I think I’ve finally figured out the Plain Dealer’s business plan to shore up its dwindling bottom line. It has nothing to do with charging news aggregators royalties to link to its content or putting up a pay wall.
Rather, it plans to blow off all subscribers except several hundred of [...]
Years from now, voters with any memory of the thin, mild-mannered, former Governor and U.S. Senator from Ohio will remember George Voinovich as a moderate budget hawk with a big heart for people.
The saddest part of that memory will be the sheer absurdity on which it is based.
For decades, the [...]
From WKYC Cleveland at 8:48PM Saturday:
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Police Department has issued an Amber Alert for a 2 year old taken from a home on the west side.
Police responded to the area of W. 135th and Bennington for a report of a missing child.
Mercedes Hernandez is 2'10", 24'" [...]
The latest monthy state-by-state unemployment data available here should give pause to GOP activists who seek to blame Gov. Ted Strickland for Ohio's woes. The GOP runs most of the states that are worse off. Playing a blame game could tar a lot of Republican governors. Ohio now stands [...]
What brings Ted Strickland, Bill Harris, Bill Batchelder, Armond Budish, Chris Redfern, Kevin DeWine, and Tom Moyer together in the same room, without resulting in bloodshed or the selling of our state to Michigan in return for casino revenues?
You want this answer to be the budget crisis, don't you?
Well, while' [...]
This weekend (until Noon Monday) is the final qualifying round for OhioDaily Democrat of the Year 2009. In early December, our readers will select from one of nine candidates. The top three finishers this weekend will compete with Betty Sutton, Sherrod Brown, Jennifer Brunner, Jay Goyal, Richard Cordray, and Ted [...]
Cincinnati's Clark Street Blog was inspired to create some new words inspired by Sarah Palin in the hours leading up to her appearance at a local bookstore. She'll be at the Joseph-Beth at noon Friday Nov. 20 signing copies of Going Rogue. Nearly 1,000 tickets have been distributed and another' [...]
Both candidates for the U.S. Senate have been busy today.
Jennifer Brunner had another OpEd on Huffington Post today, calling attention to four key steps she believes congress can take to address the myriad of issues facing America's veterans. It's a smart piece worth reading and I'm hoping to' [...]
Prof. Michael Magazine holds the title Ohio Eminent Scholar. He is a world-class academic recruited into the state to help us fashion a world-class economy. Today he's a disillusioned Ph.D., mortified by a government so unresponsive that it fails to remove dead animals that fall along city streets. [...]
Go back to what you were doing.
[...]Earlier this month, there was wonderment about a young man who seemed to be tracking Jennifer Brunner on the U.S. Senate campaign trail. There was open speculation that Lee Fisher was gathering data on his Democratic primary opponent. While we don't know much about the young man who showed' [...]
Last night, I attended an event at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland called an Interfaith Service of Remembrance, Hope and Action for health care. Its purpose was to memorialize those who have suffered for lack of health care and to energize people going forward. It was sponsored by more than [...]
As 2010 approaches, Governor Ted Strickland faces a rather complex set of political challenges in his campaign to win re-election.
The economic recovery has been slow to take hold in Ohio. Budget cuts and other fiscal moves to balance the state budget are being politicized by the Ohio GOP, [...]
A letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer contends God is punishing the nation's largest Catholic University because President Obama was honored earlier this year on the South Bend campus:
"Notre Damers, quit picking on coach Charlie Weis. There is nothing he can do because it’s out of his hands." [...]
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/senate-liberals-demand...
A group of progressive senators met with majority leader Harry Reid last night to drive home the crucial importance of including a public option in the health-care reform bill.
As the New York Times reports,
"Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who requested the meeting on Monday night with" [...]
It's no secret that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are known globally as ground zero in the foreclosure crisis. Now the CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland says fed researchers see weak state regulation of mortgage lenders in Ohio earlier this decade as largely responsible for the [...]
Apparently, Jennifer Garrison, the state legislator from Marietta who is now running to be the Democratic candidate for secretary of state, has finally discovered elections issues, one of the key functions of the SoS office. The legislature has been working for a while on a bill based on the recommendations [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_el_pr/us_palin_book_fact_check...
Apparently, just about the only true thing in Sarah Palin's newly published "auto" biography is that her name IS Sarah Palin.
If you want to read 400 pages of lies and whining about being picked on, especially by bloggers, be my guest. I'm reading the Motley Crue collective autobiography,' [...]
