Sunday Morning Papers – Marc Dann et. al. called ‘pond scum,’ by hometown paper; Strickland, Education tour, DHL, Housing, Noe, Ohio EPA

Ohio News

• City wild about Obama, Strickland – Lancaster Eagle Gazette

The above link is the headline taken from the Gazette. It cracked me up because Lancaster is one of those areas that reflexively votes Republican. It’s Central Ohio’s little slice of Orange County. Getting 100 Dems out down there is a good thing. Not sure if that city is ‘wild’ about Obama, but if the donkeys keep working hard and staying on message we may win some extra hearts and minds this year.

• Op-Ed, Dennis Willard: Governor’s 12-city tour seems sincere – Akron Beacon Journal

Seems?! Apparently the ABJ didn’t read my post on these education forums. You can here. Governor Strickland is doing something we’re apparently not used to as Americans in the Bush/Cheney era, he’s reaching out to his constituents.

• Op-Ed, Bertram DeSouza: Slow down rush to settle AG harassment cases – Youngstown Vindicator

Holy Crikey. DeSouza unloads on the Troubled Trio (Dann, Jennings, Gutierrez) by calling them “pond scum” and “pus-filled boils on this regions backside.” He basically brands Jenn Urban a gold digger. The essential point is that the next attorney general should determine how many of our tax dollars go down the drain in settlements to the alleged victims of sexual harassment under the Dann regime. He may have something there.

• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Ohio’s term limits lead to unlimited trickery – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio allowed more flexibility under ‘No Child Left Behind’ – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• State crisis team reacts to possible DHL layoffs – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Mark Moran: 400,000 reasons to care about health care reform in Cuyahoga County –Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Media needs to get balanced for election – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: PUCO needs to hold hearings publicly where people have access – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Pinching pennies at the Ohio State Fair – Columbus Dispatch
• Housing Rescue: Too Little, Too Late? – Columbus Dispatch (Washington Post)
• State works on Medicaid claims delays – Columbus Dispatch
• Plan to lessen smog hits brakes – Columbus Dispatch
• State to require extra ID for registering vehicles – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Americans awash in debt – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Recouping money in coin scandal doesn’t minimize Noe’s crime – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: Strickland Ed Forum Taught Me a Lesson: He’s Right On – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Bill Hershey: Strickland ‘conversation’ set for Dayton – Dayton Daily News
• Ohio EPA concerned about smog rules – Associated Press (Dayton Daily News)