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The battle to balance the budget without $850 million in planned slots revenue rages on, and a final truce may not be as close as some had hoped. Senate president Bill Harris (R-Ashland) and Senate president pro-tem Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond) say they're ready to support the governor's plan to take back the 4.2% income tax cut that went into effect in January, but they are adamant about getting through some reforms for state construction projects and prison sentencing. Budget director Pari Sabety says if the legislature doesn't get the tax cut rollback passed by the end of the year, they will have to start talking about it as a tax increase. And Gov. Strickland says the delay in getting the proposal he put forward in September through is "intolerable" and that "construction reform is off the table".
Next week, the state may make history with a brand-new, never tested way of putting condemned inmates to death, with a single drug instead of a multi-drug mix. As prison officials are preparing for this major shift in death penalty protocol, they opened up the doors to the place at the state's maximum security prison where executions take place - the so-called "death house". Prisons department spokesperson Julie Walburn takes us on a tour.
We close this week with images from this year's holiday lighting public party at the Statehouse.
Next week, the state may make history with a brand-new, never tested way of putting condemned inmates to death, with a single drug instead of a multi-drug mix. As prison officials are preparing for this major shift in death penalty protocol, they opened up the doors to the place at the state's maximum security prison where executions take place - the so-called "death house". Prisons department spokesperson Julie Walburn takes us on a tour.
We close this week with images from this year's holiday lighting public party at the Statehouse.
December 4, 2009