CLEVELAND - Ohio lawmakers are forging ahead on a plan to use unclaimed funds to provide a $600 million grant for a new Cleveland Browns stadium in Brook Park.
The proposal survived compromise talks to make it into the final draft of the state's two-year budget bill, said Rep. Brian Stewart, an Ashville Republican who leads the House Finance Committee. Lawmakers expect to release the mammoth spending bill late Tuesday and to vote on it as soon as Wednesday.
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: Ohio lawmakers settle on unclaimed funds to put $600M into new Browns stadiumTue, Jun 24, 2025
MARIETTA - Local residents, oil and gas well owners and township trustees gathered Monday at the Warren Community Water and Sewer Association office for a discussion with a state representative from northern Ohio about community concerns regarding brine injection wells, carbon capture legislation and threats those technologies may pose to water safety and public health in Washington County.
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: Surface Tension: Residents express injection well concerns at Warren water meetingTue, May 20, 2025
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - There are about 180,000 class II injection wells in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
These are underground storage wells for the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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: Warren officials, residents worry about impacts of injection wellsTue, May 20, 2025
A ribbon cutting was held March 27th to celebrate the grand opening of HELP Foundation's newly expanded and renovated facility in Lakewood.
HELP provides residential, day support, vocation and summer education programs to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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: HELP Foundation cuts ribbon on Lakewood facility's $2 million renovationMon, Apr 7, 2025