From Nashville Post:
The Nashville Convention Center will be the future home of Nashville’s massive medical trade center if Metro lawmakers give it the green light early next year.
The Nashville Medical Trade Center, [...]
New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel announced today the release of a request for proposals (RFP) for the development of offshore wind power projects in the New York State waters of Lake Erie and/or Lake Ontario. Not only will this represent the first [...]
US Senate Candidate Rob Portman offers a rather bold proposal to stimulate the economy:
The Cincinnati Republican spoke in Cleveland Friday afternoon. Among his proposals was one that he maintains would jump-start both hiring, and spending.
Portman said “to spur immediate investment by employers and encourage consumption by employees; I support [...]
This is the same company behind the successful Issue 3 casino campaign. I wonder why they are doing this?
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Over the last few days, we've recommended great Ohio-made products you can give for the holidays. A complete listing is here in our fancy Buy Ohio, Give Ohio holiday shopping section.
Today, we're going to feature something you can give/shop to double your Ohio impact. If you're in Cleveland,' [...]
Not surprisingly, some construction contractors are feeling left out after they were not invited by Senate Republicans to testify on a proposed overhaul of public construction laws.
Leaders of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association sent a letter this week to Sen. John A. Carey [...]
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and David Vitter (R-La.) no doubt thought they were being clever. They crafted an amendment that would force members of Congress to get their coverage through a public insurance plan, if the public option were included as part of health care reform. [...]
Gut the income tax, kill the death tax, reduce regulations and taxes on businesses Publish a “slick” new online magazine featuring cities in Michigan?:
COLUMBUS — A slick new online magazine designed to promote Ohio features Grand Haven, Saugatuck, East Grand Rapids and other cities you won’t find on an [...]
Kristof’s column about a patient who can’t get treatment is best described as a pack of lies from beginning to end.
Michelle exposed it, and doubled down (with additional links; just go there), by doing something Kristof apparently wasn’t interested in doing: research.
If Kristof’s piece is the best [...]
The madness of distorting the marketplace with helicopter money dumps never ends:
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved $11 million to fund rebates for Ohioans who purchase energy efficient appliances.
The money, which comes from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), will provide nearly 90,000 rebates to residential consumers who [...]
Community Renewal International ([www.sbcr.us]) is using open networks to bring prosperity back to inner city neighborhoods. They are focused on intentionally building the relationships needed for a community to survive and thrive.
Today, Community Renewal is meeting with its investors to explore new measures of impacts.
The paper below [...]
For more than a week, Sen. Sherrod Brown and his staff tried to get his name attached as a co-sponsor to a Republican health care amendment. Nine times his staff members contacted the office of GOP senators and nine times they came away without any answer.
So today, Brown, [...]
The Ohio Democratic Party hosts another of its "Knockout" presentations this Monday in Cleveland. Previous events in other parts of the state have turned out impressive traffic including 350 people in Youngstown on a Sunday morning and 207 in Maumee who came despite a driving rainstorm and tornado warnings.
Monday's event [...]
In addition to DeWine firing his spokesman, DeWine’s fundraiser, Amanda Sima is leaving the sinking Titanic known as the Mike DeWine for Attorney General campaign. Amanda is one of the most prominent Republicans fundraisers in Ohio, and I had the pleasure of working with her on the Blackwell campaign [...]
Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests [...]
This is it. The final weekend. This is the time when you will select from the nine finalists for "OhioDaily's Ohio Democrat of the Year 2009."
Polls are open until Monday at noon. VOTE HERE!
The winner will be presented with a trophy perfect for display on their government issued desk.
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of an Ohio integrated biorefinery project to receive more than $19.9 million in Recovery Act funding to accelerate the construction and operation of a pilot scale facility. Today’s selection is part of 19 [...]
Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women.
The vote was 61 to 39, with three Republicans joining 56 Democrats and the two independents [...]
Boy do I feel foolish, I think this guys ad even ran on my blog.
So it seems there is a Republican Primary challenger. Why on earth would the Republican party hide this light under a bushel? His name is Tom Ganley.
So in the interest of always rooting for the underdog, [...]
Only 11,000 jobs lost in November, Unemployment rate dips to 10 percent
The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the recession began. The better-than-expected job figures are a rare note of encouraging news for the [...]
An executive whose Oregon-based windows and doors company has plants in Ohio went to the White House jobs summit yesterday, his invite at the recommendation of Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover.
Attending the summit, which President Obama convened to address tackling the still double digit unemployment rate, was Ron Saxton, [...]
Sarah Palin declared on Thursday that the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate is "rightfully" an issue with the American public, and that it is "fair game" [...]
Run-up: ADP reported 169,000 jobs lost in the private sector during November in the national employment report it released Wednesday.
This quickie note at a local Fox station predicts the unemployment rate will be unchanged at 10.2% and that 130,000 seasonally adjusted jobs will be lost. That same prediction is [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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The three disappearing acts cited in the column are:
The $80.7 billion in “reorganization gains” (i.e., gains resulting from the fleecing of taxpayers and creditors) recognized by [...]
By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.
Nov 28, 2009
"There's mounting evidence that the $787 billion economic stimulus he signed in February—combined with the bank bailout package—prevented an economic depression. Should the stimulus have been larger? Should it have been more weighted [...]
From D’Iberville, Mississippi:
Posted: Dec 02, 2009 9:31 AM
Updated: Dec 02, 2009 1:07 PM
A 19-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after her car ended up at the bottom of the Tchoutacabouffa River Wednesday morning. A D’Iberville Police officer happened to be on Lamey Bridge Road checking the river [...]
Our friends at Cato think Larry Summers doesn’t know what he’s doing: “Summers’ Corporate Tax Confusion”
Pish-tosh. Summers and Obama know exactly what they’re doing. Corporations don’t pay taxes. Consumers do, and maybe stockholders pitch in a little (of course, in a healthy America, which Summers and Obama do not [...]
Our actions and policies should be motivated by long-term goals.Dennis Spisak will seek to protect valuable natural resources, safely disposing of or “unmaking” all waste we create, while developing a sustainable economics that does not depend on continual expansion for survival. He will counterbalance the drive for [...]
This one was for real, though
Missy found this one.
Fifty-one years ago in 1958, Edmund O’Keeffe, an Irish flight engineer, was reported dead by the Evening Press on Christmas Eve after a fatal air crash in Britain which killed nine people.
The test flight of the Bristol Britannia 312 (to gain [...]
I normally write about what I found of interest in the Sojourner’s Truth on the weekend, but this morning, I had the chance to read two of the articles, I didn’t want to wait. As I sat down to share those, I found another one I recommend. First, [...]
See if you can out run a scorned woman with a golf club 
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists will be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington. 