As I read through my latest crop of hysterical e-mails from right-wing groups like NewsMax and HumanEvents shrieking about "Stop Obamacare! Help us block the government takeover of heath care!!!" or see the latest truth-free quote from some right-wing politician about how wrong it is to work toward helping people [...]
I seriously don't know why I keep stopping by
http://republicanleader.house.gov/
I guess I just like picking my jaw off the floor. Or maybe I feel an obligation to let people here in Ohio know what this Ohio Republican "leader" is up to.
So after watching a little video titled "Pelosi's" [...]
It’s been widely noted today that Cleveland car dealer Tom Ganley, who is challenging Rob “The Job Outsourcer” Portman for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat George Voinovich is vacating, has just become the first candidate in that race to go on the air with a television ad.
The [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot and talking with a lot of people about the passage of Issue 6 in Cuyahoga County and what its aftermath is likely to be. My colleague Damian Guevara and I shared some of our thoughts in this article in Scene.
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/money-talked/Content?oid=1732101
Following a campaign based [...]
Oh joy, oh joy! Just because there's not enough political turmoil in this state, we're going to be blessed with a visit from a certain book-hawking gubernatorial quitter.
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXWh
At least, beleaguered Clevelanders will be spared — for now. You Cincinnatians and Columbsites will want to buy your books and' [...]
Mary Jo Kilroy (Oh-15) speaks out on the Republican congressmen trying to silence Democratic women with shouting:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/10/kilroy-gop-sexist/
Just one more reason we need more women in Congress. Yes, I know that some of these GOP clowns think they can be rude to anyone, but they seem to think that [...]
In a climate that has become exponentially more explosive for the Democratic party around women's reproductive freedom in the last couple of days, Jennifer Brunner has issued a statement supporting those of us who are fed up with being told that women can always be put last, that our rights [...]
We've all read various stories this year pinning Ohio's poor economic condition on the Strickland administration, from sources as diverse as the The Dispatch, The Plain Dealer, and the righty blogosphere. John Kasich is counting on that story for his bid to take Ted's place, featuring a "Jobs Lost Under'" [...]
Here's Dennis Kucinich's statement about why he voted against the health-care reform bill in the House last night. It will be interesting to see if the corporate community — long gunning for him and feeling its oats after its thorough duping of the public on Issue 6 last Tuesday — [...]
The vote was 220-215.
Both our Blue Dogs, Charlie Wilson (Oh-06) and Zack Space (Oh-18), voted for it. If you are in their districts, call and thank them. Wilson: 202-225-5705. Space: 202-225-6265.
Unfortunately, we had two less predictable "no" votes in our Ohio delegation: John Boccieri (Oh-16) and Dennis Kucinich (Oh-10). Kucinich [...]
It’s hard to believe we’re sitting here on a Saturday — with an enormous Democratic majority in congress — facing the possibility that an entire group of the women most in need of legal abortions won’t be able to get them with insurance they have paid for, because they are [...]
Last night, I attended a house party to meet our state auditor candidate David Pepper, who is from Cincinnati and not known up here in Northeast Ohio. A local Democratic activist/ fundraiser invited people to meet him and get to know a little more about him. (This was not a [...]
Then maybe we could be rid of John Boehnhead.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Boehner_mixes_up_Constitu...
[...]While I'm still thinking over what happened last night, the thing that's clearest to me is that the victories of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 are all about one thing: money. I don't have exact figures in front of me right now, but the proponents [...]
Ohio is about to experience the same triumphant economic success that made Detroit the country's safest, cleanest, most profitable city in America. (Yes, I'm joking)
Like it or not, we're getting casinos.
[...]Democratic candidate Keith Wilkowski conceded moments ago in Toledo where Independent candidate Mike Bell narrowly defeated the former County Commissioner in their race for Mayor.
While a recount is possible, this looks to be the second notable mayoral loss for the Dems tonight.
Bell, as he announced in a forum a few [...]
In a shocking upset, Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin has been defeated by Independent candidate Gary Leitzell. Leitzell, the President of the Southeast Priority Board, was endorsed by the Montgomery County GOP. Final numbers had Leitzell with 14,923 votes to McLin's 14,045 votes, a difference of 878.
In the City Commission race, [...]
