Ohio on Tuesday November 03, 2009

OH: Survey rates Ohio near top
By Dan Gearino, The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio's business climate is among the best in the country, according to an annual survey by Site Selection magazine, which ranked the state fourth.
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OH: President Obama quietly signs landmark Great Lakes cleanup bill
By Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Without fanfare, President Barack Obama has OK'd a large cash infusion to help clean up the Great Lakes, quietly signing a bill that was years in the making and marks a rare bipartisan milestone.
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OH: Nearly 70,000 used early voting
By Jessica Brown, The Cincinnati Enquirer
That's nearly twice the number of early voters than in 2007, the last election in which only local issues and candidates were on the ballot.
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OH: Issue 2 vote might not lasso a resolution on livestock
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
An increasingly heated political battle over amending the Ohio Constitution to add a livestock-care standards board might not end when the ballots are counted early Wednesday morning.
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OH: H1N1 vaccine reaches Ohio at faster pace
By Jim Provance, Toledo Blade
The pace at which vaccines for the swine flu virus is reaching Ohio is picking up, with the state's latest allotment of 389,500 expected to begin arriving at local boards of health as early as Tuesday.
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OH: Tuesday's voter -- Older, whiter
By Gregory Korte, The Cincinnati Enquirer
The average age of a southwestern Ohio voter in last year's presidential election was 50. In local elections two years ago, it was about 60.
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OH: DeRolph joins state school funding advisory council
By Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch
Eighteen years after he was selected as the lead plaintiff in a historic school-funding lawsuit against the state, Nathan DeRolph is now part of the panel designed to keep Ohio's new funding system on course.
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OK: As more H1N1 vaccine comes, priorities grow in Oklahoma City
By Susan Simpson, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
About 93,100 doses of shots and nasal spray are expected this week for distribution to county health departments and some health care providers.
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OH: Ohio shaping up as battleground in 2010
By Don Gonyea, National Public Radio (Audio)
Leading up to Election Day on Tuesday, the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, along with New York's 23rd Congressional District, are getting most of the attention.
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Spending limits, gambling top&nbsp;fiscal 2009 ballot measures
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer

The national spotlight may be focused Nov. 3 on elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, but voters elsewhere could take action to profoundly change the way their states get and spend taxpayers’ money.
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