Portman Sees Value in Keystone XL

Posted by on Mar 20, 2012 in Blog | 52 comments Citing the benefit to consumers at the pump, as well as to feeder companies in the oil and gas industry, Senator Portman visited Solidstate, a Columbus-based company yesterday to discuss the pipeline project. Keystone XL, a pipeline that would pipe oil from Alberta, Canada down to Texas for refining, has become an environmental as well as political issue, with both sides working to coalesce...
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Ohio Needs to Get Out the Vote

Posted by on Mar 12, 2012 in Blog | 32 comments More data than the results have come in about the Ohio Republican Primary: despite better than average, and colorful, campaign activity, Ohio republicans, and those in most other states, didn’t turn out to vote, according to the Columbus Dispatch. In large part, despite an arena-like feel to the campaign, most states are reporting lower-than-average voter turnout in this primary season....
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Spotlight: Ohio

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Blog | 73 comments In a telling circumstance, our state is yet again the focal point of a major election, and don’t expect it stop with Super Tuesday. Somehow the primary has lingered this long, and with Romney and Santorum in a dead heat, the frontrunner (Romney, in case you were wondering) hopes to deal a decisive, big state blow to the upstart candidate in Ohio. Having lost Michigan, Ohio represents a big...
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