Gov. Mike DeWine took a break from reviewing the two-year state budget that he’s set to sign next week. He said there will “certainly be something” he’ll veto, but he wouldn’t give too many hints.
DeWine’s spokesman posted on X that the 5,500-page budget was delivered—in four boxes on a cart—to DeWine’s office at 5:08pm on Friday. The budget includes a 2.75% flat income tax, a 40% cap on the collected property tax that school districts can hold as a percentage of their operating budgets, and a $600 million grant to the Cleveland Browns for a domed stadium development in Brook Park financed with unclaimed funds.
DeWine said his office was “wallpapered” with pages from the budget as he and his staff started working on it. He spent time Saturday morning at a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Ohio-Erie Canal in Newark, dressed in period clothes and a top hat that First Lady Fran DeWine said was an heirloom from her family…