The Spectrum: STRS battle; Biden’s fentanyl bill

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on The Spectrum:

• There’s no end in sight for the battle for control of the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS).

“We’ll let the courts figure that, figure this out,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said about one week after a court ruled the governor overstepped his authority in ousting STRS member Wade Steen.

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“I felt like they, again, pulled the rug out from underneath us,” STRS board member Julie Sellers said.

• President Joe Biden signed a bill this week aimed at addressing the fentanyl crisis.

“This is not a… it’s not an urban problem or a rural problem or suburban problem,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said. “It’s, it’s everywhere.

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Hear who the bill targets and why Brown said it will save lives.

• “I think the most important thing that we believe as conservatives is that, keeping local control,” Findlay Mayor Christina Muryn, a Republican, said.

Home rule is at the top of the agenda for the Ohio Mayor’s Alliance.

“There’s no Republican way to create a job, no Democratic way to fix a pothole,” Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, a Democrat, said.

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Hear why leaders from both sides of the aisle said they’re better positioned to solve problems than lawmakers at the Ohio Statehouse.

• Republican strategist Mike Gonidakis and Democratic strategist Joe Rettof join the roundtable to discuss the struggle for control of STRS and Ohio’s mayors lobbying for more local control.

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