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Metro columnist for cleveland.com with work also appearing in The Plain Dealer.
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Gov. Mike DeWine finally said the right words on the death penalty. Too bad words are all he had: Leila Atassi

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By Leila Atassi Verified
| Cleveland.com Verified
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Give Mike DeWine this much: It takes something to stand up in front of your party and say the thing they don’t want to hear. On Tuesday, Ohio’s outgoing Republican governor declared publicly that he opposes the death penalty and urged state lawmakers to abolish it. It was an announcement that broke with decades of Republican orthodoxy on crime and punishment. But a man with nothing left to lose isn’t taking much of a risk by stopping at that declaration.
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Republican Congressman Bob Latta thinks China wrote your electric bill: Leila Atassi

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By Leila Atassi Verified
| Cleveland.com Verified
CLEVELAND, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Bob Latta has finally cracked the case of who is behind the growing revolt against data centers in Ohio. It’s not the people paying the electric bills. It’s China. A subscription is required to read this story. Subscribe now to continue.
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Guest Editorial: Ohio not right to seize public schools and hand them to private operators

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By Leila Atassi Verified
| The Toledo Blade Verified
CLEVELAND — Ohio politicians have a particular gift for losing a fight in public and winning it in private. The Ohio Senate recently tried to give the state sweeping authority over struggling public schools, including the power to close them, convert them to charter schools or hand them to private operators. But educators and parents revolted, and the backlash was strong enough that lawmakers stripped those provisions from Senate Bill 127. That was May 11. By May 29, the same ideas were back.
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