So here’s why we need that Reinvestment Review thingie…
Two of the biggest depositories for City funds are Key Bank and National City. They also used to be two of the biggest home mortgage lenders in city neighborhoods. Most people would assume that they still are.
But look at what I found in the Home Mortgage [...]
I told you so.
Well, no, not really. I thought the killer competition was Florida. Guess the Repubs just weren’t ready to take the risk of a hurricane interrupting their celebration of the Bush era. But they also weren’t ready to schedule their big show in a state that’s looking like an imminent electoral train wreck.
Let’s [...]
… in yesterday’s PD story about the development impact of the proposed Learn and Earn casinos:
Besides construction jobs, the three Cuyahoga County developments would yield 5,300 full-time workers, according to the Greater Cleveland Partnership. Tower City is one of two proposed convention center sites, meaning Forest City could land a slots parlor and convention center [...]
I’m organizing a Pulitzer campaign committee for Becky Gaylord for this morning’s PD front page story (“City let banks ignore law: Lending reports stop for years”). What a freaking great piece of reporting — especially since Gaylord didn’t have it fed to her, but actually dug it up from scratch, according to somebody who knows.
The [...]
Yellow Dog Sammy (aka Jeff Coryell) is extremely unhappy that State Rep. Earl Martin’s campaign ad — featuring a photo lifted without permission from Jeff’s blog, Ohio 2006 — is still on the air, four days after he asked the Martin campaign and the House Republican campaign office to take it down.
So he’s threatening a [...]
Not much, as far as I can see.
With Frank Jackson and other local political leaders jumping on board the so-called Learn and Earn ballot issue — the Constitutional establishment of a couple of big downtown slot machine parlors controlled by Al Ratner and Jeff Jacobs, throwing off money to a Board of Regents scholarship fund [...]
… intends to go right on using a stolen photo in a campaign ad.
From Ohio 2006:
Scott Borgamenke, Chief of Staff for Speaker of the House Jon Husted (R-Dayton), told that Elyria Chronicle yesterday that although the issue of violating my copyright rights (by using my photograph of 57th Ohio House District candidate Matt Lundy in [...]
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AP story via the Benton Foundation.
The analysis showed local ownership of television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news to broadcasts and more than three minutes of ”on-location” news. The conclusion is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted in 2003 to increase the number of television stations a company [...]
From Yellow Dog Sammy at Ohio 2006 yesterday:
State treasurer candidate County Treasurer Richard Cordray (D-Grove City) says gubernatorial candidate Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R-Cincinnati) committed a “pure abuse of authority” and gave disgraced Republican party official and fundraiser Tom Noe a “license to steal” when Noe received unbridled personal authority to invest $25 million [...]