465 questions and issues appearing on the 2012 primary election ballot. Below is the list of issues by type:

9 bond issues (7 are school issues)
280 tax issues (85 are school issues)
124 local liquor options

9 combination questions – as explained below:

7 are school bond issues with a tax levy
2 are school income tax issues with a bond issue

43 miscellaneous questions (broken down as follows)

6 electric aggregation questions
5 charter amendments
3 zoning amendments
25 tax changes (11 are school issues)
4 miscellaneous questions

Below is the list of school issues, where duplicates appear it indicates more than one issue for that distrcit appears on the ballot.

County	District	Type	N/R
ALLEN	Allen East L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
ALLEN	Bath L.S.D	Bond	New
ALLEN	Delphos C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
ALLEN	Lima C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
ASHTABULA	Ashtabula Area C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
ASHTABULA	Grand Valley L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
ASHTABULA	Jefferson Area L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
ASHTABULA	Jefferson Area L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
AUGLAIZE	New Bremen L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
COLUMBIANA	Beaver L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
CRAWFORD	Crestline Exempted V.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
CRAWFORD	Wynford L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
CRAWFORD	Wynford L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
CUYAHOGA	Berea C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Chagrin Falls Exempted V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Cuyahoga Heights L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Garfield Heights C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Mayfield C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Parma C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
CUYAHOGA	Rocky River C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
CUYAHOGA	Strongsville C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
DARKE	Greenville C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
DARKE	Tri Village L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
DARKE	Versailles Exempted V.S.D	Income Tax	New
DEFIANCE	Ayersville L.S.D	Income Tax	Renewal
DEFIANCE	Central L.S.D	Bond & Income Tax	New
DEFIANCE	Central L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
DEFIANCE	Defiance C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
FAIRFIELD	Lancaster C.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
FAYETTE	Miami Trace L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
FRANKLIN	South-Western C.S.D	Bond	New
FRANKLIN	Westerville C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
FULTON	Evergreen L.S.D	Income Tax	New
FULTON	Four County J.V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
FULTON	Swanton L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
GEAUGA	West Geauga L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
GREENE	Beavercreek C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
GREENE	Fairborn C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
GUERNSEY	Cambridge C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HAMILTON	Forest Hills L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
HAMILTON	Mt. Healthy C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
HAMILTON	Princeton C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
HAMILTON	Wyoming C.S.D	Bond	New
HANCOCK	Arcadia L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HANCOCK	Arcadia L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HANCOCK	Findlay C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HANCOCK	Van Buren L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HARDIN	Ada Exempted V.S.D	Income Tax	Renewal
HARDIN	Ridgemont L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
HENRY	Napoleon Area C.S.D	Bond	New
HENRY	Napoleon Area C.S.D	Income Tax	New
HENRY	Patrick Henry L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
HIGHLAND	Fairfield L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HOLMES	East Holmes L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
HOLMES	East Holmes L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
HURON	Norwalk C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
JEFFERSON	Edison L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
JEFFERSON	Indian Creek L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
JEFFERSON	Jefferson County J.V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
LAKE	Willoughby-Eastlake C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
LAWRENCE	Lawrence County J.V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
LORAIN	Avon L.S.D	Bond	New
LORAIN	Avon L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
LORAIN	Lorain County J.V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
LORAIN	Midview L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MADISON	London C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
MAHONING	Poland L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MAHONING	Poland L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
MAHONING	Youngstown C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MEDINA	Brunswick C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
MEDINA	Buckeye L.S.D	Income Tax	New
MERCER	Coldwater Exempted V.S.D	Tax Levy	New
MONTGOMERY	Brookville L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MONTGOMERY	Kettering C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MONTGOMERY	Mad River L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
MONTGOMERY	Oakwood C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
MONTGOMERY	Vandalia-Butler C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
OTTAWA	Benton-Carroll-Salem L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
OTTAWA	Genoa Area L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
PORTAGE	Field L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
PORTAGE	Waterloo L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
RICHLAND	Madison L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
RICHLAND	Ontario L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
SANDUSKY	Woodmore L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
SCIOTO	Green L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
SENECA	Tiffin C.S.D	Tax Levy	New
STARK	Alliance C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
STARK	Canton L.S.D	Bond	New
SUMMIT	Cuyahoga Falls C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
SUMMIT	Manchester L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
SUMMIT	Woodridge L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
TRUMBULL	Champion L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
TRUMBULL	Howland L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
TRUMBULL	Lakeview L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
TRUMBULL	Niles C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
TRUMBULL	Warren C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
TRUMBULL	Weathersfield L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
WARREN	Carlisle L.S.D	Bond & Tax Levy	New
WASHINGTON	Marietta C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
WASHINGTON	Marietta C.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
WASHINGTON	Wolf Creek L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
WAYNE	Chippewa L.S.D	Income Tax	New
WAYNE	Norwayne L.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
WAYNE	Triway L.S.D	Income Tax	New
WILLIAMS	Bryan C.S.D	Bond	New
WILLIAMS	Montpelier Exempted V.S.D	Income Tax	New
WILLIAMS	Stryker L.S.D	Tax Levy	New
WOOD	Bowling Green C.S.D	Income Tax	Renewal
WOOD	North Baltimore L.S.D	Income Tax	Renewal
WOOD	Rossford Exempted V.S.D	Tax Levy	Renewal
WOOD	Rossford Exempted V.S.D - I	Tax Levy	Renewal
WOOD	Rossford Exempted V.S.D - II	Tax Levy	Renewal

One thing that hasn't changed in the Senate's budget revisions are the cuts. While they did manage to find another $100 million or so, that still leaves schools across the state suffering from an estimated $3 billion shortfall over the next 2 years. The results of which we are starting to see now as districts cut, cut, cut, cut and cut some more.

One of the plans the administration has in the budget was to lease the state liquer business and use those receipts to fund its new economic development program, "JobsOhio". The plan had been to lease it for $1.2 billion. Now it turns out that a people are starting to question whether that's a low ball number, and that maybe this valuable state asset could be worth a lot more. Hundreds of millions of dollars more in fact.

The state of Ohio needs to jack up the $1.2 billion price on its state liquor operations before selling them off to the newly hatched JobsOhio economic development board later this year.

That's the conclusion of Republican Sen. Tim Grendell and the Center for Community Solutions, a public policy think tank. Both have popped up in recent days with criticisms that the proposed $1.2 billion price tag for the state's liquor monopoly is far too low.

By some estimates the price might be $800 million too low. Sen. Grendell wants to amend the budget to increase the price to $1.5 billion and divert that extra $300 million to education. The Governor, through his spokesperson is having none of it.

Nichols also responded in an e-mail that creating jobs was more important than expanding government.

"For those who really understand that job creation is Ohio's greatest need right now, then the right focus is on making sure JobsOhio has every resource it needs to help create jobs and revive Ohio's economy," he wrote. "Ensuring a fair transaction on the liquor enterprise is a given, but a preoccupation with that to the detriment of JobsOhio's success is just another example of people failing to realize that creating jobs is more important than growing government."

This is nonsensical. Getting more money from the sale of a state asset in order to preserve thousands of middle class education jobs is economic development. To block this move and call it "growing government" is incomprehensible, and should cause everyone to pause and consider what the administrations true motives are.

Ohio Budget Watch has more on this privatization scheme.

School levies on the March ballot

Administration destroying jobs to create phantom ones