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That Ohio absentee ballot request form you got in the mail is legit: The Wake Up for Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024
Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Once, Ohioans needed a reason to vote early. Since the state changed the rules in 2005 to allow any voter to cast a ballot by mail or early at a county Board of Elections building, more and more Ohioans have embraced the idea. Ohioans cast 1.9 million absentee ballots in 2016 and 3.5 million in 2020, the last two presidential elections.
A rural veteran firefighter's take on Ohio’s volunteer shortage
Ohio has nearly 400 vacant volunteer firefighter positions, according to job listings compiled by Make Me A Firefighter. Governor Mike DeWine announced last week that the state is turning up the heat on its recruitment campaign. It’s offering free training classes for volunteer firefighters and will begin airing 30-second public service announcements across the state. They’ll share the stories of volunteer firefighters and why they choose to be their community’s emergency responders.
5 separate lottery tickets hit jackpot in Ohio Lottery's Rolling Cash 5: See where all the winning tickets were sold
CLEVELAND — It was a lucky night for five people after the Ohio Lottery says they hit the Rolling Cash 5 jackpot by matching all the numbers in Monday’s drawing. The Ohio Lottery says the five winners will take home $26,000 each after getting their share of the $130,000 jackpot.
Area unions hold press conference to show support for Sherrod Brown
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - With concerns for Ohio's labor force, local unions came out today against Bernie Moreno. Representatives from UAW Local 1219, Lima Troy Area CAP Council, and the United Steelworkers are speaking out about their concerns with the lack of respect they say Moreno has for Ohio workers. With the court actions against him for not paying earned overtime to his own employees and the NBC news report that he has bought land to get back into the auto sales businesses, these laborers say that's not what Ohio needs. They say Senator Sherrod Brown has supported them in the past and will continue to support them when he is re-elected.
Free COVID-19 tests available by mail again
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Americans once again will be able to get free COVID-19 test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September, the federal government has announced. Households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the program reopens, according to the website COVIDtests.gov.
Congresswomen press FDA on why a proposal to ban hair-straightening chemicals is delayed
Two U.S. House members who first pushed the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to investigate the health risks of hair straighteners used primarily by Black women are now asking the agency why it has twice delayed its target date to propose a ban on products containing formaldehyde, which studies link to increased rates of cancer.
Wood County Commission approves lease for new Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department location
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission approved the lease for the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department to move into St. Joseph’s Landing during its Thursday meeting. The commission unanimously approved the final lease agreement which has been worked on for the past month. St. Joseph’s Landing Building Manager Jon...
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