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Northbrook, OH: #1 in most affordable homes per Money Best Places to Live rankings
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Knock yourself out at this CNN Money website with all kinds of stats and rankings related to metrics on where people might want to live.
Northbrook is featured here.
Ohio has six cities in the overall top 100. Only California, with nine and New Jersey, with eight, had more.
See????
I do love Ohio.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:19 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Umm, yeah, well – I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. Capitol Steps meets Jib Jab meets…Borscht Belt? I gritted my teeth when I started it and I’m still gritting. Let me know what you think.
Like I told Lisa Renee a few days ago, I see myself more as a Tom Petty I Won’t Back Down kind of gal than a Rockette-type. Maybe just me.
Have a look:
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:35 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | 13 Comments
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Sometimes being a blogger with info can cause such shpilkas in my gunectigazoidt. I wished Josh good luck a couple of days ago when I first heard.
Now you can read it for yourself. Judge it for yourself. Check out all those PD blog comments for yourself.
Then write what you think.
Update: More on Josh’s decision here in the Chagrin Herald Sun. I would expect the Cleveland Jewish News to be out with something even more extensive tomorrow. Specifically of note, that wasn’t mentioned in the PD’s report:
Mandel, 29, said today (July 19) that he is no longer on active duty but “there is a need for intelligence specialists over in Iraq and that’s what I did when I served before. “
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Mandel was a newly elected Lyndhurst City Councilman when his Marine Reserve unit was activated in 2004. He attended his first city council meeting that January, then shipped out.
City council left his seat unfilled, corresponding with Mandel via e-mail during the nine months he was in Iraq.
He returned in October 2004 [after serving for nine months].
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:49 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Trio of new Ohio blogs
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I’m sure that there are more, but here are the ones I’ve noted most recently:
1. Terra from The Chief Source has started terra, not terror. So clever. Good luck.
2. Bloggy goodness about Medical Mart.
3. Mark Jablonski, whose name I recognize from the comment section on a variety of blogs, writes here at Thus Far Shalt Thou Go, and No Farther.
Welcome all.
The sidebar of Carnival of Ohio Politics participants provides some less familiar locales in the Ohio blogosphere as well. I’d encourage readers to give them a try.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:29 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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So says Louis Jacobson, editor of CongressNow, former deputy editor of Roll Call and 11 year veteran of National Journal, in this Stateline column.
Check out the interactive map. After an analysis of that map, Jacobson concludes:
That leaves Ohio and its 20 electoral votes as the kingmaker – again. In the last election, a gritty contest that both sides always expected to be pivotal, the Buckeye State sided with Bush by just 119,000 votes, or 2 percent of votes cast.
Next year, Ohio political experts agree the Democrats will start from a much better position than they had in 2004. In the 2006 midterms, the state shifted markedly in the Democrats’ direction with the election of Ted Strickland (D) as governor. Strickland’s win, plus victories in several other statewide races, stemmed largely from an onslaught of public disaffection with the scandal-plagued administration of Republican Gov. Robert Taft and was a major breakthrough for the state’s once-dormant Democratic Party.
If a single reason justifies Democratic optimism right now, it is that public disapproval of Bush and the unpopularity of the Iraq War are pushing the national winds in the party’s favor. That makes it easier to imagine on-the-bubble red states shifting to blue than to imagine tenuous blue states shifting to red. Either way, don’t bet the farm. There’s lots of Campaign 2008 left to play out.
Rocket science? Not rocket science?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:05 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Plain D: Strickland, judicial panel face political conundrum w/Dann’s help
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I don’t really understand these kinds of editorials. What impact is desired? Who is actually being addressed?
Is it like a letter from the media to the governor saying, we just want you to know our opinion, which is that if you pick this choice, be prepared to have an ironclad case for how she exceeds the others?
And if that’s the case, okay, so then what?
I don’t know.
Here’s the PD’s story on a judicial opening and Marc Dann’s recommendation. And, fyi, the PD seems to be the only paper that I could find that’s done a story on this matter.
I agree in general with the editorial’s sentiments: the panel needs to make a best choice recommendation and the governor should follow that and Marc Dann will have to live.
But still, the more basic question: why do editors write and publish an editorial that merely seems to say, we’re watching and if you choose this one particular choice, beware, with me inferring that the PD will then feel justified in crucifying the decision since the editorial already outlines why the editors believe that there are in fact choices better than Dann’s recommendation.
Thoughts?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:03 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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I met a batch of new people this evening, and even chatted with them. How often do you do that? Not to be outdone, I really enjoyed catching up with many others too. Blogger meetups – try one sometime.
1. Two from MediaShift:
-Lessons learned from Backfence bust. One of the people I met this evening was Eric Olsen (go Leo bloggers). I don’t know if he’s really Cleveland’s Jimmy Wales, but he is a more or less internationally known blog promoter most commonly associated with Blogcritics. I know of Blogcritics because…I’m not really sure why. But I remember checking it out when I first starting blogging, then some writer friends of mine started writing for Blogcritics and I thought about it, but I don’t really do reviews of stuff. However, I loved reading about examples of successful blogs (read: profitable blogs) and seeing Eric’s name and Blogcritics, even though I had nothing to do with either of them but rather simply because they’re connected, by Eric, to Cleveland.
Anyway – Eric mentioned that Cool Cleveland is the successful potential that Backfence ended up not to be. I hope he’s right, and I’m guessing that he may very well be.
-How would you build a newsroom from scratch?
This question has got to be something asked of traditional journalists all the time. Any thoughts?
2. There’s more to this, right? Bizarre.
3. Eric Mansfield has some viable thoughts for how to get more accomplished in Iraq.
4. Two on mental health:
-A Mother in Israel addresses the issue in terms of how it’s hidden in some communities. I know that from when I worked in Israel in ’84-85. Even then, we learned about the secrecy with which it was handled. In Cleveland, I’ve learned that in certain Jewish communities, again, there is a reticence that harms victims and observers.
How do other religions manage these issues?
-Then there was this op-ed by Betty Ford and Roslyn Carter urging us to urge legislators to pass the Wellstone Act. Please read it and consider their request.
5. Making a video game out of a newsroom? Someone has said, why not.
6. Air America’s blog, Spark.
7. Lack of diversity on the Sunday talk shows – here and here and tokenism spoken like a, an and the by Robert Novak.
Go meet some new people and blog about them.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:45 am July 19th, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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