The Ozone Net:
The Ohio State Department of Athletics has announced that the 2010 season opener has been rescheduled for a Thursday night.
Head Coach Jim Tressel had this to say about the schedule: "The Thursday night before Labor Day is a great night to play. To be one of the first games that kicks off the 2010 season will be exciting! The Buckeyes and the Thundering Herd will both be veteran teams, and it will be a fun night in the Horseshoe. We cannot wait to tee it up!"
Dispatch:
...Ohio's public-school system is ranked fifth best in the nation...
...Ohio earned its highest rating ever on the well- regarded and closely watched report cards issued each year since 1997 by Education Week newspaper....
Can you imagine what ranking Ohio's public schools would have received if the Ohio Legislature would have fixed the school funding controversy? Teachers, school board members, students, and school administrators should be proud of this ranking because they've done so much with very little funding from the state legislature. However, the Republicans want to take even more from their funding. Despite this high ranking for Ohio's public schools, Republican Jon Husted still would like to take more money from public schools to help create more charter schools for his one of his best contributors, David Brennan of White Hat Management.
* Does this spell disaster for the Ohio GOP? It appears that the Ohio State Auditor Mary Taylor will be Republican John Kasich's running mate for the office of Ohio Governor. Seriously. As an Ohio.com article indicates, this move is very risky for the Republicans:
Dropping any plans to run for re-election as state auditor to join gubernatorial candidate John Kasich as his lieutenant governor is not a step up, or even a lateral move, for Mary Taylor.
Taylor is the incumbent auditor and the lone nonjudicial Republican candidate to win statewide in 2006....
The news article also suggests that Taylor was offered the Lt. Governor candidacy with Kasich because she had not raised enough campaign funds, and the Ohio GOP was not willing to help her raise campaign money.
*** Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has issued an important directive for all members of county boards of elections.
Anyone with a criminal conviction for ethics or elections laws will not be allowed to lead a county board of elections under new requirements set by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
Brunner issued a directive this week setting minimum qualifications for board directors and deputy directors. She also is requiring that applicants undergo a criminal background check and disclose any convictions, regardless of whether they have been expunged, sealed or pardoned.
The move was made to help maintain public confidence in the election system and came in response to the chairman of the Summit County Board of Elections being convicted last year on ethics charges, Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said....
This sounds like a great idea. I wonder why such requirements were not deemed necessary before this? I'd like to see which politicians complain about this.