If you want organic foods grown by local farmers, you may end up with fewer options as BigAg is winning big tonight amending the Ohio Constitution to rewrite the playbook on how our fair state regulates the farming industry - especially in regards to restrictions on pollution and animal treatment. [...]
70% of the vote in - Mike Bell leading Keith Wilkowski 51% to 48% in Toledo Mayor Race.
[...]Luke Scott, the one-man political powerhouse who dared to shake up his stagnating community and fight for the only city he's ever called home, is now a Councilman-elect in Wellston. We profiled him here last summer. He becomes the youngest elected official in the state of Ohio.
[...]Adam Schneider, the 18 year old candidate in Lancaster who we profiled this summer, has lost his race for Lancaster School Board. Despite running a very strong campaign, Schneider failed to make the final cut finishing with a respectable 16% of the vote in a four way race.
[...]With just over half of all Franklin Co. precincts reporting, the trends remain largely as they were before, with one major exception: Issue 3.
What had been a slight margin against the casino initiative has turned into something of a route at this point, with the "nays" having it 58% -42%. [...]
From 13abc : Toledo Mayor - 41% of Precincts Reporting Keith Wilkowski 15,155 50%, Mike Bell 15,084 50%
[...]Call her Councilwoman-elect, but Jill Miller Zimon of Pepper Pike and of the blog "Writes Like She Talks" has won her race according to a campaign source. More to come...
[...]With 29% in, Keith Wilkowski is leading Mike Bell in the race for Toledo Mayor - 51% to 49%
[...]With around 25% in in Franklin Co., we're starting to see results solidifying.
Results locally on Issues 1 and 2 mirror those statewide: Issue 1 enjoys a 75% -25% edge, while Issue 2 sits at a comfortable 60% - 40% margin.
We've seen a great deal of movement on Issue 3, however: [...]
Quick glance at the early voting in Cuyahoga...
Issue 5 going down in flames (or at least it appears so, but hard to tell where the votes are coming from). Issue 6 is now well ahead (a complete opposite of Issue 5.
The local counts on the Issues 1, 2, and 3 [...]
In the first installment of a two part release of absentee ballots tonight, the Franklin County Board of Elections shed some light on how the issue campaigns fared in early voting in Ohio's fastest growing urban area.
The power of "the troops" as a political panacea appears to continue holding incredible [...]
I know. It's very, very early (only 1% of the vote in so far), but given where those votes are coming from I think we can make a few quick observations about the fate of the state ballot issues.
So far, we've gotten precincts in Lake, Allen, and Geauga counties. That's [...]
My, that was quick. MSNBC just called this for McDonnell...a mere 15 minutes or so after my post. Now, the only question is how bad.
With 25% of precincts reporting, MSNBC is showing a long night ahead for Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds of Virginia. He currently trails Republican Bob [...]
Per the Secretary of State's recent email, the Summit County Board of Elections requested permission to photocopy paper ballots to compensate for a ballot shortage. Permission was granted, and voting ended at 7:30pm.
This is the only major issue we've heard of today with respect to voting difficulties, a good sign' [...]
Nothing irritates me more than apathetic cynics who whine about how all politicians are the same and that nothing ever changes and nothing you do can influence your government. To me, it's a rationalization for laziness. Back in 2004, I was accosted down at the Rock Hall by a man [...]
Join us tonight as we try to call your attention to everything we can find noteworthy across the state as results start coming in. Live coverage begins at 8PM.
Will Issue 3 pass? Will Wilkowski become Mayor of Toledo? Will Jason Haas be re-elected to the Akron School Board? Will Jill [...]
Cuyahoga County's Issue 5 made it on the air with a last minute TV buy. Here's the spot featuring former Congressional Representatives Lou Stokes and Mary Rose Oakar (along with photos of Marcia Fudge, Dennis Kucinich and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson).
It’s helpful to think of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 as being about the attempt to buy democracy away from the voters. They seem to be about one thing (livestock standards and food safety, casinos, government reform) but they’re really about something else: a jockey [...]
As I’m writing this, the polls open in Ohio in about 36 hours, and there’s little more to say about the issues on the ballot, or at least, the state issues. There’s been little controversy — and little lying — around state Issue 1, floating bonds to pay a bonus [...]
There looks to be an interesting story about $4,800 contributed to Lee Fisher's U.S. Senate campaign some six weeks ago. The two $2,400 checks came from John and Mary Dasburg of Key Biscayne, Fla. John Dasburg -- besides being a Bush-Cheney donor -- is the CEO and President of Astar [...]
