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Bringing Fierce Competitors Together to Drive Change – Guest Blog

By Kimberly McConville, CAE No matter your industry, chances are there’s a community issue you champion and support. Consider distracted driving, education, poverty, health. While we can forge ahead as individual organizations to deliver solutions, what if instead we joined forces? In the non-alcoholic beverage industry, we are achieving progress by doing just that. Through […]

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Grassroots Lobbying Produces Policy Results

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State government term limits, a sharply divided electorate and unregulated campaign contributions have dramatically complicated the public policy making process at the local, state and federal government. Local government leaders are impacted by changes in state and federal laws. State lawmakers in 15 states have term-limits which reformers hoped would launch a new breed of

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Ohio General Assembly Eyes Priorities For 2018

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2018 will be a year dominated by politics and some policy in the Ohio Statehouse. 99 Ohio House seats and half of the 33 Ohio Senate seats are up for grabs in 2018. With 2018 being an election year, and one in which many are predicting a potentially challenging year for Republicans, legislative leaders are

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Trump Calls for the Return of Federal Budget Earmarks

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A tax reform victory does not mean that Washington DC is working again. Immigration reform, federal budget and appropriation, health care and a range of other issues are a constant political struggle for the President and the Congress. President Donald Trump, who defines unpredictable threw out a unique idea as to how to promote bi-partisan

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Ohio Political Scene Changes by the Minute

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America lives in the age of political chaos. You don’t have to look at Washington to understand this statement. Look at the politics of the Buckeye State. Ohio is a political state that is in play for both Republicans and Democrats nationally in every Presidential election. The upcoming 2018 statewide elections in Ohio illustrates this

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