Sunday Papers September 14 – OSU?, Tax abatements as development tool, Dimora, Cuyahoga Corruption, Opinion, Obama, McCain, Browns Gameday

Ohio State Destroyed in LA

• West Toast – Columbus Dispatch

Ohio News & Opinion

• State failing to track new jobs – Columbus Dispatch
• Abatement help – Columbus Dispatch
• McCain tax cuts simply too pricey says Greenspan – Columbus Dispatch
• D.C. Dispatches – Columbus Dispatch
• Pair wonder why their names on inventory list from Dimora’s office – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Endorsement: Moran for Ohio House 42 – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Obama-ites should take a deep breath – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Joe Frolik: Polls seem to show and Ohio up for grabs – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Explaining Ohio’s voting patterns difficult – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Goodyear complex coming together – Akron Beacon Journal
• Editorial: Troubled by term limits – Akron Beacon Journal
• Op-Ed, Michael Douglas: Battleplan for Ohio – Akron Beacon Journal
• Two Governors talk Obamanomics in NW Ohio – Toledo Blade

Cleveland Browns GameDay

• Can Browns erase Black & Gold nightmare? – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Browns v. Steelers Game Preview – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Pluto on Offense – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Shaw on Defense – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Ohio Newsbreak

  

• Crime fighter showdown: Cordray v. Crites - The Other Paper
• Ohio’s rules hinder progress say ‘business leaders’ – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• 12 OHP Troopers fired for cheating on test – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Strickland orders $540 million more in state cuts – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Cuyahoga party leaders talk politics – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Keep politicians sticky fingers off of Third Frontier money – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Biden honors emergency services workers – Columbus Dispatch
• What’s next for Wilmington, air park? – Columbus Dispatch
• Governor: No probe of safety official – Columbus Dispatch
• 7^th U.S. House District: Race Profile – Columbus Dispatch
• Candidates spar on taxes, sick leave – Columbus Dispatch
• Red tape holds down Ohioans; Task Force says – Columbus Dispatch

Time Out for News: Grand Jury begins in Cuyahoga Corruption probe, grading Ohio’s schools, Cleveland is pretty poor, Convention news from Dispatch

Ohio News

• Federal Grand Jury begins meeting in Cuyahoga Corruption probe – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Cleveland is nation’s second-poorest big city – Associated Press
• Emotional start in Denver – Columbus Dispatch
• Grading your schools – Columbus Dispatch

• Columbus Mayor’s security not going to Denver – Columbus Dispatch

I would hope the Mayor’s security isn’t going to Denver – I mean outside of Central Ohio, who the hell is Mike Coleman? It would be pretty presumptuous and egotistical for the Mayor to drag his security and the taxpayers’ wallets around the country on political trips. Actually, does the Mayor even need security in CMH?

• State panel OK with Medicaid drug rule – Columbus Dispatch
• McCain tries to split up Dems – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP needs Ohio most: Dems – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Silver Linings – Columbus Dispatch
• Paramount Studios seeks economic incentives from Ohio – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Buckeye Institute proposes dropping income tax – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Thursday A.M. Read – Sick Days, Dimora, Uninsured, Brunner, Marc Dann!, Russia v. Georgia, Rice, McCain, Energy Policy

Ohio News

• Editorial: Sick Leave Fight May Require a Power Play by Strickland – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Number of uninsured in Ohio may be higher than report shows – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Political party leaders spar over election rule – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Prominent Dems want Dimora out – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• By 2042, minorities to be majority – Columbus Dispatch
• Anniversary: Largest blackout in US history – Columbus Dispatch
• Dann had rejected favorite for Academy – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP Fear: Voting too soon – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP pushes Cordray to return money – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Full Accounting on Factory Farms – Columbus Dispatch

National/International News

• Russian forces begin pullout from Gori – VOA
• Rice says Russia faces isolation – BBC
• Bush squares up to Putin – Times of London
• Russia rejects West’s call to recognize Georgian sovereignty – The Guardian
• Op-Ed, John McCain: We are all Georgian – Wall Street Journal
• Now is the key time for energy in presidential race – NY Magazine
• Insurgency’s scars mar Afghan main road – New York Times
• GOP in House at risk in NE – New York Times

Tuesday a.m. Clips – Ohio Rs: No to Romney; Ohio Highway Patrol sexiness; Dimora & Russo; Ohio AG race; War of Russian Aggression; Dimora & Russo; Payday lending; Debunking offshore drilling

Ohio News

• Ohio activists reject Romney – Columbus Dispatch
• Troopers in trouble over romances – Columbus Dispatch

It’s time for Ohio Highway Patrol to resubmit to civilian authority – racism and sexiness too much – if the Army can take orders from W, OHP can bend to Strickland, Guzman

• McClendon wrongly held by state for 18 years – Columbus Dispatch

Original prosecutors and anyone else who stood in the way of justice in these cases should be disbarred.

