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2004 General Assembly elections shaping around Ohio CCW issue

11:47am Saturday, January 03, 2004

Term limits help to change Statehouse 01/03/04 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus- Taxes, term limits and debate over concealed weapons could help reshape the Ohio General Assembly after the March 2 primary. Friday was the date for candidates to file for all 99 Ohio House seats and the 16 even-numbered Senate seats that will be on the ballot this year. Nine representatives and seven senators will...

Columbus: Suspect Shot In Home Invasion Attempt

2:55pm Friday, January 02, 2004

Two Other Robbers Are In Custody January 2, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two home invasion suspects were in custody and another was hospitalized Friday morning following a shooting during their attempted invasion, NewsChannel 4 reported. The three robbers broke into a woman's house on North Roys Avenue, but police said the woman got a gun and fired at them. A robber who was hit showed up several blocks...

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Ohio newspaper: 2003 a deadly year

2:40pm Friday, January 02, 2004

January 1, 2004 Mansfield News Journal MANSFIELD -- Seven people were killed in the city in 2003, the highest number since the police department began keeping computerized crime records in 1988. Last year, the total was six, up from just two in 2001. The reason for the high number, Mansfield police Chief Phil Messer said, is both straightforward and discouraging. "Unfortunately, it's been a...

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Cleveland: 252 police to lose jobs on Monday

1:29pm Friday, January 02, 2004

01/01/04 Cleveland Plain Dealer (edited for space- click here to read the entire story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer) Mayor Jane Campbell will cut $21 million from the 2004 police budget, mostly by eliminating 263 positions. Five of the officers, however, are being transferred to jobs in other departments, and six others were due to retire. The layoffs, which take effect Monday, will leave the...

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Will they finish the job? Legislators about to return to Columbus.

3:27pm Thursday, January 01, 2004

FLASHBACK: Senate President Doug White (R – 14th District) speaking at a March 2003 US Sportsmen Alliance legislative reception said: "I am a strong proponent of the right to carry. I do not own a gun. I served in Uncle Sam’s Army where I used a sidearm and the M-14. I understand the proper use of a firearm and the power of a firearm. I absolutely and totally, to the bottom of my soul, understand...

Tale of Two Cities: Dayton store owner killed; Hartford robbers jailed

2:52pm Thursday, January 01, 2004

Trotwood man shot, killed in robbery DAYTON | A 46-year-old Trotwood man was shot and killed during a robbery as the man closed up his Dayton business on New Year's Eve, according to Dayton police. The man and his adult son were closing Gina's Party Store, 3025 Salem Ave., around 10:50 p.m. when the man was accosted in the parking lot by a male wearing a blue stocking cap, according to Dayton...

OFCC Supporter: Excuse for public records demands left twisting in the wind

2:33pm Thursday, January 01, 2004

The following was submitted by OFCC Supporter Paul Barnett. (In Lee Leonard's recent Columbus Dispatch story on the delay of Ohio CCW, Governor Taft's spokesperson, Orest) Holubec said records show that more than 400 felons received permits in Texas. "We want to avoid that in Ohio," he said, "and the easiest way to avoid it is to allow the sun to shine on the records." I'm getting tired of this...

State Senator tries to turn CCW debate into class warfare battle

7:03pm Wednesday, December 31, 2003

When Dan Williamson broke the story that Senator White admitted he had the votes to override a Taft veto on HB12 back on November 27 , we had hope that he was one of the more objective reporters in Ohio. But in this, his latest story on the subject, it's more of what we've come to expect from Ohio's liberal media elite. It's tough to know where to begin with this piece. At times, it reads more as...