Franklin County Commissioners have approved a 350 thousand dollar contract to purchase kits to help civilians handle injuries from mass shootings or other violent attacks.
Columbus City Council last night approved spending 280 thousand dollars to fund what the panel says are non-partisan voter ads alerting the public about early voting times and other information.
Franklin County Commissioners Tuesday approved a plan to bring underpass lighting, sculptures, and new landscaping to the West Broad Street interchange at I-270.
Franklin County residents will have to pay more to register their vehicles, with the additional revenue to be used to pay for bridge and road maintenance.
Franklin County residents may have to pay more to register their vehicles, with the additional revenue to be used to pay for bridge and road maintenance.
Franklin County Commissioners yesterday voted to make the temporary county sales tax permanent. The tax was enacted in 2013 to build a county jail and fund other programs.
Even before Thursday's announcement that state officials will trim the next two-year state budget by 800 million dollars, Ohio counties have been preparing for cuts related to the money they receive from the Medicaid Managed Care sales tax.
Democrats won five of the six contested Franklin County seats on the ballot Tuesday - two county commission seats, the treasurer, the clerk of courts, and the recorder.
Franklin County Commissioners plan to hire University of Wisconsin researchers to review procedures at the county dog shelter following the distemper outbreak in September that forced officials to euthanize 100 canines.
Franklin County Commissioners today are expected to accept a 171 thousand dollar legal settlement with Norfolk Southern Railroad for the train derailment in Weinland Park in July of 2012.
