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Each morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio, the country and the world that catches our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye and have published it here.
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Catching our eyes
- Ohio Governor’s Race. Jo Ingles of the Statehouse News Bureau reports: “Why votes for the longtime GOP candidate for Ohio governor won’t count.” Former Morgan County School Board member Heather Hill is on the statewide ballot in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and Stuart Moats is listed as her lieutenant governor. But votes cast for this ticket will not be counted. On Wednesday, Moats filed official paperwork with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office notifying them that he had withdrawn from the primary election. The Ohio Secretary of State’s office said that without a valid running mate, Hill is no longer eligible to receive votes for governor. And while their names will remain on the statewide ballot, Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections have been notified that their votes will not be counted.
- Ted Carter (again). WOSU Public Media’s George Shillcock reports: “University of Nebraska confirms review of records dating back to former President Ted Carter’s term.” The University of Nebraska says it is reviewing former NU and Ohio State University president Walter “Ted” Carter Jr.’s university internship records.
Carter served as NU’s president for three years before joining Ohio State in 2023. The statement said NU is aware of the report by OSU regarding Carter’s alleged misconduct that led to his March 9 resignation.
- Purdue Pharma. Propublica and Philadelphia Inquirer report: ‘A punch in the gut’: After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be barred from Purdue settlement.” Mary Jannotta spent decades cutting meat and cheese behind deli counters at Acme and Pathmark supermarkets in suburban Philadelphia, feeling the pain of working on her feet. A botched back surgery in 2008 worsened the pain. Her doctor repeatedly prescribed OxyContin, Purdue’s popular painkiller Pharma – a high-dose opioid that the company later admitted was sold and distributed for criminal purposes. Jannotta said she soon became addicted to opioids. Cut off by doctors, she went to Kensington, the headquarters of a perilous open-air drug market in Philadelphia, to get the pills. Tyler Cordeiro eventually lost her car, her grandson due to an overdose.
When Purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019, Jannotta, along with nearly 140,000 others, filed lawsuits against the company for harm they believed its drugs caused. Although money could not restore what was lost, the financial settlement presented an opportunity to seek justice from the company and its multi-billion owners, the Sackler family.
Then they waited.
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