Today’s Columbus Dispatch reports that “Nearly eight years after they killed it, legislative Republicans want to re-create their own state budget watchdog, saying one is needed… Joined yesterday by about a dozen other House GOP members at a news conference, Minority Leader William G. Batchelder of Medina outlined a bill to bring back the Legislative Budget Office.”

I just had to smile, because that has been a key point made over and over (and over) by Dick Sheridan in State Budgeting Matters. Check out his story as Ohio’s first LBO director in the 1/15/09 issue, and see why he thinks it’s time for the state to resurrect the LBO. What do you think???