A couple of weeks ago I posted a plan floated by Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann, the lone Republican, to fix the county’s budget problems by redirecting levy money for indigent care to pay for the two sports stadiums in Cincinnati. Well at a hearing yesterday, this plan drew a lot of criticism: University Hospital […]
Articles like this always make me laugh: State government is owed more than $33 million in unpaid fines and interest from candidates and political committees cited by the Ohio Elections Commission. At least four local campaign committees are on Attorney General Richard Cordray’s list of scofflaws being pursued – so far without success – by […]
The following video is from KOMO News in Seattle. So what started all this? Well the officer was citing them for jaywalking. Yup – the extremely horrible crime of crossing a street where you shouldn’t. It looks like the officers superiors have a “number of concerns” over what happened also: Seattle police officials said Tuesday […]
All the talk in the Cincinnati area today is of the fire that destroyed the huge Jesus statue along I-75 last night. Today video finally surfaced of the fire: I’ve also decided that if this statue is back in 3 days that I will become a believer. ADDING… This fire happened on the same day […]
About 10 miles from my house there is a big landmark that has been seen in such movies as Religulous and Alexandra Pelosi’s Friends of God. Well after massive storms moved through the area tonight, that status is no more: The famous King of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe has been […]
From the Denver Post: Clear Creek sheriff’s deputies on Thursday arrested a rafting guide for swimming to a stranded young rafter who had tumbled from his boat on Clear Creek. Ryan Daniel Snodgrass, a 28-year-old guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures rafting company, was charged with “obstructing government operations,” said Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger. “He […]
That’s the view of the lone Republican Commissioner in Hamilton County, Ohio: Hamilton County taxpayers will see an increase in property taxes, but pay less for indigent health care at the county’s largest trauma hospital under a plan by Commissioner Greg Hartmann to help pay for the county’s sports stadiums. In the plan, Hartmann calls […]
The AP has called the PA. Democratic Primary for Joe Sestak, ending Arlen Specter’s 30 year run in the Senate. UPDATE 1: Fox News and The Washington Post are also calling it for Sestak.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer: The lawyer for a man accused of threatening a U.S. Census worker with a BB gun said his client “didn’t want to be bothered.” Those comments came after an arraignment for Hakeem Bilal, a disabled Vietnam veteran whom Springfield Township police arrested on charges of aggravated menacing and drug possession after […]
Kind of shocking – a Republican in an affair scandal that actually resigns? He certainly isn’t a typical Republican like David Vitter, John Ensign or Mark Sanford: Indiana congressman Mark Souder (R) will resign his seat after an affair with a staffer came to light, he said in a statement this morning. “It is with […]