“Ohio” on The Daily Caller

The battle over collective bargaining rights continues Tuesday when Ohio voters go to the polls to decide whether or not to repeal Senate Bill 5, a law limiting collective bargaining rights for union workers. (more)

A former Ohio high school teacher was convicted Thursday of having sex with five students, some of them football players, after an insanity defense that argued the students took advantage of her. (more)

During a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Obama said that the U.S. economy is in trouble, and that “we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will.” The president pushed hard against what he sees as a do-nothing Congress, explaining what he planned to do about mortgages and student loans without the legislative branch’s say-so. On “The Laura Ingraham Show” Thursday, Speaker of the House John Boehner pushed back. (more)

Despite an upside down approval rating, President Barack Obama leads the Republican frontrunners in the crucial swing state of Ohio. (more)

SACO — Joe LoCicero’s 1990 Honda Accord slipped into a parking spot in front of City Hall with its engine purring, much as it did two decades ago after it rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio. (more)

In the crucial battleground state of Ohio, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be the only Republican candidate who can beat President Barack Obama, despite the president’s sinking popularity in the state. (more)

Congressman Jim Jordan, the outspoken chairman of the Republican Study Committee, says the GOP must find the discipline to fix America’s fiscal crisis before time runs out. (more)

In Ohio — a swing state expected to be crucial for winning the presidency in 2012 — President Barack Obama faces his lowest approval rating ever, and runs neck and neck with Republican frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. (more)

President Barack Obama is using an Ohio bridge and cement-plant today as stages for his campaign criticism of the Republicans’ opposition to his job plan, but the local media is skeptical and the GOP is blaming his policies for eliminating cement plant jobs. (more)

CLEVELAND (AP) — U.S. Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur jumped into re-election campaigns in the same newly redrawn congressional district across northern Ohio on Wednesday, setting up a primary fight next year between two veteran Democratic incumbents. (more)

The president is back in the White House after his morning trip to Richmond, Va., where he held a rally to promote his $474 billion Stimulus-2 bill. Next week, he plans to continue his promotion tour with Air Force One trips to Ohio and North Carolina. All three are swing-states in the 2012 election. (more)

King Electrical Services owner John King was shot by a person who appears to be from one of the many unions who have targeted his workers, Toledo News Channel 11 WTOL reports.  King is the largest non-union electrical contractor company in the area of southeastern Michigan near the Ohio border. (more)

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s open defiance of Speaker John Boehner’s efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe seat in next year’s election. (more)

Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released the first installment in a new video investigation Monday morning, this one focused on Medicaid fraud. The first video in the series shows government employees in Ohio assisting two men who have described themselves as Russian drug smugglers with applications for Medicaid. (more)

Teenagers who want a driver’s license would first have to complete a CPR-training course under a bill introduced yesterday by a legislator from Franklin County. (more)

Ohio-based groups have issued yet another challenge to Obamacare’s constitutionality. (more)

Not all taxes are alike: some have little impact on the economy while others can be quite disruptive and hamper growth and investment. Capital gains taxes fall in the latter category. (more)

During the 2010 election season, Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine had five words written on the whiteboard in his office: “taxes,” “spending,” “jobs,” “debt” and “deficit.” (more)

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Faced with a dismal new jobs report, President Barack Obama said Friday that the economy “is taking a while to mend” and faces “bumps on the road to recovery.” But at an event to celebrate the resurgence of the auto industry he made no mention of the dour economic news that threatened to obscure his optimistic message. (more)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s top elections official says it appears that thousands of voters considered “active” are anything but. (more)