For an interesting look at how other cities are being impacted because of the economy, take a quick look at the International Association of Fire Fighters web site. It doesn’t make anything better here, but when you look at what is happening in other areas, we can say we [...]
Last night, Attorney General Steve Christopher was on the Matt Patrick show on WTAM to explain just how badly it appears Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner screwed up his petitions.
Click here to listen. [...]
Laketa Cole, the new Chief of the Reliability and Service Analysis division at PUCO, will make $78,354/year, plus benefits. You go, girlfriend!
Ohio Democrats will sometimes move mountains to make sure someone is employed… as long as that person threatens to create a contested primary in [...]
From the Youngstown Vindicator:
Alyssa Lenhoff, wife of disgraced ex-Ohio attorney general Marc Dann, will be invited — if she hasn’t already been — to play Let’s Make a Deal by Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien. It’s standard operating procedure. Prosecutors hook the big fish by first luring the little [...]
Secretary of State Candidates Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
and Jon Husted file their candidacy petitions
The Akron Beacon Journal paints the Steve Christopher petitions filing saga as "he said, she said".
After wading through it, it really comes down to this quote:
Mark Lucas, a Christopher campaign spokesman, relates a' [...]
Here’s a good commentary from last week on how Youngstown State University is building an anchor for STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in the Valley.
We are working with the city of Warren, NorTech (a Cleveland area economic development group), and the Youngstown Business Incubator to design and [...]
Erica Werner, writing for the Associated Press, not reporting new blames newly minted Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) for the current failure of health care legislation in the Senate.
The crux of the article is “New Sen. Brown bashes Obama’s `bitter’ health push” and accused Barack [...]
There’s one simple step Cleveland’s civic leadership could take to improve its performance: Adopt the annual practice of taking large delegations of Cleveland’s leadership to other cities for 2-3 day workshops.
Here’s an example from Baton Rouge.
East Baton Rouge Parish (EBR) Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden and the Baton Rouge [...]
I have the feeling, as I’m stepping into Tommy’s for the first time, that I’m entering a bit of history that’s not really my own. Admittedly, I don’t venture into Columbus’ Franklinton neighborhood often enough, so I can’t claim it as my neighborhood, and thus I can’t [...]
In 2009, according to financial information at nasdaq.com, the New York Times Company’s revenues fell by over 17%. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company’s full-time employee count shrunk by 1,681, or over 18%. Rumor has it that more layoffs [...]
This blogger observes, truly, and cleverly, that Obama has pushed a new measure of poverty that makes poverty permanent.
Basically, the blogger looks at the bell curve, notes that the bell curve has a lower end, and that Obama’s measure is the bell curve.
Post urging reader to immediately click through to the funniest meta video and ensuing comment thread in ages.
Monosyllabic expression of hearty approval.
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The Diocese of Marquette is investigating an possible miracle attributed to Servant of God, Bishop Frederic Baraga. The official inquiry will move the cause for Bishop Baraga’s canonization forward, which was opened for the prelate in 1952.
In press conference on Wednesday, the [...]
Two reports linked by Instapundit earlier today demonstrate at a macro and micro level how weak the claim that Toyota has deliberately jeopardized consumer safety in connection with “sudden acceleration” complaints may ultimately turn out to be.
It was one of the deadliest attacks of the war for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The target: a remote U.S. outpost in Wanat, Nuristan. The date: July 13, 2008.
CPT Matt Meyer, & SGT Mike Denton were awarded Silver Stars for their actions at the Battel of Wanat in Afghanistan.
President Obama and the Democrats know they don’t have the votes to pass his massive health care reform, so they’re personally courting one their own progressive democrats who as of right now is a “no” vote. However, Kucinich can be persuaded to change his mind if one little item in [...]
The head of the national association of Catholic hospitals, which holds great sway in the health care debate, threw her support Saturday behind the contested Senate reform bill in a move that could give a major boost to the legislation’s prospects.
But the endorsement of Sister Carol Keehan, [...]
It would have been shocking if the former Mayor had supported Toledo City Councilman Joe McNamara for the Senate spot, but as could have been easily predicted, as a part of Jack Ford’s return to writing in this week’s Sojourner’s Truth, he supports Brown:
It seems to me that [...]
Those who make up the Hildo are not happy with some of the budget deficit reduction items presented by the Bell administration, especially those suggested by the Finkbeiner administration in, Won’t get fooled again. Those at time clever and typically entertaining Hildoites have made up a name for the [...]
This should outrage everyone. To think that our forefathers fled religious persecution to come to America to enjoy freedom of religion. Well, that same persecution is under way in Gilbert, Arizona.
World Net Daily reports:
The city of Gilbert, Ariz., has ordered a group of seven adults to [...]
From the Washington Examiner --Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by "deeming" it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the [...]
Why are some metropolitan areas so much more entrepreneurial than others? Silicon Valley seems almost magically entrepreneurial, with a new startup on [...]
… what he said! …
I was reading an American Spectator article by Ben Lerner which talked about the three Navy SEALs who are currently facing courts martial.
On the off chance you’re not familiar with the case, in a nutshell, the SEALs captured Ahmed Hashim Abed. Whilst so doing says [...]
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