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17

Cincinnati Post to cease operations 12/31/07

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From Jim Romenesko.

Here’s the Post’s piece on it.

Bill (Sloat), other patrons in that area – thoughts? Expected, yes?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:56 pm July 17th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off 

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17

Beacon Journal on EMILY’s List training in Columbus last week

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Thanks to Christina for posting this link at Progress Ohio. I couldn’t attend both days so had to miss out this time around.

The nonpartisan White House Project will be doing its Go Run training in Columbus in 2008 and I expect to make that. Fingers crossed.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:57 pm July 17th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off 

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17

Remains of the Day, 7-16-07

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Many items I’d have preferred to blog about but not enough hours in today.

1. WCPN will spend the 9-10am Sound of Ideas hour trying to coax the horse that got put before the cart into speaking in something other than tongues about the medical mart/convention center/county sales tax increase. I’m on record as follows: medical mart: maybe an acceptable idea. Increase in sales tax: needs to go before the voters; absolutely not a dime for the general fund or anything other this specific project. Preference: find a better funding stream. You can listen live here or later here.

2. Get your Carnival of Ohio Politics submissions in by 8pm tomorrow evening to OhioPolCarnival AT gmail DOT com. It’s now been featured by the Plain Dealer and WCPN. More than 25 participants (even though we’re Lincoln Logs are now unlinked – sorry Matt, I’m still bumming). Step right up and join the fun. Lisa Renee of the virtually #1 most influential blog is the barker this week.

3. Fantastic ‘Roots News from the Medina County Democratic Action Committee on an event its members attended with Governor Strickland. Looks like a great outing. Thanks so much for sharing. I’m not typically a party org kind of party girl. But if all party parties are like that?…

4. It’s back to the blackboard with lots of chalk and several erasers for No Child Left Behind’s authors.

5. The IRS is trying to make it easier for the public to see the financial finaglings of nonprofits. Want to comment about the changes they’re expecting to make to 990s? Go here. Comments must be received by 9/14/07, a little less than two months from now.

6. The Cincinnati Enquirer published this article that they titled, “Paying to lobby the state: local governments hire help in getting money, decisions.”

Well, um, YEAH. Others write about it, too, but I’ve been writing about it particularly in regard to how, because of charters and vouchers, taxpayer money intended for educating Ohio’s kids ends up going to lobbyists and politicians so that…more money can go to those who run the charter schools and accept vouchers so that they can…give more money to the lobbyists and politicians so that they can get more money…to give to the lobbyists and politicians so that they can…
You get the picture.

7. This is absolutely insane. Why not just rename Ohio Thunderdome?

8. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner tells us how she’s doing.

9. All these recipes make me want to try to be kosher.

Nah. But I did eat at Udupi last night.

10. Again, Jewess with a roundup. Doing roundups myself, I have to tell you how much I appreciate finding them on topics that interest me but about which I don’t often delve deeply.

11. Just like Romeo and Juliet?

Lawmakers across the country are doling out tougher punishments for sex offenders – from satellite tracking to the death penalty – but a handful of states are starting to ease up on penalties in cases of youths arrested for sex.

Laws enacted this year in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana and Texas, and a bill waiting for the governor’s approval in Illinois, try to draw clearer distinctions between sexual predators and adolescents who pose less of a risk, such as those caught in so-called “Romeo and Juliet” relationships. Even when adolescents are only a few years apart, consensual sexual encounters can lead to prosecution.

The case in Georgia of former high school football star Genarlow Wilson, who is serving a mandatory 10-year sentence after receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, has attracted national attention, sparked bitter debate in the Legislature and will be decided later this year by the state Supreme Court. Even the author of the statute used against Wilson says the sentence is a miscarriage of justice and wasn’t the intent of the law.

Read the full article here.

‘Night mother.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:25 am July 17th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments 

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17

News Alert: Murdoch gets his WSJ for $5 billion

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Total, utter, UGH.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:15 am July 17th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off 

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17

Too little too late? Bush calls for Rice to lead meeting w/Israel, Palestinians, "neighbors in the region"

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Here’s the speech during which President Bush makes the suggestion and here’s the graph, about eight from the bottom:

The world can do more to build the conditions for peace. So I will call together an international meeting this fall of representatives from nations that support a two-state solution, reject violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and commit to all previous agreements between the parties. The key participants in this meeting will be the Israelis, the Palestinians, and their neighbors in the region. Secretary Rice will chair the meeting. She and her counterparts will review the progress that has been made toward building Palestinian institutions. They will look for innovative and effective ways to support further reform. And they will provide diplomatic support for the parties in their bilateral discussions and negotiations, so that we can move forward on a successful path to a Palestinian state.

From The Jerusalem Post:

The conference, to be hosted by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, would include the Israelis, Palestinians and “their neighbors in the region,” according to the president.

A senior State Department official, in a briefing following the speech, would not specify where the meeting would be held or which countries were expected to take part, but did say that “robust consultations” were going on.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said that Israel hoped to see the involvement of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Morocco.

But she played down the mandate of such a gathering, saying that Bush had not called it an international peace conference, but rather a regional “meeting” of participants who support the idea of a two-state solution.

The purpose of the meeting, she said, was not to come up with a conclusive peace agreement, but rather to bring together those backing a two-state solution to lend support to the sides.

Eh.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:12 am July 17th, 2007 in Politics | 3 Comments 

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