{"id":15675,"date":"2025-04-10T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=15675"},"modified":"2025-04-10T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:17:01","slug":"hicks-hudson-condemns-concurrence-of-senate-bill-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/hicks-hudson-condemns-concurrence-of-senate-bill-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hicks-Hudson Condemns Concurrence of Senate Bill 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9791\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9791\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sen.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson_1-copy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sen.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson_1-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sen.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson_1-copy-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sen.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson_1-copy.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Paula Hicks-Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) condemned the Ohio Senate\u2019s concurrence of Senate Bill 1, also known as the \u201cHigher Education Destruction Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Bill 1 is still a bad bill,\u201d said Hicks-Hudson. \u201cNo matter what changes have been made by the House, it doesn\u2019t help the attack on the First Amendment rights, employment contract law, and sanctity of higher education in Ohio. It\u2019s just putting lipstick on a pig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between the bill\u2019s committee hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives, S.B. 1 received over 1,700 testimony submissions opposing the legislation, compared to less than 50 submissions in support. Senate Bill 1 jeopardizes the future of higher education in Ohio by driving away students, faculty, and critical business partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 1 now heads to Governor Mike DeWine for his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) condemned the Ohio Senate\u2019s concurrence of Senate Bill 1, also known as the \u201cHigher Education Destruction Act.\u201d \u201cSenate Bill 1 is still a bad bill,\u201d said Hicks-Hudson. \u201cNo matter what changes have been made by the House, it doesn\u2019t help the attack on the First Amendment rights, employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[288],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15676,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions\/15676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}