1. Metro&StateSection B | The Columbus Dispatch | Thursday, May 19, 2016
StateSection B | The Columbus Dispatch | Thursday, May 19, 2016
Revised medical marijuana
bill would speed access / B4
OSU’s vet school gets
$6M donation / B3
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By Lucas Sullivan
The Columbus Dispatch
An initiative petition that
would ask voters to dramat-
ically change the Columbus
City Council could require
a special citywide election
on Aug. 2, which would cost
taxpayers about $1 million.
Represent Columbus,
a group of community
activists and area Republi-
cans, is proposing to change
the council from seven
at-large members to 13
members with three elected
at-large and 10 from wards.
The group turned in more
than 38,000 signatures last
week at City Hall. Franklin
County Board of Elections
PETITION FOR BALLOT INITIATIVE
Special vote for council changes?
By Emily Bohatch
The Columbus Dispatch
Daniel Gale approached
a house on his Upper
Arlington postal route
and exchanged looks with
the dog who was dutifully
guarding the glass front
door.
“There he is,” Gale said,
not taking his eyes off the
animal.
The sleepy canine lifted
its head and gave Gale a
half-hearted growl as he
Snap judgments
Columbus ranks
high in dog attacks
on postal workers,
who keep wary eye
ANIMALS
Postal worker Daniel Gale peeks at a dog as the dog peeks back on the front porch of a home in Upper Arlington. Although Gale has never been
bitten, he carries a dog repellent and has been trained to deal with dogs while delivering mail. BROOKE LAVALLEY/DISPATCH
By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch
Beer fans got a legislative
two-fer from the Statehouse
on Wednesday.
A bill allowing North
Market customers to not
only buy alcohol, but also
drink it while visiting ven-
dors or eating a meal there,
got final House passage
Wednesday. And, thanks to
a Senate amendment, the
bill also eliminates Ohio’s
12 percent limit on alcohol
in beer, opening the state’s
craft brewery market to new
options.
Ohio’s 12 percent limit
alcohol in beer was set in
2002, when craft breweries
were scarce. Today, roughly
2,500 Ohioans work at
about 190 craft breweries, a
number that has tripled since
2012.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Beer buffs
can toast
bill OK’d
by House
SEE ATTACKS, B4
SEE VOTE, B14
SEE BILL, B5
By John Futty
The Columbus Dispatch
For the second time in
five months, a 17-year-old
girl who survived a mass
shooting in a South Linden
basement took the witness
stand on Wednesday and
identified Jordyn D. Wade as
a participant in the slayings.
CRIME & THE COURTS
Mass-killing
witness
talks about
playing dead
SEE WITNESS, B5
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