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Three of the area’s sheriffs lost re-election earlier this year to men who at the time were working as their deputies. Now, the three incoming sheriffs are preparing to begin their terms on Monday, and none of the defeated sheriffs are sticking around long to see what they might do.
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I recently compiled a spreadsheet of every vote taken by the Ohio House of Representatives in 2015. It was extremely tedious and time-consuming, so hopefully someone else out there who needs this information can benefit from downloading my data set here rather than having to sort through all those session journals themselves.
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The case of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who died a day after being shot twice by a Cleveland police officer, is not as simple as it seems, especially during a time when the public is becoming increasingly skeptical of law enforcement.
Cases of black men who have been killed by police officers have become increasingly prominent recently: A Beavercreek police officer shot and killed John Crawford III in a Walmart parking lot near Dayton, Eric Garner was strangled to death by a New York police officer and Walter Scott was shot in the back of the head by an officer in South Carolina.
They received media attention, sparked heated social movements and share one key characteristic with Rice’s case: they were all caught on video.
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Some taxpayers may have to take a quiz to prove their identity to receive a tax return as part of a new screening system implemented by The Ohio Department of Taxation.
The four-question multiple choice quiz is the most noticeable of the changes made to cut down on tax return fraud and identity theft, according to Ohio Department of Taxation Communications Director Gary Gudmundson.
“We felt that we really had to take these extra measures to protect taxpayer dollars,” Gudmundson said. “[This] doubles the assurances that refunds are going out to the right people and not criminals.”
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