At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.
Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]
Unemployment continues to skyrocket:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in October, up from 10.1 percent in September, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said today.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 1,400 over the month, from 5,097,000 in September to 5,098,400 in October.
And this [...]
It is fantastic news to hear the Senate is again deadlocked on a budget agreement, but why does Stephen Majors and most Ohio reporters insist on using the phrase “tax cut delay” or “tax freeze?”
Taxpayers must be thrilled that it isn’t actually a tax hike, so they [...]
From the Dayton Daily News this evening:
It is rather amusing to hear Ted Strickland’s office talk about responsible budgeting. By “responsible,” does Spokesbabe Amanda mean: 1) plugging budget holes with incredibly optimistic projections about revenues that could be generated from various morons at slot machines [...]
Later, [Speaker Bill] Harris said: “All of the small businesses that I’ve talked to, including my sons’, feel that [Strickland's proposed income tax "freeze] is absolutely a tax increase.”
Harris has been adamant in the past that he will not vote to raise taxes. Democrats have called the" [...]
An urgent email from the National Taxpayers Union:
Dear Matt,
Governor Strickland’s income tax increase could pass as soon as today if we don’t convince the Senate to reject it. Join us in calling Chairman John Carey and the rest of the Senate Finance Committee and urge them to vote NO [...]
After the tragic shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who reports now indicate had some contact with a radical Islamic cleric, during the Bush Administration, former Alaska governor, now book promoter and serial liar, Sarah Palin called for increased profiling of Muslims in the military [...]
Kyle Sisk beat me to this. A handful of Ohio Republican Senators, will support a compromise version of HB 318 that would include apprixmately 2/3rds of Ted Strickland’s propose tax increase (a freeze on planned income tax reductions) and a handful of “cash management maneuvers” (accounting tricks?) to [...]
Shame on the five Ohio GOP State Senators who are going to join the 12 Senate dems to increase taxes on already overtaxed Ohioans!!!
Way to help Strickland and Redfern, hurt Kasich, Taylor & Husted's chances of winning the Apportionment Board seats and being selfish and weak!
Great job! You should really' [...]
The decrepit, mummified remains of Joe Hallett, fresh off of his campaign for the Columbus income tax increase (which didn’t provide the promised increases in city safety services) continues using the extensive resources of the Columbus Dispatch for his endless hard-hitting investigative reporting campaign for higher taxes. He describes [...]
Downtown Sidney was pronounced dead this morning at approximatly 10:30 a.m. It’s death followed a long battle with Urban Sprawl, Dereliction of Duties of Building Owners, and an increasing love of everything Walmart by Sidney Residents.
Downtown Sidney is survived by a few businesses, mostly restaraunts with the exception of Bunny’s [...]
Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles sound collected and doing business. This is really amazing.From Robert Vitale in The Dispatch:
Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s 2010 budget proposal didn’t go over well yesterday with police and fire forces, whose campaigning helped win passage of the city’s first income-tax increase since the early 1980s.
In his $655 million general-fund budget plan, Coleman proposed adding 50 police officers [...]
Local group joins protest of coal-burning power plant
Nov 8, 2009
Richmond Register
Ronica Shannon
Nov. 8, 2009 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- BEREA -- The Berea-based Kentucky Environmental Foundation (KEF), along with several other non-profit organizations and rural electric co-op members, petitioned the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) on [...]
State Rep. Jennifer Garrison (D-Marietta) held a press conference this morning in the Ladies’ Gallery of the Statehouse to announce the Ballot Integrity Act.
Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called "glenn beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990" was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.
The website was founded by Isaac Eiland-Hall earlier this year in response to a' [...]
This in via e-mail from Kevin Joyce of the The Black Swamp Conservancy:
New Port Clinton Lakefront Preserve Creates Mile-Long Lake Erie Access
Nonprofit, local and state government partnership protects coastal land for new preserve
Port Clinton, OH – The public’s access to Ohio’s Lake Erie coast was recently enhanced with [...]
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