispatch here, "Which is more...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures, the latest in a series of unprecedented capital punishment developments in Ohio.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland issued the reprieves for condemned inmates Lawrence Reynolds and Darryl Durr in the midst of a legal battle over Reynolds' execution, which had been scheduled for Thursday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The Associated Press has learned that Gov. Ted Strickland will propose postponing the final year of a planned income tax cut to close a looming budget shortfall.
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PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Most of you have probably heard by now about Ohio's attempted execution of Romell Broom on Tuesday (articles can be found here and here), where Broom received a one-week reprieve from Gov. Ted Strickland after the execution team tried unsuccessfully for more than two hours to locate a vein. Similar problems occurred with the executions of Joseph Clark in 2006 (delayed for 90 minutes) and Christopher...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Lawyers plan state and federal lawsuits and a request to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to stop next week's unprecedented second execution attempt of a man whose lethal injection failed on Tuesday.
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Quinnipiac (9/8-10, likely voters, 6/26-7/1 in parentheses): Ted Strickland (D-inc) : 46 (43) John Kasich (R) : 36 (38) (MoE: ?3%) There's some definite improvement in the Ohio Governor's race, where a number of summertime polls showed incumbent Dem Ted Strickland leading John Kasich within the margin error. Strickland's putting a little more distance between himself and the ex-Rep., now holding a...
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