Earlier this week I reported that Cincinnati is losing one of its longtime companies, Chiquita, to Charlotte NC. Charlotte ended up offering Chiquita $22 million in incentives and Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, said that we couldn’t offer them any more than the $6 million already offered. Now we know why: Ohio has offered Sears incentives […]
Here’s the WaPo’s Ruth Marcus yesterday on the Emma Sullivan tweet to Sam Brownback: Emma Sullivan, you’re lucky you’re not my daughter. (Dangerous sentence, I know: My daughters might agree.) If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smartalecky, potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting […]
The fad that is the Tea Party is starting to show real signs of fading: Since the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party has not only lost support nationwide, but also in the congressional districts represented by members of the House Tea Party Caucus. And this year, the image of the Republican Party has declined […]
Bloomberg is out with another article about the financial collapse. In it they report that former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who was in charge during the collapse, gave insider information to hedge funders. The following alledgedly took place on July 21, 2008 At the Eton Park meeting, he sent a different message, according to a […]
Cincinnati’s iconic skyline has been called one of the most beautiful around. One building that helps make up that skyline is the Chiquita Center. Today Chiquita has announced that they are moving their operations from Cincinnati to Charlotte, North Carolina: Chiquita Brands International, Inc. will relocate its headquarters to Charlotte, N.C., the company announced Tuesday […]
With the big Herman Cain news today comes the right digging in and continuing the media blame game. Here’s William Jacobson, who has been painting the media as the bad guy all along: This will all be used to justify Politico’s original reporting, but nothing could be farther from the truth. The issue never was […]
It looks like we may finally be witnessing the death of the Herman Cain for President campaign. Yesterday news came out of a woman claiming she has had a 13 year affair with the Republican hopeful: An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential […]
Wow! What an interesting twist this story just took: Gov. Sam Brownback apologized Monday for his office’s reaction to a Kansas high school senior’s disparaging tweet about the Republican during a visit to the Statehouse. The governor’s staff complained about a post by Emma Sullivan, 18, and the student quickly landed in hot water with […]
No news yet as to why, but all the news outlets are confirming that Barney Frank will announce that he is not running for reelection in 2012. He is going to hold a news conference later on today to give more details. I must say that this has taken me by surprise. What do you […]
I blogged about Emma Sullivan on Saturday. She’s a high school senior in Kansas who made a “disparaging” comment about Sam Brownback on Twitter and got called to the principals office for it. The principal tried to force her to write a letter of apology to the Republican governor after his office complained about the […]