Democrats sue Kasich over public records
The Ohio Democratic Party has sued Governor John Kasich for what Democrats call his refusal to release his public schedules. 

Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Jerid Kurtz says the suit filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court is part of an effort to see if Governor Kasich has used taxpayer money to campaign for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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Kurtz says former Democratic Governor Ted Strickland complied with the same requests from Ohio Republicans when he was in office. Governor Kasich’s office has not responded to requests for comment.

Ryan to visit his Ohio alma mater
Likely Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will attend a victory rally tomorrow at his alma mater, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Ryan majored in economics and political science at Miami before graduating in 1992.

His stop there on Wednesday comes the day after Mitt Romney is traveling through the southeast section of the state, attacking President Obama’s energy policy.

Cuyahoga invests in plant expansion
Cuyahoga County is awarding a loan of nearly $1.3 million to Swift Filters Incorporated. The loan will help build a new plant in Oakwood Village, tripling the size of the current facility and creating three dozen jobs.

The cost of the project is expected to total more than $3 million.

African-American ministers call Ohio voting restrictions 'Jim Crow'
African American ministers are increasingly condemning Ohio laws and election rules that cut back on early voting in the state, especially in Democratic areas.

The African-American Ministers Leadership Council says the restrictions on evening and weekend voting will hit especially hard in counties where more than half the state’s African Americans live. The Rev. Tony Minor of Cleveland describes the restrictions as “Jim Crow” and part of a voter suppression effort “aimed directly at African Americans in swing states.”

The four counties in which Republicans have blocked extended voting hours are Cuyahoga, Franklin, Summit and Lucas. Statewide, Republican lawmakers ended all early voting on the weekend before an election.

Demjanjuk's posthumous appeal continues
The estate of John Demjanjuk has asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to reinstate his citizenship posthumously.

Demjanjuk died in Germany in March at age 91. He had been deported from Northeast Ohio to face a trial there on war crimes and was convicted shortly before his death.

A three-judge appeals-court panel already turned down the citizenship request, but The Plain Dealer says his widow now wants all 16 judges on the court to hear the request.

His estate’s appeal says the U.S. government committed fraud in prosecuting and deporting him.