Callahan’s Cleveland Diary

First it was law school, then standup comedy, and now she’s live-blogging beauty pageants.

I hear there’s a story making the rounds that the application process for the Judy Jones seat on the PUCO was re-opened to make room for a specific candidate: Charles R. Moses, president of the Ohio Telecom Association, the telecommunications industry trade group.
Moses’ job makes him, essentially, the chief telecom industry lobbyist in Columbus.
The new [...]

“… no matter how many pieces you break it into, it always comes back together.”
These days, you just can’t consider yourself an educated person if you don’t get Comedy Central. I almost missed Colbert explaining the history of The New AT&T.

I’m not a gamer but Harold at wetmachine is, apparently, and he’s got a scoop for all you guys and gals who’ve been busy accumulating and swapping assets in various pretend economies:

Something to think about while you wait for the speech to start.
In the email from George Zeller of the Center for Community Solutions:
ODJFS and the US Department of Labor released December 2006 employment figures today. Therefore, the Center for Community Solutions has updated its report on Ohio’s record breaking sub-par job growth streak. That update [...]

I don’t know if this has been published anywhere, but I heard it on the grapevine and just confirmed it with a call to the PUCO legal department:
The PUCO Nominating Council has re-opened the process for candidates to apply for the Commissioner seat now held by Judy Jones. An original list of eighty-eight applicants [...]

Since one of the topics of this blog is supposed to be real life in Cleveland, I guess I should report that I got robbed at gunpoint in my backyard Friday evening.
Two gunpoints, actually. Pointed at me by a couple of young men in hoodies who followed me into the backyard as I was returning [...]

I know the Kucinich presidential campaign is a joke. All of Cleveland’s smart people agree about that, so it must be so. But just for the pure randy hell of it, let’s imagine…
Let’s imagine that Dennis Kucinich is a serious guy who actually cares about the human beings, including but not limited to those from [...]

TV Week:
The Ohio congressman was formally named on Wednesday to head the Domestic Policy panel of the House Government Reform Committee. Even before that announcement was made, Rep. Kucinich raised some eyebrows when he told a media reform conference in Memphis that his panel would hold hearings on reviving the Fairness Doctrine and on media [...]

[Cross-posted from ONE Ohio Blog]
Toledo Blade yesterday:
The city of Toledo could become the first major city in Ohio to have wireless Internet access citywide under a proposal presented yesterday by Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
A leading potential bidder is EarthLink, which operates the wireless or “wi-fi” network in Philadelphia, although Buckeye CableSystem, Inc., AT&T, and others are [...]