We all know that casino issues never come out and say they are about casinos. Issue 3 deceptively dubbed itself “Ohio Jobs and Growth” right out of the gate. Its signs and mailers don’t say things like, “We should be able to gamble close to home” or “If other states [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice,” paraphrasing an abolitionist from the 1850s.
Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire, told an overflowing sanctuary at Trinity Cathedral downtown last night that he believes the justice [...]
Joe Lacey of the Dayton Board of Education is running for re-election and makes his Five Minute Pitch. Visit his website at joelaceyblog.blogspot.com or contribute at VictoryFund.org
Toledo Mayoral Candidate Keith Wilkowski took us up on the offer of making a Five Minute Pitch to Ohio Progressives. Here's his best case for why he should be the next Mayor of Toledo.
Want your candidate pitched? Email anthony@ohiodailyblog.com and we'll try to get it recorded and posted' [...]
The race for Cincinnati City Council is starting to get a little shaky in the closing hours as several Democrats are privately steaming about endorsed candidate Laure Quinlivan's campaign email blast from Tuesday night.
In the email, highlighting her new campaign TV spot featuring Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and Hamilton County [...]
Those of you waiting on Lee Fisher to come out and take a meaningful stance on a hot issue finally have your wish. According to a Plain Dealer article this evening, Fisher endorsed the controversial Issue 6 proposal this afternoon, apparently by way of an endorsement statement. OhioDaily had [...]
As a print-media person myself and until fairly recently a regular daily newspaper reader, I find myself with mixed feelings today on looking at the just-released figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation on the decline in print-media circulation across the country. The San Francisco Chronicle, for instance, suffered a [...]
This past Saturday in chilly and blustery Columbus, around 90 brave souls stood on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse and joined a chorus of hundreds of thousands worldwide calling for real and immediate international action to combat global climate change.
The small but enthusiastic gathering was part of a joint [...]
I don't have TV personally (no cable and too lazy to work on figuring out how to hook up my digital box) but for those of you who do, Dennis Kucinich will be on C-SPAN's Washington Journal tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.
According to his press release, "There will be an'" [...]
"Sherrod Brown Decries Wall Street Bonuses."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/10/sherrod-brown-decries-wall-stre...
“Well, where have these people led us? These brilliant people on Wall Street that have produced so much money for themselves and they’re such geniuses, where have they led this country?
Good questions, Seantor Brown.
[...]I glanced this morning at someone’s Plain Dealer that was lying around, and I could not believe my eyes. I looked around for another copy to make sure someone hadn’t created a dummy version of today’s front page. Although the PD has occasionally done a little honest reporting on Issue [...]
I haven’t mentioned health care lately, even though it’s one of the uppermost issues in my mind (when I’m not trying to pick shards of the state and county issues out of my brain!). But we’re getting down to crunch time, as the House and Senate are both working toward [...]
Sherrod Brown has said that he has already voted, and he voted against Issue 3. “I think there are better ways to create jobs, and my focus has always been job creation,” he told Ohio News Network’s Capitol Square show.
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2009/10/16/Sherrod_Brow...
Responded the spokesperson for the issue, “Senator [...]
Editor's Note : This Op-Ed by Jennifer Brunner appears from the Forums section of OhioDaily
“Call me the underdog,” I said, in response to a reporter’s question about fundraising seven months before the primary election contest for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio.
Polls show me competitive in a race [...]
There’s so much nonsense flying around on the various state and county (Cuyahoga) issue campaigns that it’s taking me a while to dig out and compose my thoughts. The campaign that seems to have engendered the most flat-out nonsense is Issue 2, the creation via constitutional amendment of a “Livestock [...]
The Democratic Senate race is getting some extra attention on both sides of the aisle this week as all sides agree that Lee Fisher will be the Democratic nominee come May of 2010. My problem is I don't agree with that conclusion - yet.
This back-and-forth over money has been going' [...]
(HT: Dispatch.)
As temperatures fall across Ohio and we hover near the one year anniversary of the market's Big Burp, signs of a turnaround are beginning to appear. First, stimulus programs began to go into effect in earnest. Then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 10,000 mark.
In the [...]
