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COLUMBUS — Cuyahoga County State Reps. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake), Phillip M. Robinson (D-Solon), Sean Patrick Brennan (Parma) and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne hosted a press conference Tuesday in Cuyahoga County addressing state-mandated property valuation changes and solutions to growing concerns over rising property taxes for Ohio homeowners.
COLUMBUS — House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) and Senate Democratic Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood) today sent a letter to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost detailing his blatant disregard for the legal rights of the minority members of the Ohio Ballot Board— Rep. Terrence Upchurch (D-Cleveland) and Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) —who broke with the majority of Ballot Board members and voted against Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s deceptive and misleading ballot summary language for the Citizens Not Politicians constitutional amendment, Issue 1.
COLUMBUS — House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) today made the following statement concerning the Franklin County Court’s preliminary injunction regarding Ohio’s 24-hour waiting law:
COLUMBUS — Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington), Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) and Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna) today announced the Controlling Board’s approval of over $4.66M to support the operations of the State Board of Education.
COLUMBUS — House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) and State Rep. Terrence Upchurch (D-Cleveland) today released the following statements after Friday’s Ballot Board meeting, where Republicans passed ballot language that intends to deceive and mislead voters on the Citizens Not Politicians anti-gerrymandering amendment:
COLUMBUS — In a letter sent today to Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) Chair Jenifer French, State Rep. Casey Weinstein (D-Hudson) and other House Democrats called on the PUCO to take immediate action to address the reliability of Ohio's power grid in light of recent severe weather events that have caused widespread outages.
COLUMBUS – House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington), State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) and State Rep. Elgin Rogers (D-Toledo) and chair of Ohio Democratic Women’s Legislative Caucus State Rep. Munira Abdullahi (D-Columbus) today honored the life and legacy of Marigene Valiquette, a Toledo Democrat who served in both the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate for 24 straight years, setting a record for the longest serving female legislator in state history.
COLUMBUS – State Rep. Michael J. Skindell (D-Lakewood) today joined the Cuyahoga County House and Senate Delegation, as well as Rep. Daniel P. Troy (D-Willowick) in Lake County and Rep. Joe Miller (D-Amherst) in Lorain County to urgently request Governor DeWine to issue a proclamation declaring a state of emergency across Cuyahoga, Lake, and Lorain Counties which were impacted by a severe weather system on Tuesday, August 6th, 2024.
COLUMBUS — House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) today released the following statement concerning the ruling by Republican Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Holbrook to uphold House Bill (HB) 68:
COLUMBUS – State Rep. Lauren McNally (D-Youngstown) today announced $40,000 in funding from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s (DEW) Grow Ohio Grant Program to support West Branch Local Schools in expanding its farm to table work-based learning program.