• Dimora – Russo probe began long ago – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio AG race overview – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Opposing sides in payday lending fight over ballot language – Dayton Daily News
• Wind may hold energy and Ohio jobs – Mansfield News Journal
• Strickland: Ohio education system stuck in past – Newark Advocate
• Diebold to close Hebron plants – Newark Advocate

National/International News

• Russia orders halt to war in Georgia – Reuters
• What does Georgia want from Russia – NPR
• Russia says it has halted aggression – New York Times
• Healing wounds, Putin calls shots – New York Times
• Bayh offers risks and rewards – New York Times
• Global trail of online crime ring – New York Times
• Editorial: Russia’s War of Ambition – New York Times
• Endangered Species Act eyed – Washington Post
• Bush questions Moscow’s motives – Washington Post
• Editorial: ‘Snake Oil’ – Washington Post

Cuyahoga Corruption Probe Update: Week 2 So Far

Rs want internal investigation & more

• Republicans want internal Cuyahoga investigation – Associated Press

Pure grandstanding. Does Cuyahoga Republican Party Chairman Rob Frost think there is anyone – a single human resource – in Cuyahoga County who can value add to what the IRS, FBI, Interpol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the CIA, and Seal Team 7 are doing to investigate Russo, Dimora, and the gang?

• Editorial: Russo misplaces his loyalty again – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Mark Naymik: Dimora, Russo – Cuyahoga’s beloved, besieged politicians – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Russo fights to keep rowdy night club open – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Wishful thinking – GOP wants Obama to denounce Dimora, Russo – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Saturday Morning Papers – Central OH adds jobs, troopers moonlight, Cuyahoga Corruption, Dem platform, Gitmo, Obama, Fuel Economy, Unemployment 4 Yr High

Ohio News

• Illegal signs in right of way – Columbus Dispatch

Finally, someone may be doing something about these eyesores. My pet peeve is these signs that look like your neighbor hand-lettered, but when you call the number to inquire about the hot tub or whatever it’s a business. There’s enough visual pollution out there, these things are a nuisance. I ask myself, what would Edward Abbey do? He’d take ‘em or knock ‘em down. If our cities are not going to keep public property clean, we should all start destroying these things. Maybe the business community will get the idea we don’t want this ridiculous advertising.

• Central Ohio has actually added jobs – Columbus Dispatch

• Ohio Dept. of Public Safety reviewing workers’ 2^nd jobs – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Where should politicians spend campaign funds? – Columbus Dispatch
• Cuyahoga County Corruption Prosecutor shuns spotlight – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Dems meet in Cleveland for platform conference – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Talk at Mason outing turns to FBI Raid – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Why is Bill Mason not involved in corruption probe? – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Budgetary fantasies of McCain, Obama – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Dimora, Russo can’t hide behind arrogance – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio bars countdown to Keno – Toledo Blade
• Delphi workers SSNs on missing flash drive – Dayton Daily News
• Editorial: Governor took heat school board deserved – Dayton Daily News

National/International News

• Automakers race time as their cash dwindles – New York Times
• With Genie out of bottle, Obama careful on race – New York Times
• Terror trial nears end – New York Times
• Congress Adjourns but talks on oil persist – New York Times
• Editorial: Time, Finally for Real Fuel Economy – New York Times
• An unwelcome, persistent issue – Washington Post
• Jobless rate hits a high, dims hope for recovery – Washington Post

From CNN

FBI Cuyahoga Probe – Thursday Late Nite Wrap

• Russo’s real estate transactions draw feds’ attention – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Dimora says he was shocked and stunned by investigation – Fox 8 Cleveland
• Tax payers won’t pay county workers legal bills in federal probe – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Silence speaks volumes as reticent Dimora reads statement – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Full Text: Commissioner Dimora’s statement – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cuyahoga Corruption - Update

Cleveland Media

• Kevin Kelley long employed by county – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ferris Kleem’s house valued at 1995 price despite improvements – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ameritrust project part of probe – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Governor weighs in – NewsNet 5
• Russo returns to work – WKYC
• DAS construction says it’s not target of probe – Crain’s Cleveland Business
• Op-Ed, Elizabeth Sullivan: A Justice Dept. twisted by partisanship – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Feds examining VA hospital project – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Wednesday Clips – Jobs and China, Dimora, Russo, Sick Days, Bridges, Obama, Cali Quake, Etc.

Ohio News

• China siphons Ohio’s jobs – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio bridges rated safe but costly work ahead – Columbus Dispatch
• Election Board has plan for long lines – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio Roundtable to fight sick days – Columbus Dispatch
• Capital Notes – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio EPA chief asks Congress to restore regional rules – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Make it right – Columbus Dispatch
• Cuyahoga Corruption: Probe bad for Democrats? – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Raids sought records that could show favors, influence – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Raid kept secret, even from agents – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• How Democrats would replace them – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Bush visits factory, attends fundraiser – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Some BP gas customers charged twice – Associated Press (Dayton Daily News)
• Suspected bombs found at two Ohio Post Offices – Associated Press (Toledo Blade)

Nation/World

• CIA outlines Pakistan links with militants – New York Times
• Energy prices bright sliver in grim economy – New York Times
• Teaching law, testing ideas, Obama stood out – New York Times
• With security at risk a race to patch the Web – New York Times
• ‘Really scary’ quake in Chino Hills – Los Angeles Times
• Quake registers 5.4 – Los Angeles Times

Cuyahoga Corruption Case: Day 2

Not a peep from Russo, Dimora

• Dimora items seized include schedule books, campaign memos – Associated Press
• Cuyahoga County official under federal investigation owns island homes – WKYC
• Jones expects Dimora to resume county work – Crain’s Cleveland Business
• Could federal corruption probe affect Med Mart? – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Keep an eye on corruption scandal in Ohio – National Review Online

Dimora and Russo at Center of Federal Probe

Jimmy Dimora (left) and Frank Russo (right)

Coverage from the Plain Dealer

• Corruption Probe Profiles: The people and places – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Federal raids target Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Raids shut down county offices, rattle workers – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Tangled web of friendship, favors – Cleveland Plain Dealer

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