Laura A. Bischoff
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Laura Bischoff has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1995 and focuses on state and federal government.
She has been assigned to the Statehouse bureau since 2001 and has broken stories on the public pension funds, Ohio State University, Ohio Medicaid and politicians of all stripes.
Her work has earned her a number of state and national reporting honors.
Prior to her current assignment, Bischoff worked as a business reporter and covered Dayton city hall. She previously covered local government for the Flint (Mich.) Journal.
Bischoff was raised in Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
She lives in Worthington with her husband and two sons.
Latest from Laura A. Bischoff
Revived Tea Party may hurt Kasich
The IRS scandal has put the Tea Party back in the news, and Ohio conservatives have been featured prominently in stories about the targeting of groups because of their political affiliations. But an invigorated Tea Party may not be the best news for some Republicans, including Gov. John Kasich, who ...
Gee’s $1.9M salary 3rd among U.S. public colleges
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee was knocked off the top spot on the list of highest paid public university presidents but is well positioned to regain the number one post in the coming year, according to a survey released Sunday by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Gee’s $1.9 ...
Violence up at Lebanon prison, report says
A surprise inspection of the state prison in Lebanon shows violence has been escalating over the past two years with more disturbances and assaults. Half of the inmates rate Lebanon Correctional Institution as unsafe or very unsafe and the prison is tied with the prison in Lucasville for the highest ...
Attorney General’s office builds statewide online database of unsolved homicides
The Ohio Attorney General’s office is slowly building a database of unsolved homicides from across the state in the hopes of generating new leads for detectives who might be able to solve cases that went cold long ago. “The idea was to get every unsolved homicide on a statewide database. ...
Cell phone, laptop, tablet theft could be felony offenses
Ohio lawmakers are considering legislation that would make stealing a cell phone, computer, laptop or tablet a felony offense.Many Ohioans carry laptops, tablets or smart phones that contain banking information, health data, extensive contact lists and other sensitive data that if stolen could wreak havoc in short order.This legislation comes ...
Pension trustees pull Hawaii trip request
The subsidized Hawaii trip is off for School Employees Retirement System trustees Barbra Phillips and Catherine Moss, who bowed to lawmaker and public pressure Tuesday and rescinded their requests for travel reimbursement for a May conference in Honolulu.Phillips and Moss both sent emails to SERS executives on Tuesday morning, less ...
Agency makes it harder for state pension board members to get reimbursed for Hawaii trip
A little known state agency on Monday took an unusual step to block trustees and employees of the School Employees Retirement System from getting reimbursed for travel expenses to Hawaii, Columbus or anywhere else for that matter. The pension fund board has refused to cancel plans to send two trustees ...
Repeat gun offenders could face mandatory 11-year prison term
New tough-on-crime legislation would mandate an 11-year sentence for those convicted of illegally possessing a gun, if they previously had been convicted of two or more violent felonies. The bill, which has the backing of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, will be introduced Friday by state Sen. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus. ...
Prison focus of steroid probe
A drug task force is investigating illegal steroid use, distribution and manufacture among staff at the Lebanon Correctional Institution state prison, the Dayton Daily News has learned.Commander John Burke said the investigation by the Greater Warren County Drug Task Force is centered on prison employees, not inmates. No arrests have ...
Beer brewers upset with Ohio lawmakers
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, says it was blindsided by Ohio lawmakers who approved an amendment “in the space of four hours” that will prohibit breweries from buying wholesale distributorships in the future. The beer giant is now publicly pleading with legislative leaders to reverse course or even take ...
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