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• The Spectrum All-Star Roundtable on “Fracking” and Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients - The all-star roundtable discussed the environmental and tax issues surrounding oil and gas being debated at the Statehouse as well as drug testing welfare recipients.  You can watch below. Continue reading → May 21, 2012 1:00pm
• Focus on fiscal discipline and reform, not a return to spending  - The Ohio Senate made a good move last week.  It removed a provision from one of Gov. Kasich’s “Mid-Biennium Review” bills, House Bill 487, that had been inserted by the Ohio House. That provision would have forced the General Assembly … Continue reading → May 21, 2012 8:50am
• Digital Learning: the Future of Education? - Yesterday I attended a tremendous event, hosted by several major organizations involved in education reform including the Thomas Fordham Foundation, KnowledgeWorks and the Nord Family Foundation, on “Digital Learning”: The Future of Schooling. Among the speakers were the head of … Continue reading → May 18, 2012 1:33pm
• Ohio’s Pension Choice: Status Quo or Real Reform? - "The question Ohio faces on pension reform is simple: Do we want to continue to avoid difficult issues in the hope that a devastating crisis never comes, or do we want to act now to reform the system before a crisis can develop?" Continue reading → May 17, 2012 4:00pm
• Cincinnati Coming to Grips with Pension Costs - With the public pension reform debate heating up in the Statehouse, it’s fitting timing for another pension crisis to arise—this time, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati’s situation is unique. Unlike Ohio’s other municipalities, Cincinnati city employees do not participate in one of … Continue reading → May 16, 2012 11:00am

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