With the temperatures rising and school being out for the summer, many families in Ohio and the surrounding states are looking forward to time spent on one of Ohio’s treasured bodies of water. Boating, fishing, swimming, and camping, are only a few of the summer staples many Ohioans enjoy during these hot, summer months.

DPSA has been spending countless hours following Ohio House Bill 386, known as the casino bill or gaming bill. This piece of legislation encompasses regulations for Ohio’s four new casinos, Ohio’s seven racetracks, VLTs, the state lottery, bingo, internet gaming, and charitable gaming, just to name a few! This bill has been a hot topic for the past few months now, and is slowly drawing to an end.

It is official; the student loan debt has reached $1 trillion and is expected to reach $1.4 trillion by the year 2020. Earlier this month, this debt surpassed the amount of debt from credit cards. It seems as though student loan debt is climbing at a rapid pace, with little solutions from the state or feds to create a solution. Predictions show that the student loan bubble could the next bubble to burst, just like the housing crisis back in 2007. Since 2006, the average student debt has risen almost 30%.

Today marks the busiest day of the primary season for the 2012 Presidential Election. Leading up to today’s vote, both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have spent the last week campaigning non-stop in our swing-state of Ohio, while both Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul took their campaign efforts elsewhere. Most polls show Romney with a slight edge over Santorum leading in Ohio coming into today, an edge so small, most polls believe it to be within the margin of error. Gingrich hopes to win his home state of Georgia tonight, while Paul focused mainly on Idaho—continuing his campaign efforts in the caucus states.