February 26, 2007
What Can the New Governor Do? A Discussion on Prospects for the Strickland
Presented by the Case Center for Policy Studies
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Moderator:
Joe White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Studies, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Panelists:
Joe Hallett joined The Columbus Dispatch in 1999 as politics editor. Before then, Hallett was chief political writer for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland for three years and Statehouse bureau chief for The Toledo Blade for 12 years. John R. Corlett is currently Senior Fellow and manages the Public Policy and Advocacy team at The Center for Community Solutions. The team works on a bipartisan basis on a number of complex issues, including tax and fiscal policy, early care and education, health care, primary and secondary education, and welfare reform at the local, state and national level. He serves as chair of a statewide health and human services coalition as well as co-chair of a statewide budget coalition. In 2006 he served as Campaign Manager for the Coalition for Ohio's Future successful effort to defeat the TEL constitutional amendment, and authored a report for the Brookings Institution on the implementation of welfare reform in Ohio. He has been the primary and or contributing author of a number of articles, presentations, and reports and analyses on key state and federal policy issues. Recently he served as a healthcare policy resource to the Strickland-Fisher transition team. Mr. Corlett has served as campaign manager for two successful Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services Levies. He also served as a Health Policy Fellow in the Washington, D.C. offices of U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown. Previously Mr. Corlett was director of government affairs and advocacy for the Center for Families and Children. In addition, Mr. Corlett's commentaries have been published in newspapers across Ohio. Mr. Corlett is a resident of the City of Cleveland. James P. Trakas, served 4 term terms in the Ohio General Assembly as the legislator, from the 17th District, Independence, Ohio. Mr. Trakas reintroduced the Third Frontier Legislation and is a staunch proponent of economic development in Ohio. He served on the Economic Development and Environment Committee, the Finance and Appropriations Committee (including the Higher Education Subcommittee) and was Vice Chair of the Elections and Ethics Committee. Jim Trakas was voted Bioscience Legislator of the Year in 2004.
Original Event Description
Monday February 26th, 2007
Allen Medical Library
Ford Auditorium - 4:30p.m.
Corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road on the Campus of Case Western
Reserve University
Our Panelists Include:
Joe Hallett
Joe Hallett joined The Columbus Dispatch in 1999 as politics editor. Before then, Hallett was chief political writer for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland for three years and Statehouse bureau chief for The Toledo Blade for 12 years.
John Corlett
John R. Corlett is currently Senior Fellow and manages the Public Policy and Advocacy team at The Center for Community Solutions. The team works on a bipartisan basis on a number of complex issues, including tax and fiscal policy, early care and education, health care, primary and secondary education, and welfare reform at the local, state and national level. He serves as chair of a statewide health and human services coalition as well as co-chair of a statewide budget coalition.
In 2006 he served as Campaign Manager for the Coalition for Ohio's Future successful effort to defeat the TEL constitutional amendment, and authored a report for the Brookings Institution on the implementation of welfare reform in Ohio. He has been the primary and or contributing author of a number of articles, presentations, and reports and analyses on key state and federal policy issues. Recently he served as a healthcare policy resource to the Strickland-Fisher transition team.
Mr. Corlett has served as campaign manager for two successful Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services Levies. He also served as a Health Policy Fellow in the Washington, D.C. offices of U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown.
Previously Mr. Corlett was director of government affairs and advocacy for the Center for Families and Children.
In addition, Mr. Corlett's commentaries have been published in newspapers across Ohio. Mr. Corlett is a resident of the City of Cleveland.
Jim Trakas
James P. Trakas, served 4 term terms in the Ohio General Assembly as the legislator, from the 17th District, Independence, Ohio. Mr. Trakas reintroduced the Third Frontier Legislation and is a staunch proponent of economic development in Ohio. He served on the Economic Development and Environment Committee, the Finance and Appropriations Committee (including the Higher Education Subcommittee) and was Vice Chair of the Elections and Ethics Committee. Jim Trakas was voted Bioscience Legislator of the Year in 2004.
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