* Columbus has gotten some money to save some police jobs, according to the Dispatch.
* The Ohio Recovery website is garnering a lot of attention.
* I'm not sure why some members of the House of Representatives would vote against a bill to improve food safety! According to the website for the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, not enough members voted for the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 to meet the 2/3 vote needed. Of course, Boehner and his trained right wing followers (Foxx, Flake, Cantor, McHenry, Austria, Blunt, Blackburn, Hensarling, Hoekstra, etc.) all voted no. (Roll Call Vote 657)
* The divorce of Tom "Coingate" Noe and Bernadette Noe is making news, according to the
Toledo Blade :
A Florida judge this week ended the 15-year marriage of Tom and Bernadette Noe, the once formidable power couple who hobnobbed with President George W. Bush and Gov. Bob Taft before scandal drove the Noes from Toledo and the state....
...Documents filed in their “petition for simplified dissolution” show the couple together owe almost $3 million — not including the $13.7 million in restitution that Tom Noe owes the state of Ohio and $2.9 million he owes Lucas County for court costs.
While Ms. Noe continues to work as a lawyer in the Florida Keys, residing in what was once their shared $5 million oceanfront home, Tom Noe, 55, is rounding out the first of his 18 years at the Hocking Correctional Facility in southern Ohio....
As noted in the Toledo Blade, both Tom Noe and Bernadette Noe ".....are past chairmen of the Lucas County Republican Party...." HA! How does she get to live in a "....$5 million oceanfront home...."?