edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
What was interesting is the ban in Michigan will exempt all of the casinos, it doesn’t exempt bars or adult establishments with the exception of casinos. As the Detroit Free Press reports, Gov. Granholm is expected to sign it. One question with the casino exemption is how it will [...]
Downtown business owners say Columbus Public Service Director Mark Kelsey misrepresented facts to members of Columbus City Council Monday night concerning the 50-percent parking meter rate increase that went into effect Nov. 30.
Downtown business owners are dubbing the controversy “Metergate.”
“His dishonesty is absolutely unacceptable. He should resign,” said Liz [...]
It may be a good omen for Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks: The Democrat has already won a new seat in 2010.
Brooks, who is running against Republican incumbent Pat Tiberi for Ohio's 12th District Congressional seat, was elected this week as president of the County Commissioners'' [...]
Hacked e-mails show climate scientists in a bad light but don't change scientific consensus on global warming- FactCheck.org
In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by' [...]
From The White House Blog responding to Minority Leader Boehner's op-ed in today's Washington Post:
Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner has an op-ed in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, what we heard from Congressman Boehner was more of the same, status quo, business-as-usual policies that led us to this crisis.
Just' [...]
Today in a hearing to try and save his job, John Freshwater finally testified. Freshwater is the Mt. Vernon Ohio science teacher accused of using a device to burn crosses into students arms, of having religious materials in his classroom, and of promoting Christianity while criticizing other religions. Freshawater was [...]
Certainly, a key issue in next year's election will be how the average person who works for a living has been screwed over in so many ways — with job losses, wage stagnation, predatory credit-card companies, the foreclosure crisis and its impact on entire neighborhoods and home values etc. etc.
Brian [...]
I mean really, what right do we have to expect anything from the world’s best golfer except the world’s best golf?
That was the argument made Wednesday by “Married Jake” of Glamour Magazine at Yahoo’s “Shine” site.
The item is called “Why Is Everyone Disappointed in Tiger?” (HT Instapundit). [...]
We’re sure Sens. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) are used to being mistaken for one another. But it looks pretty bad when someone running to join them in the Dem caucus does the mistaking.
In an email to supporters sent last night, OH Sec/State Jennifer [...]
The US House of Representatives was expected Friday to pass the most sweeping regulatory overhaul of the financial sector since the Great Depression of the 1930s, a key goal of President Barack Obama.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described the 1,300-page measure, a centerpiece of [...]
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically' [...]
Whether it is George W. Bush’s “too big to fail” Wall Street Bailout fraught with Reagan-era economic theory or last January’s Wall Street-centric stimulus that bypassed Main Street, there is growing recognition in Washington, DC that 2010 demands a 2010 solution.
While conservatives are stuck on Wall [...]
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay [...]
House Republican Leader John Boehner of West Chester urged President Barack Obama to press for congressional approval of pending free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea.
In a letter to Obama, Boehner wrote that “bipartisan support’’ for the three trade deals “already exists’’ in Congress. “In the [...]
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency director Chris Korleski will be in Copenhagen next week for the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
Korleski will be a panelist at the session "Designing Environmental Markets with Equity for All" and plans to post updates daily, Monday through Thursday, on the state agency's' [...]
All right BSB readers, the Senate Republicans have screwed around long enough. It’s time to start making them really own this.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and you do), is to bring up the budget battle to at least three people you know that don’t follow politics [...]
Last night, I attended the December meeting Christmas Party of the Montgomery County Central Committee at Democratic HQ on Wilknson Street.
During the business meeting, the Central Committee voted to implement a provision of Ohio Revised Code that allows the party to simplify the requirements for Central Committee candidacy. Previously, [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) when the blackout expires.
This is the FDR-Era remnant that needs to be banished to the Museum of Awful Ideas:
[...]The announcement of the levy Passage and the dubious circumstances in which it was passed is sure to have local citizens fired up and ready to write Letters to the Editor.
Writing letters to the editor is an art form and many a novice may find themselves at a loss as [...]
It’s no shame being confused. What’s important is to be confused for the right reason.
The Wall Street Journal notes an odd conundrum: American paper, which is to say, the credibility of American debt, is both the best repository of wealth known in the world and unstable.
This shouldn’t be all [...]
I've been waiting all week for them to send notes about last Sunday's New York Times, considered by them to be the worst example of a liberal press.
Why?
There was lots of' [...]
Does Congress have nothing better to do than tell us how to determine who the champion college football team is?
[...]Dec 11, 2009 / 04:53 am
At the Mass marking the 30th Anniversary of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s death, Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan thanked God for the life of the “magnetic” television and radio personality. He said Sheen’s talent and wisdom were at the service [...]
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MAN RECIEVES 6th OVI ARREST TMC NEWS PHOTOS / BRIAN WOODSIn the Something Nice category, in via email to share with readers of GCJ:
CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS DECORATED BY LOCAL FOLK ARTIST TO BE DISPLAYED ON WHITE HOUSE TREE.
Baba (Magdelene) Ujvagi, a Hungarian folk artist from the Birmingham neighborhood of Toledo has been asked by the White House to design and [...]
Meritocracy is a myth? I’m confused.
In the latest example of PC stupidity, we’ll go to Minnesota where …
A branch of the University of Minnesota may require all education students at the school to understand and accept that they are either privileged or oppressed and that they be well-versed in issues [...]
