Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census,the population was 232,603. Its county seat is Painesville,and its largest city is Mentor.
Painesville is a city in and the county seat of Lake County,Ohio,United States,located along the Grand River. It is a northeast suburb of Cleveland. Its population was 20,312 at the 2020 census. Painesville is included in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
Hocking College is a public community college in Nelsonville,Ohio. The college offers more than 60 associate and vocational programs and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The college was chartered in 1969 by the Ohio Board of Regents.
Larry Lee Householder is an American former politician who was convicted in the largest bribery corruption scandal in Ohio’s history. Householder was the state representative for Ohio's 72nd district and was a two-time Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party. Householder represented the same district from 1997 to 2004,including as speaker from 2001 to 2004. In 2016,he was elected to the Statehouse again,and on January 7,2019,he was re-elected to serve as speaker with support from Ohio House Democrats,including current United States Congresswoman Emilia Sykes. His district included Coshocton and Perry counties,as well as about half of Licking County.
The government of the U.S. state of Ohio consists of the executive,judicial,and legislative branches. Its basic structure is set forth in the Constitution and law of Ohio.
Capital University Law School is an ABA-accredited private law school located in downtown Columbus,Ohio,United States. The law school is affiliated with Capital University,the oldest university in Central Ohio and one of the oldest and largest Lutheran-affiliated universities in North America.
Ohio's 6th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district which is represented by Representative Michael Rulli of the Republican Party. Rulli was elected to the seat after he defeated Democrat Michael Kripchak in the June 11,2024 special election,caused by the resignation of incumbent Bill Johnson (R) on January 21,2024.
Concord Township is one of the five townships of Lake County,Ohio,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 19,254. Lake County is part of the Cleveland-Elyria,OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Painesville Township is one of the five townships of Lake County,Ohio,United States. The population was 20,453 at the 2020 census. It is a part of Greater Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region,and is included in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton,Ohio combined statistical area in the United States.
Charles Ellis Moore was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1933.
Timothy J. Grendell is a Republican judge on the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2005 to 2011,and of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2000 until 2004. Timothy Grendell was appointed to the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas as the Juvenile and Probate judge in 2011 by then Governor John Kasich after leaving Columbus,OH. After seeking election again,running unopposed in 2020,he is currently Geauga County's elected judge.
Kevin Bacon is a former state senator for the 3rd District of the Ohio Senate,who served from 2011 to 2018. Formerly,he served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2010,and as a Blendon Township Trustee. Bacon represented portions of Franklin County,including Westerville,New Albany,Gahanna,Whitehall,Reynoldsburg,Canal Winchester,Obetz,Valley View,Marble Cliff and portions of Columbus.
Joseph L. Schiavoni is an American politician and judge who served as a member of the Ohio Senate and Ohio Senate Minority Leader. A member of the Democratic Party,Schiavoni was elected in 2020 to serve as a Judge in the Mahoning County,Ohio Court System.
Diane Veronica Grendell is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives,representing the 76th District from 2019 until 2023. A Republican,previously,Grendell served as a judge on the Ohio Eleventh District Court of Appeals. She was elected to this position in 2000,2006,and 2012,and served until 2019. She previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives in a similar seat from 1993 to 2000. She is married to former state legislator and Geauga County Court of Common Pleas Probate and Juvenile Judge Tim Grendell.
Michael Stinziano Jr. is an American politician serving as the auditor of Franklin County,Ohio. He took office on March 11,2019,after winning the election in November 2018. Stinziano previously a member of the Columbus City Council from 2016 to 2019 and the Ohio House of Representatives from 2013 to 2016.
Andrew O. Brenner is a U.S. Republican party politician and member of the Ohio Senate,currently serving his second term for the 19th Senate District.
Donald Jones is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives,representing the 95th district since January 2019. Jones's district includes all of Carroll,Harrison,and Noble counties and portions of Belmont and Washington counties. Prior to elected office,Jones served as an agricultural education teacher at Harrison Central High School. He also serves as a volunteer firefighter and EMT.
Brett Hillyer is an American politician from Ohio. Hillyer is a Republican Party member of the Ohio House of Representatives,representing the 51st district since 2019. Hillyer's district includes all of Tuscarawas County and half of Holmes County.
The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal (2020) is a political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that electric utility company FirstEnergy paid roughly $60 million to Generation Now,a 501(c)(4) organization purportedly controlled by Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion bailout for the nuclear power operator. It was described as "likely the largest bribery,money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio" by U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers,who charged Householder and four others with racketeering on July 21,2020. According to prosecutors,FirstEnergy poured millions into the campaigns of 21 candidates during the 2018 Ohio House of Representatives election,which ultimately helped Householder replace Ryan Smith as Republican House speaker.
The Ohio Fair School Funding Plan is bipartisan legislation introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives as House Bill 1 by Republican Rep. Jamie Callender and Democratic Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney. The bill creates a new school financing system for K-12 education in the State of Ohio,overhauling the state's school funding system that the Ohio Supreme Court found unconstitutional four times beginning with the original DeRolph decision in 1997. HB 1 was signed into law on July 1,2021 as a part of the biennial state operating budget.
