By Stephanie Warsmith from the Jan. 30 Akron Beacon Journal

Former President Bill Clinton gives Ohio credit for getting him into the White House.

And now, he said Tuesday, the state can do the same for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Full Article.

From the release on the Ohio ACLU web site:

The American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a motion for preliminary injunction today asking Judge Kathleen O’Malley of the Federal Court of the Northern District of Ohio to prevent Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections from using balloting technology that does not give notice to voters of problems with their ballot. The motion follows a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on January 17, 2008 challenging technology that does not allow the voter to verify their ballot is filled out correctly.

Read the entire Ohio ACLU statement.

From the Jan. 29 Akron Beacon Journal

The Summit County Board of Elections is holding open voter registration from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday at various locations throughout Summit County. Full Article.

By Lydia Esparra from Jan. 29 on WKYC.com

Former President Bill Clinton will visit the Cleveland-area Tuesday for a fundraiser for his wife's campaign.

His first stop is an event with Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones at the Tri-C Eastern Campus beginning at 3:15 p.m. This event is open to the public and free. Full Article.

From the Jan. 29 Lorain Morning Journal

The bang from the explosion in mortgage foreclosures is louder in Lorain County than most anyplace else in the United States.

In fact, this region is the sixth most at-risk place in the nation for foreclosures, according to Sen. Sherrod Brown's office. Full Article.

By Sabrina Eaton from the Jan. 29 Cleveland Plain Dealer

After promising to mark President Bush's final State of the Union speech by introducing articles of impeachment against Bush, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich postponed the effort. Full Article.

From the Jan. 27 Canton Repository

"If we do really and truly experience a recession, why do we have a rainy-day fund if this is not the thing we would be using it for?"

Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering Full Article.

By Julie Carr Smyth, the Associated Press, from the Jan. 27 Columbus Dispatch

Gov. Ted Strickland returned gifts of poinsettias at Christmas.

In the year since Strickland tightened ethics rules, more than 1,200 state government employees, or about 98 percent of those required, also have completed ethics training, according to records compiled by the administration for the Associated Press. Full Article.

By Reginald Fields from the Jan. 27 Cleveland Plain Dealer

Ohio Supreme Court justices found their stride again in 2007, churning out written opinions on average in five months, a Plain Dealer analysis found. Full Article.

By Mhari Saito from the Jan. 26 on Weekend America

No one really wants to spend part of their weekend in a city hall basement with 19 strangers doing nothing for an hour. But that's just what I found when I walked into such a meeting room recently in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Full Article.