Today the Plain Dealer editorial page raps the Strickland Administration’s knuckles for slow motion on statewide broadband deployment, complaining that “Strickland has paid little attention to this once-prominent element of his campaign platform”.
But two months ago, that same editorial page was calling on the Ohio Senate to strip the phase one funding for the Governor’s [...]
Remember last August when the Plain Dealer cleared its front page for this?
Remember this little graphic down at the bottom?
Where’d that scarily precise number come from? It was based on the U.S. Census’ “American Community Survey” estimate that Cleveland’s 2005 population had fallen to just over 414,000, compared to around 465,000 in 2000 (and 478,000 [...]
Via Scott Suttell, apparently the Wall Street Journal has revealed what Bob Schmidt is really up to in that so-called “Innovation Center”. At least they’ve revealed it to subscribers, which I’m not, so I only know what Scott has reprinted.
But I bet the WSJ doesn’t know the part about Young Astronauts. Well, I’ll never tell…
The Commissioners want to raise at least $400 million (by spending upwards of $700 million in sales taxes on bond payments over the next thirty years) to buy a new public Convention Center.
The $400 million is not an actual investment which the Commissioners expect to earn back, e.g. through rental revenue. It’s a straight-up expenditure. [...]
So here’s what I can’t figure out:
If Commissioners Hagan and Dimora go ahead and pass a $40 million convention center sales tax increase, it will end up on the ballot and it will be defeated. It’s hard to believe they don’t know this. After all, they’re as much as admitting that voter opposition is why [...]
BFD’s “sneak peek” yesterday at Thomas Mulready’s write-up of the county commissioners’ proposed sales tax hike says:
Rather than put it on the ballot, Cuyahoga County commissioners voted Tuesday to initiate public hearings to raise the County sales tax themselves by one-quarter of a cent, to 1.25%. Half the increase ($20M a year for 30 years) [...]
The end of local cable franchising is not quite law in Ohio, not yet. The Ohio Senate must accept the House’s changes to SB 117, or a conference committee must reconcile the two versions, and the Governor must sign the final product. But this will all happen in a matter of days. The argument is [...]
In my email, from the North Shore Federation of Labor:
Attached is a flyer for the EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT.
We just learned that the bill will be debated in the Senate starting Monday and a vote for Closure will be held on Wednesday June 20th.
Please send a delegation to the rally for the EMPLOYEE [...]
Every single Democrat voted for it.
The two “No” votes were Republicans Tom Brinkman of Cincinnati and Jeff Wagner of Seneca County.
My Representative, Eugene Miller, never bothered to respond to an email I sent him about SB 117 weeks ago. He apparently never responded to messages from my neighbors Tim and Gloria Ferris, either — at [...]
Okay, notwithstanding my big fat “whoops” this morning, here’s my bottom line on the version of Senate Bill 117 that cleared the House Public Utilities Committee yesterday and will be voted on by the whole Ohio House tomorrow: It’s extremely bad news. Your State Representative should vote against it. You should tell your State Representative [...]