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The Daily Briefing: Gee to testify Monday as budget debate continues

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:41:53 -0500

Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee will enter the debate over the state budget fix on Monday when he testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in support of public construction reform being pushed by Senate Republicans.

Lawmakers continue to debate how to fill the $851 million budget hole. [...]

Third Base Politics: Do young voters matter?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:22:00 -0500

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The short answer? Yes.

Did they vote for Obama? Yes.

Can Republicans win many of them back? Absolutely.

A piece from Kristen Soltis drew my interest recently:
For those who are focused on the short-term fortunes of the Republican Party, young voters seem an irrelevant distraction. [...]

Third Base Politics: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs."

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:17:00 -0500

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Thank you, Lee Fisher.

You've chosen your most vulnerable deficiency as your primary campaign message.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher said he would focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs" for Ohio and said the current administration isn't being aggressive enough in that department.First off, we'll ignore Fisher's swipe' [...]

De Magno Opere: Now It's Obama's Economy

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:00 -0500

A few years ago, I pointed out that the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush II economy was going to come crashing down around us. I focused mainly on taxation policy as a means to drive not only consumption but innovation and new sources of industry, but that is [...]

Spinelli On Assignment: GOP lawmakers give Gov. Strickland a choice: Cut a deal with us or cut education funding

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:23:00 -0500

GOP lawmakers give Gov. Strickland a choice: Cut a deal with us or cut education funding December 1, 4:02 PMColumbus Government ExaminerJohn Michael Spinelli Previous Next Comment Print [...]

The Daily Briefing: Budish urges Harris to take extras out of budget fix

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:16:57 -0500

House Speaker Armond Budish told Senate President Bill M. Harris today that he is willing to work with him on construction and prison sentencing reform, but the measures cannot be passed as a part of (the budget fix) in the next week or two.

Given the very short timeline [...]

Spinelli On Assignment: Ohio 6th among states in fallen soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:25:00 -0500

Ohio 6th among states in fallen soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan December 2, 2:11 AMColumbus Government ExaminerJohn Michael Spinelli Previous Comment Print Email [...]

Andy's Angle: Activist Outrage of the Day

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:37:00 -0500

"Save a Turkey, Stuff an Activist" - Bumper Sticker on Uncle John's Pickup Truck

The radical activists doing outrageous things in the areas of environmental and animal rights extremism never cease to amaze me. What has currently flipped my wig, however, is an activist organization I discovered this week called "Breast" [...]

BizzyBlog: Absurd Pronouncement: AP Describes ADP’s Job-Loss Report as Better Than Expected, When It’s Worse

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:12:55 -0500

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The coverage yesterday by the Associated Press’s Stephen Bernard of payroll and human resources giant ADP’s monthly jobs report for November focused on a relatively small reduction in the size of the decline in jobs lost and not on the fact that continuing to lose jobs [...]

Invincible Armor: Elected Officials Flunk Government Quiz

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:26:00 -0500

Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public

The ISI civic Literacy survey was not designed to test the civic knowledge of elected officials, but it did discover evidence of an interesting pattern that may merit further exploration.

All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of [...]