For first time, Ohio Supreme Court candidates' party labels will be on ballots. Thomas Suddes questions who that will favor.
The hullabaloo over the governorship and Senate seat may mask the importance to Ohioans of the Brunner-Kennedy, DeWine-Zayas, and Fischer-Jamison contests. That’d be a mistake, because the high court referees so many facets of voters’ and policyholders’ and consumers’ lives – and on some days, the justices are all that stand between an out-of-control legislature and the Ohio Constitution.On the management front, there’s good news for Mike DeWine’s administration.
Fitch Ratings, one of three prominent debt-rating agencies, has boosted Ohio’s “long-term Issuer Default Rating to AAA from AA+ … the highest (such} rating … by one of three main rating agencies since 1979” – that is, in 43 years. That cuts the state’s borrowing costs and is a key indicator of solid work by DeWine and the state budget office.
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University.
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