
When I first was elected to the Ohio House in 1983, the Medicaid budget in the state was $3 billion. Since that time it has grown faster than the rate of inflation and is now $26 billion. Medicaid gets more than primary and secondary education and takes up nearly 40 percent of the state’s operating budget.
Representative Jim Buchy (R-Greenville) announced that the Ohio House of Representatives today passed Amended Substitute Senate Bill 21, legislation to revise the requirements for reading teachers under the Third-Grade Reading Guarantee.
The Ohio House of Representatives made some significant changes to the governor’s original school funding plan, which in many ways will benefit the schools in the 84th House District. While I commend the governor for his ideas and leadership, the original version was not as friendly as it could have been—or should have been—to area schools.
Once again it is May and many people around Grand Lake St. Marys have the recurring question on their mind: Will the lake have toxic algal blooms again this year and how bad will they be?
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