The $6 billion dollar story from Ohio’s lame duck lawmakers: Today in Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Common Meeting handed a mammoth spending invoice on the tail finish of its marathon session, doling out practically $6 billion of largely federal funds to cap off the biennial legislative session.

We’re speaking about what handed last-minute in lame duck on At the moment in Ohio.

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The Legislature did move extra issues of their lame duck session than we knew about in yesterday’s dialogue, but it surely nonetheless was not the wild and loopy lame duck session of previous years. You might debate execs and cons for many of what they handed. And we are going to. Let’s begin with the massive $6 billion spending invoice. What’s in it?

Anybody who drives is aware of the roads are stuffed with individuals who textual content when drive. What number of occasions have you ever been caught at a crimson mild as a result of the driving force on the entrance of the road is entranced by texting? The lame duck legislature is taking purpose at these drivers.

One other shock from the lame duck session is Erin’s Legislation. It handed. What does it do?

We have now talked many a time on this podcast about unemployment fraud and the way Ohio has failed to manage it. Lawmakers took a shot at that, too. How?

As attention-grabbing as what handed within the lame duck session is what didn’t. What are the massive ones?

A bunch of federal stimulus cash is headed to Northeast Ohio for firefighters and paramedics, however one metropolis is getting the lion’s share. Which one?

Cleveland and Cuyahoga County made information this 12 months with controversial proposals to assist folks looking for abortions through the use of tax {dollars} to pay for journey to states the place the process is authorized. We requested Northeast Ohioans what they consider that concept. What did they inform us?

We’ve recognized for years that an excellent reckoning is coming for the Better Cleveland Regional Transit Authority – in the necessity to exchange its rail fleet. How a lot do they want, and the way a lot have they raised?

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