Yesterday Kasich gave his state of the state speech, delivering his unscripted and often rambling message to members of the General Assembly, his cabinet, invited guests and other local and state officials – many of whom he called out during the nearly hour and twenty minute rant.

Three key Republicans, however, received no such call out and were clearly missing from the audience: Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine, his cousin Attorney General Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Jon Husted.

History is full of epic battles and epic leaders: Grant vs Lee in Virginia, Montgomery and Rommel in [...]

Kasich’s team at the Ohio Department of Transportation recently announced that only $100 million a year will be available to fund new construction projects approved by Ohio’s Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC). As a result, vital road work around the state is being delayed for years and, in some cases, decades.

As we’ve mentioned before, the previous administration budgeted $317 million in fiscal year 2011 while the Kasich budget appropriates just $60 million in Fiscal 2012 and $123 million in Fiscal 2013 out of a $5.5 billion two-year budget.

Kasich’s strategy is clear: cut the crap out of [...]

According to the US Census Bureau, the median household income for Ohioans is $47,358. The national median is slightly higher: $51,914. (Note: per-capita income is $27,334)

Ohio’s Corrections Officers, however, start out making $34,008 per year and they max out at $41,350 with step increases.

You read that right: The MAXIMUM salary of an Ohio corrections officer is 20% below the national median household income.

The men and women who work at Ohio’s prisons are not, by any stretch of the imagination, overpaid. And considering the work they do, it would be very easy to make the [...]

The Equal Rights Amendment passed Congress in 1972 and went to the states for ratification. The amendment simply says:

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification

Simple. To the point. Women have the same rights as men and Congress can pass laws to guarantee they do. Seems pretty basic. [...]

Yesterday Modern wrote about the many things Josh Mandel has been doing instead of attending to his job as Treasurer of Ohio, and the very funny, and somewhat sad, “Top Bottom Review” document his office released trying to cover for their absentee boss.

In case you haven’t been following the story, the Ohio Democratic Party submitted a record request for Treasurer Mandel’s schedules, and the resulting documents were pretty damning: showing Mandel’s calendar with a lot of blank spaces and very few meetings. The results pretty much proved what Ohio’s Democrats have been saying for months: Mandel has [...]