In a piece for The Columbus Dispatch, Buckeye's Daniel J. Dew calls out suspect polling being used by the American Bail Coalition to claim that people oppose bail reform. Reputable polling, conducted and released using professional industry standards, shows 85 percent of people favor replacing cash bail with supervised release.
As the Ohio General Assembly prepares to consider the 2018 capital budget, The Buckeye Institute released Principled Spending: Using Ohio’s Capital Budget to Benefit Ohioans. The report outlines three principles policymakers should use in spending taxpayer dollars: constrain the growth of state government, eliminate corporate and special interest welfare, and focus spending on the core functions of state government. “By following these principles, Ohio policymakers will ensure they are wisely spending taxpayer dollars…”
