Mahoning County Commissioner Carol Rimedio-Righetti was in Columbus Thursday to attend a Senate hearing at which witnesses from northeast counties, including Trumbull and Ashtabula, and Montgomery County offered testimony to lawmakers engaged in crafting a two-year state budget about continuing to keep developmental disability centers in their respective areas in operation. The Administration of Gov. Kasich proposes shuttering them by 2017 in his two-year state budget being hammered out now by lawmakers.

Approximately two of every 100 Americans have a developmental disability, which the federal government and state of Ohio define as a severe, chronic disability of a […]