Toledo Democrat Keith Wilkowski seems well-positioned to take out former State Fire Marshall Mike Bell in the Toledo Mayoral Race. Most Dems have endorsed him including Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and ODP. He's swinging on TV today with a new spot calling out Bell's recent statements that economic development is not [...]
It's crunch time for 2009 candidates. With two weeks to go, you've got precious little time to reach the voters. Here at OhioDaily, we're giving you one more way to do it - or at least reach potential donors and supporters who can help you down the stretch.
If you or [...]
Or neither?
Since Jill Miller Zimon is preoccupied with her race for city council in Pepper Pike (see post below!) and can’t post another 57 million reasons to vote against casino gambling, I guess I’ll have to jump into the breach. My take is a bit different from hers: I’m against [...]
It occurred to me after receiving an e-mail this morning from Jill Miller Zimon with her remarks from last night’s Pepper Pike Civic League Candidates Night, and reading the plug for her city council candidacy on Buckeye State Blog today, that I should probably post something about her race too.
Jill [...]
It was only a few weeks ago that I heard about state Issue 2 for the first time. Now I seem to be hearing about it everywhere — which is good. I’m sure many people are initially as confused as I was.
This is the issue that would create via [...]
It's been a quiet month for endorsements, but the Fisher for Senate campaign landed their fourth congressional trophy this afternoon announcing the support of Canton-area Congressman John Boccieri. Boccieri joins Charlie Wilson, Zack Space and Tim Ryan in supporting Fisher. While the congressional trend is leaning towards Lee, there are [...]
As the budget crisis continues to grow (again), SEIU came out firing with a new :30 spot that isn't talking about library cuts or services for seniors. Oh, no no no, my friends. This one is throwing heat and not wasting any time getting to the point. If the Ohio' [...]
A poll commissioned by the national blog Daily Kos found that 37% of constituents in John Boehner's congressional district (OH-08) want a public option as part of national health care reform - and this from a district that generally can't stand President Obama or Senator Sherrod Brown.
The poll,' [...]
My mother was an active League of Women Voters member most of her life, eventually working her way up to president of the Chicago Region LWV. She never had a paid job, but devoted herself to her League work as tirelessly as if it were a paid career. (She was [...]
T-Pain and The Nobel Peace Prize Winner sing about health care. (HT: Connie Schultz w/ cameo by PD's Steve Koff)
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[...]A release from Chris Redfern popped into my e-mail box a little while ago. It’s headed “Toledo Blade praises Jennifer Brunner, slams Jon Husted.”
Well, that’s always a good thing, in my opinion.
“I wanted to be sure you saw the editorial below, which was printed in today’s Toledo Blade,” he says. [...]
The Neocons are not gone.
The top ones may be fading into retirement, but they planted seeds that are sprouting a new generation with a similar threat of military action.
Michael Singh, who spoke Tuesday about Iran at the Mandel Jewish Community Center, said any policy toward Iran and its “obvious” [...]
I realize that picking on Fox News for their lack of journalistic integrity is like picking on the fat kid at camp because he takes a second helping at dinner, but this is just too much.
In reporting today that Marge Simpson will grace the cover of Playboy Magazine and feature [...]
This morning's announcement that Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize comes as a bit of a surprise to most media pundits - including this one. But, after a week of conservative gloating over America's loss of the 2016 Olympics, today should refocus the hate back on the President.
While [...]
When you pick up your phone and say hello, and there's a pause of several seconds before a recorded voice starts to speak, you know it's robocall season.
Last night, I got two robocalls about the Cuyahoga County reform issues: One from Real Reform Done Right (Yes on 5, No [...]
(HT BSB and Columbus Dispatch.)
As we're all aware, the Ohio budget is in trouble. Following the Supreme Court's ruling that video lottery terminals weren't an acceptable answer to that problem, Gov. Strickland proposed a new fix: plugging the budget hole by delaying the implementation of a previously-scheduled tax [...]
We generally don't cut-and-paste press releases, especially not word-for-word, but this one out of the office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich today frames the story better than anything we could write.
Those of us up in Dennis' back yard know that this bill has been a pet project of his for some [...]
I don’t know how many of you recall the case of a woman who was gang-raped while working for Halliburton in Iraq about four years ago. In addition to being treated like dirt and denied medical care, she was forbidden by her employment contract to seek legal redress.
Today, Sen. Al [...]
Anastasia Pantsios, Bradley L. Cromes, Anthony Fossaceca, Bill Sloat, Jennifer Brunner
