The Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article yesterday exposing millions of dollars in waste at Ohio’s nursing homes. It seems that nursing homes are approving care for patients who do not need it and who do not qualify for it, and the are sticking taxpayers with the bill through the Medicaid program:
Some Cuyahoga County nursing [...]

Today, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page weighed in on Attorney General Marc Dann’s apparent coordination with a teachers’ union to attack Ohio’s charter schools. The issue was first uncovered by the Columbus Dispatch. Dann’s actions drew immediate criticism from education reform groups. Read our previous post here.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
October [...]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a story today about Governor Strickland’s thinly-veiled ultimatum to mortgage lenders:
Strickland urges mortgage firms to aid homeowners
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Mark Rollenhagen
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief
Columbus — With 200,000 Ohioans facing ballooning monthly house payments over the next year, Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday asked mortgage companies to work harder to prevent [...]

This morning’s Wall Street Journal focuses attention on Ohio’s hyper-aggressive new attorney general. In the story, Buckeye Institute President David Hansen points out that an anti-business environment is the last thing Ohioans need.
“The big problem is that we have a dismal economy,” says David Hansen, president of the conservative think tank the Buckeye Institute, [...]

As the debate heats up over Gov. Ted Strickland’s energy plan, Ohio’s largest utility has doubts. However, some trade associations and organized labor groups are supportive.
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Friday, October 5, 2007 4:17 AM
Utilities rip Strickland’s plan
Biggest companies say competition exists for energy deregulation
By Paul Wilson
Electricity customers in Ohio could face much higher [...]

After a recent exposé in the Columbus Dispatch, the Center for Education Reform and the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools expressed concern over Attorney General Marc Dann’s coordination with the politically powerful Ohio Education Association (OEA) in shutting down charter schools.
From the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools:
Ohio Alliance files public records [...]

Lawyers’ paperwork on limiting campaign contributions arrives late
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Julie Carr Smyth
Associated Press
Columbus- Well over half the lawyers required to limit their campaign contributions to Attorney General Marc Dann in order to qualify for state work didn’t fill out the required paperwork until this month, long after the office began doling out contracts, according [...]