{"id":122589,"date":"2019-09-14T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=122589"},"modified":"2019-09-14T07:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:23:23","slug":"governor-thanked-for-settlement-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/09\/14\/governor-thanked-for-settlement-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor thanked for settlement decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Board of Commissioners publicly acknowledged its appreciation for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s statement regarding opiate lawsuit settlement dollars going directly to counties and municipalities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a brief news release Friday, the commissioners noted the governor said it would be a \u201cserious mistake\u201d to require opioid lawsuit settlement money to go to the state, instead of directly to local governments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commissioners added that, because there is the potential to usurp local authorities and redirect settlement dollars to the state, local county officials appreciate DeWine\u2019s efforts in directing the money to counties and municipalities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVan Wert County continues to appreciate working with the DeWine administration,\u201d the commissioners noted.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County Board of Commissioners publicly acknowledged its appreciation for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s statement regarding opiate lawsuit settlement dollars going directly to counties and municipalities.&nbsp; In a brief news release Friday, the commissioners noted the governor said it would be a \u201cserious mistake\u201d to require opioid lawsuit settlement money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:29:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}