The 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team based in Columbus has been told to prepare for deployment to Iraq.....
>Even though I have a dog named Brutus, the following story shows that Buckeye fans carry their spirit through their families. A couple from central Ohio have named their newborn son, Tressel Hayes Huffines, after two prominent Ohio State coaches. See the Toledo Blade for the full story.
>News about the corruption scandal in the Taft administration's Bureau of Workers' Compensation has gotten to North Dakota. North Dakota officials wanted to know a little something about a former employee from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Insurance Journal:
...Separately, the Legislature's Democratic floor leaders, Rep. Merle Boucher, D-Rolette, and Sen. David O'Connell, D-Lansford, sent a letter to Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, asking for information about Sandy Blunt, the top administrator for North Dakota's Workforce Safety and Insurance agency.
Blunt worked for the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation before starting his North Dakota job in April 2004. A man he formerly supervised in Ohio, Terrence Gasper, pleaded guilty last year to a federal racketeering charge, and to state charges of money laundering and failing to report gifts.
Gasper was the agency's chief financial officer. He had been taking payoffs to award state investment contracts to people he favored, authorities said.
Blunt spoke about the Gasper case at a Workforce Safety and Insurance board of directors' meeting last September, vehemently denying any wrongdoing....
>The Columbus Monthly has a nice article about Mayor Coleman's green plan for Columbus.
>The National Priorities Project shows how much of our money from the 15th congressional has gone to support Bush's Iraq war through 2007 (link):
| Taxpayers in Congressional District 15 (Pryce) will pay $946.3 million for the cost of the Iraq War through 2007. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided: | |
 317,198 People with Health Care or | |
| 16,080 Elementary School Teachers or | |
| 146,118 Head Start Places for Children or | |
| 538,167 Children with Health Care or | |
| 8,826 Affordable Housing Units or | |
| 85 New Elementary Schools or | |
| 117,089 Scholarships for University Students or | |
| 14,486 Music and Arts Teachers or | |
| 22,700 Public Safety Officers or | |
| 1,059,812 Homes with Renewable Electricity or | |
| 19,522 Port Container Inspectors |