CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 18 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2025: Columbus, OH - Today, the ACLU of Ohio, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and others sent a letter to Ohio's 88 county sheriffs outlining the dangers of carrying out President-elect Trump's inhumane immigration policies. With Inauguration Day just around the corner, it's expected that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will attempt to enlist state and local law enforc  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Jan. 17, 2025 NAVY Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $280,418,928 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost type modification to previously awarded contract N00024-23-C-5101 for combat systems engineering efforts of the planned modernization and new combat system capabilities selection for international partner Canadian Royal Navy   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (TNSFR) -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a decision to reinstate Ohio's Air Nuisance Rule (ANR) as part of the state's implementation plan, correcting a previous ruling from November 2020 that removed it. This action follows a February 2023 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which remanded EPA's removal of the ANR back to the agency for further review. The EPA initially concluded that its earlier action was in error, as it f  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland issued the following white paper (No. 25-01) on January 6, 2025, by Michael D. Bordo and Edward S. Prescott entitled "Federal Reserve Structure, Economic Ideas, and Banking Policy During the "Quiet Period" in Banking." Here are excerpts: * * * We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on banking policy in the 1950s and 1960s. We document  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland issued the following white paper (No. 25-02) on January 9, 2025, by Baris Kaymak entitled "Quantifying the Signaling Role of Education." Here are excerpts: * * * This paper quantifies the signaling role of education and measures the associated efficiency losses from asymmetric information. To that end, I model educational attainment and occupational choices in an asymmetric information environment with employer learnin  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland issued the following white paper (No. 25-03) on January 16, 2025 by Pawel M. Krolikowski and Andrew H. McCallum entitled "Tariffs and Goods-Market Search Frictions." Here are excerpts: * * * We study uniform tariffs in a general equilibrium dynamic model with search frictions between heterogeneous exporting producers and importing retailers. We analytically characterize unilateral import tariffs that maximize domestic   more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 18 -- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2025: New consumer safeguards that took effect today protect Ohioans from having their signatures used without their knowledge or consent, Attorney General Dave Yost announced. "A signature is a symbol of your identity, and you alone should decide how it's used," Yost said. "We've reinforced the law to shield your signature from deceptive attempts to use it without your permission." Yost's  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 18 -- The Ohio State Bar Association issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2025: The Ohio State Bar Association this week launched a new partnership with the National Constitution Center to build upon the association's ongoing work to increase public understanding of the law, especially among students and other young adults. Via this collaboration, Ohio lawyers and judges will have the opportunity to join students in their classrooms to teach them about the U.S. Con  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 18 -- The Ohio Pork Council issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2025: * * * Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was named as successor to JD Vance's former US Senate seat today. His wife Tina (far right) stood next to him along with their family. The couple said the family will not relocate to Washington, DC, as a household, but that Husted would be back in Ohio very often. * * * NEW ALBANY, OHIO - Today, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted was   more