Tagged: Ohio

Advocates for the federal health care law are celebrating the start of the countdown toward October 1 of next year, when 1.5 million uninsured Ohioans can start shopping a health insurance marketplace called an exchange. But there’s still a lot of uncertainty about who will set up and run that exchange.

A package of bills that shore up Ohio's five public pension funds with increased premiums, higher retirement ages and other changes is set to clear the Ohio Legislature.

The Ohio House and Senate plan floor votes on the proposals Wednesday.

Changes will affect some 1.7 million retirees and future retirees and their families who are covered by the five funds. Those are the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System, State Teachers Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.

Republican Mitt Romney is bringing his presidential campaign back to the battleground state of Ohio.

The former Massachusetts governor will be in northwest Ohio today for a fundraiser in Toledo, before speaking at a town hall meeting at the Bowling Green Community Center.

It's a busy campaign week in Ohio. President Barack Obama was in Cincinnati on Monday and Vice President Joe Biden will return tomorrow with a visit to a labor union in Columbus.