He’s doing the people’s business, so why does Matt Huffman think he can shroud his work in secrecy? Today in OhioCLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman argues a judge can’t force him to answer lawyers’ questions about which private school lobbyists he speaks to outside of legislative chambers.Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with editorial board member Lisa Garvin, City Hall reporter Courtney Astolfi and content director Laura Johnston.
We love dogs on this podcast, so let’s talk high up about the latest round of lawsuits against Petland, accused to selling sick puppies to unsuspecting people? It won’t be Ohio’s dog whistle transgender law that’s on the docket, but Ohio’s law could be affected by a U.S. Supreme Court case next year. What’s at stake?
some cabal that meets in secret and issues edicts. This is our stuff. He works for us. The idea that he thinks he should be able to operate in complete secrecy. Well, we know why they want to do this because every time we peel the onion in the HB6 case, we see how corrupt the state has been and how they’re all in everybody’s pocket. But this is preposterous on its face. He is our person.
We love dogs on this podcast, so let’s talk high up about the latest round of lawsuits against Petland, which is accused of selling sick puppies to unsuspecting people. Laura.So Jake Zuckerman broke the story a few months back and now it’s growing because two more couples have filed lawsuits in the last week against Petland. That’s the Chillacothe based international chain of pet stores and basically the only national pet store that is still selling puppies.
trying to find plaintiffs and backing the lawsuits to burden the legal system to generate bad press for Petland and add pressure for a state law that we’ve talked about before that would give cities the right to ban retailers like Petland from operating in their borders, which is a whole other issue that the cities don’t right now have home rule rights to ban this kind of business.We should point out that most pet store companies have gotten out of this business for this very reason.
but there’s this extended hiring freeze going on. Nine academic programs were axed in February, so they’ve got to navigate their next chapter and we’ll see how Tressel guides it.All right, you’re listening to Today in Ohio. Courtney will stay with you. We don’t have an Ohio angle on this one, but clearly it affects Ohio. What is the disturbing trend in deaths involving alcohol?These numbers we got from KFF, a health policy and research nonprofit organization, are really quite stunning.
starting in 2018 and then skipped 2020 because of COVID, and it’s been successful every year, he says he gave them the insurance when he postponed. Now, why you would do that when you postponed, I don’t really know. It seems like it’s a moot point, but we don’t have any more information about rescheduling this other than the Coast Guard did say because it was already approved as an event.I don’t know anything about the sponsors because there’s a whole lot of groups that sponsor this.
there was so there was a truck driver, small African country immigrant. He was from Eritrea. He was he’s from Dallas, but he was making a delivery to an Aldi warehouse nearby and then went to the bar that night. And that’s where he ran into these two cops. A bartender later told police that truck driver was polite. He was having a good time with other customers at the bar. And then the two officers started getting aggressive with him and they started accusing him of being an illegal immigrant.
suspects and allegations of a dubge abduction assault unlawful restraint Against this truck driver. So we’ve got to see what if any criminal repercussions are there but Things are already starting to fall apart with their day jobsYeah, the only problem was this was being investigated as a state crime in April and the FBI came in, took it over and there’s been nothing since. And you would hate to see this fall apart on the federal level.