Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Plain Dealer mum on progress of Clinic’s applicant nicotine testing

Filed Under Business, Cleveland+, Marketing, Media, Ohio | 2 Comments

If there were politics in the least involved in this case, believe me, I would love to post it on Wide Open.  But I really can’t stretch it – there just isn’t anything related remotely – yet (if there are any lawsuits filed, particularly in state court…)

So – Plain Dealer – what’s the story morning glory on the Cleveland Clinic’s new nicotine-testing program for applicants? It started September 1. I cannot find a single article about how it’s going.

But what I have found so far are articles that suggest the Clinic’s move has zero to do with the work environment and everything to do with decreasing the provision of health care for employees.

From the Chicago Tribune:

“Employers are trying to thin out their health-care costs, by any means necessary,” said Jeremy Gruber, legal director for the National Workrights Institute of Princeton, N.J. “We’re only seeing the beginning of this. Employers started with smokers. Now they’re moving on to the general population.”

From an article titled, “Corporations shedding health care obligations”:

These corporate strategies aim to limit the cost of providing employee health care by eliminating workers with health risks — the workers who would most likely benefit from health care coverage.

This creates a vicious cycle: got a health risk, can’t get a job because you don’t pass risk screening, can’t get health insurance because you don’t have a job, don’t have insurance that enables you to get medical care to mitigate your risk.

[Think SCHIP while you're at it - but I'll just link to Jeff's post here at Wide Open and, to be fair to our co-blogger, Dave, here's his lastest on the same topic.]

What’s the Clinic have to say about the program, especially to people who view their website in search of a job?

Nothing.  Not a word, not a button, not a link.  Not that I could find.  You?

So why is this absence of stories important to note, besides the fact that it would be a nice follow up on the July announcement that starting September 1, prospective employees will be tested for nicotine? Why am I not just indicting everyone for omitting coverage or follow-up on this topic?

Because of PD publisher Terry Egger being on the Clinic board.  That’s why.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:04 pm October 5th, 2007 in Business, Cleveland+, Marketing, Media, Ohio | 2 Comments 

Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Jenna Bush launches book tour for Ana’s Story

Filed Under Announcements, Culture, Women, Writing | Comments Off

Lots of coverage.  Good luck to her.

The book is Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:40 pm October 5th, 2007 in Announcements, Culture, Women, Writing | Comments Off 

Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Fewer women seek J.D. concerning

Filed Under Education, Media, Politics, Women | Comments Off

I don’t like this one

No, not at all.

In this report

The numbers fall.

Just feels like a Dr. Seuss reaction.  I’ll have to spend more time on this later tonight or over the weekend.  But I find it alarming.  It’s like finding beached whales – you don’t know why, but you know it can’t be good.

Here, in particular, what upsets and disturbs me:

Although observers say a variety of factors contributed to the dip, the prevailing message is that fewer women want a lawyer’s life.

And why might that be?  I have several ideas I’ll write about later.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:34 pm October 5th, 2007 in Education, Media, Politics, Women | Comments Off 

Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Cleveland Real Estate News blog

Filed Under Blogging, Ohio, Women, Writing | 4 Comments

I really like Carole’s blog and I hope you’ll give it a read too if you don’t already.  She’s writing about stuff that, for the most part, either isn’t being covered by anyone else anywhere or few people are covering to the extent the topics deserve to be covered.

Welcome Carole’s new home on WordPress, Cleveland Real Estate News.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:26 pm October 5th, 2007 in Blogging, Ohio, Women, Writing | 4 Comments 

Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Judge4Yourself ratings posted: Cleveland, Parma, Rocky River

Filed Under Elections, Ohio, Resources, Tools | Comments Off

Hands down, Judge4Yourself.com is the best way to get information you can trust – or at least use to make your own decisions – about judicial candidates in Cuyahoga County.

The site just went live and you can see and print out the matrix of rankings, ratings and endorsements from here.

Many thanks to all the folks who make the information available and present it in such a logical, helpful way.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:53 am October 5th, 2007 in Elections, Ohio, Resources, Tools | Comments Off 

Print This Post Print This Post

Oct

5

Politician robot-look all the rage

Filed Under Flip | 9 Comments

It’s Friday. It’s been a good but incredibly stressful week. And I just cannot hold back on my mind’s free association when I saw that picture of Matthew Barrett.


All I could think about was…the EYES.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:31 am October 5th, 2007 in Flip | 9 Comments 

"));