News – Strickland, DHL, Palin in Lebanon, Obama in Ohio, ODOT, Brunner and ballots, Space, Husted, Kim Jong-Il Revered Glorious Leader, Hurricane Ike, Pakistan-Afghanistan, U.S. Budget Deficit

Ohio News

• Strickland administration says DHL job-cutting plan may be illegal – Columbus Dispatch
• Moonbats wild about Palin in Lebanon – Columbus Dispatch
• Obama wants to double funding for charter schools – Columbus Dispatch

Dear Politicians: Charter Schools are the easy way out. Fix public education.

• ODOT pays $2 million in overtime to workers who aren’t eligible – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio Lawmakers Reluctantly back Bailout – Columbus Dispatch
• Absentee ballot policy under fire – Columbus Dispatch
• Space-Dailey Race – Columbus Dispatch
• Husted won’t say whether he’s SecState candidate – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• J. Kevin Kelley campaign contributors draw FBI scrutiny – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Hurricane Ike

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Across Haiti a Scene of Devastation – Washington Post
• Billions of damage in Cuba, Ike Sets Sites on Texas – Reuters

World News

• Glorious leader almost certainly ill – BBC
• Russians hail Georgia deal as big win – Christian Science Monitor
• U.S. still weighing stronger action against Russia – Los Angeles Times
• Zadari, Karzai pledge new era of cooperation – Washington Post

Has Zadari told the ISI?

• U.S. federal budget deficit approaches $407 billion – Associated Press

Thanks, Shrub! We’re not only safer because you created terrorists over there in Iraq so you could talk about not having to fight them here … you’ve left us bankrupt! You Jackass.

Thursday a.m. – Cuyahoga Flash: FBI Probes Fixing Speeding Tix? WTF?; Traster in OH-58; Sick Days opposed, Keno slammed; Brunner sues; Natl Century execs to big house

Ohio News

• Did Kelley try to influence traffic court in Bera – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Traster to run for Dems in OH-58 – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Brunner sues voting machine maker – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Tribe extends stay at Progressive Field – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Attempt to rally Cuyahoga County workers fizzles – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Phillip Morris: Ohio pretends Keno isn’t casino gambling – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Local leaders oppose mandatory sick days – Middletown Journal
• America’s fastest dying cities – Forbes

Four of the list of ten are in Ohio: Canton, Youngstown, Cleveland, Dayton.

• Editorial: Too much life here to be a ‘dying’ city – Canton Repository
• Boccieri target of new radio ad – Akron Beacon Journal
• Editorial: Sick day proposal doesn’t have to be poison – Dayton Daily News
• National Century execs headed to prison – Columbus Dispatch

Monday a.m. – FBI looks at Cuyahoga County employees’ island retreats, Keno, Solzhenitsyn, China, WaPo-Kaiser-Harvard Poll

Ohio News

• Iraq war taking a back seat – Columbus Dispatch
• Countdown to Keno – Columbus Dispatch

Odds of being a winner: 1 in 9 million. Odds that Pampers and formula money will be spent by people willing to try: 100%

• Agents look into county employees’ island retreats – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Both sides frustrated over immigration issue – Dayton Daily News

National/International

• Op-Ed, Clive Crook: Only luck can save U.S. economy – Financial Times
• Virginia emerges as key battleground state – Washington Post
• New poll shows Obama slim lead with low income voters – Washington Post
• Op-Ed, Fareed Zakaria: Beyond China Bashing – Washington Post
• Op-Ed, Jen Lin-Liu: Beijing under wraps – New York Times
• Solzhenitsyn, defied Soviets, literary giant, dead at 89 – New York 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