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Early Voting Underway For May Primary
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state’s elections chief is reminding Ohio residents that early voting is underway in the state’s spring election.Secretary of State Jon Husted says absentee voting in May 2 primary and special elections began April 4 and continues through the weekend before Election Day.The Republican official says voters in 74 of Ohio’s… Read More
Ohio Among Worst In Nursing Home Inspections
CLEVELAND (AP) — A newspaper reports that Ohio is among the U.S. states with the worst records for keeping up with nursing home inspections. The Plain Dealer of Cleveland cites records it obtained showing that a key deadline for inspecting nursing homes hasn’t been met since fiscal year 2011. It says Ohio is the fourth-worst… Read More
Ohio University Continues to Support its International Community
There are more than 20,000 students enrolled at Ohio University’s Athens campus. Nearly 88 percent of that enrollment consists of students native to the state of Ohio. The remaining twelve percent includes primarily students from around the Midwest and Appalachia, but seven percent of those students come to Ohio from outside the country, some never… Read More
Invisible Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
Appalachia is the area that stretches from southern New York to northern Mississippi. However, some of the poorest counties in Appalachia are in Southeastern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky. In 2014, the number of deaths due to opioid overdose in Kentucky was 121. That number spiked up in 2015 to a total of 420 deaths. The… Read More