U.S. District Court Agrees with AG Yost that Federal Tax Mandate is Unconstitutional

On: By: Roxie Bell

 

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio has ruled that the federal government cannot tie an unconstitutionally ambiguous condition to Ohio’s COVID-19 stimulus funding, vindicating the claim made by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

Yost sought a preliminary injunction in March to bar enforcement of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act’s “Tax Mandate,” which would send Ohio $5.4 billion worth of badly needed federal funds only if the state agreed not to use the money, directly or indirectly, to offset tax cuts or credits.… Read full story

Composing Thoughts: Mental Handwriting Produces Brain Activity That can be Turned Into Text

On: By: Roxie Bell

NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded project could help people with paralysis to communicate.

Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore the ability to communicate in people with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This system has the potential to work more quickly than previous BCIs, and it does so by tapping into one of the oldest means of communications we have — handwriting.… Read full story

Brown Urges Senate Colleagues to Support Overturning OCC’s Trump-era Rule Encouraging Predatory Rent-a-Bank Schemes

On: By: Roxie Bell

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 11, 2021 – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today headed to the Senate floor to urge his colleagues to support his legislation to repeal the Trump Administration’s so-called True Lender Rule through the Congressional Review Act.… Read full story

Hazardous Weather Outlook

On: By: Roxie Bell 

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
801 AM EDT Wed May 12 2021

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-131215-
Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-
Ashtabula Inland-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-
Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-
Holmes-Knox-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-Southern Erie-
801 AM EDT Wed May 12 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio, northeast
Ohio, northwest Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.
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Frost Advisory

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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
1218 PM EDT Tue May 11 2021

OHZ003-006-008-010-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-120030-
/O.NEW.KCLE.FR.Y.0007.210512T0600Z-210512T1200Z/
Lucas-Wood-Sandusky-Lorain-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-
Portage-Trumbull-Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-
Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox-
Including the cities of Toledo, Bowling Green, Perrysburg,
Fremont, Bellevue, Clyde, Lorain, Elyria, North Ridgeville,
Avon Lake, Findlay, Tiffin, Fostoria, Norwalk, Willard,
Brunswick, Medina, Wadsworth, Akron, Kent, Aurora, Streetsboro,
Ravenna, Warren, Niles, Upper Sandusky, Carey, Bucyrus, Galion,
Crestline, Mansfield, Ashland, Wooster, Orrville, Rittman,
Canton, Massillon, Alliance, Youngstown, Boardman, Austintown,
Marion, Mount Gilead, Cardington, Millersburg, Killbuck,
and Mount Vernon
1218 PM EDT Tue May 11 2021

...FROST
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