Friday, February 05, 2010

Friday's Notes

Marketwatch:

The unemployment rate fell in January to 9.7% from 10% in December, the Labor Department said Friday....

>>> According to CantonRep.com, Republicans in Stark County, Ohio, are very excited about their prospects for winning in the general election.

What if Kasich were elected governor? How would Stark County residents feel if Kasich cut out the state income tax? Initially, they might be happy, but then the cold reality of the cuts would hit them hard.

Kasichcuts.com
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Stark County, Ohio 44703:
$6,857,312 would be cut from local police and fire departments, parks, public health, other local services

$5,623,485 cut from local libraries


**** Surprise! Surprise! Another charter school goes bust and taxpayers lose millions of dollars!
Dispatch:

...No records show how many kids actually attended the Harte School for girls or Crossroads Preparatory Academy for boys. Staff members were paid willy-nilly, and payroll records didn't exist. Bank loans, federal and state grants, and per-pupil funding were spent on who knows what. The audits covered fiscal years 2005, 2006 and 2007.

In all, more than $4 million is owed to the federal and state governments, teachers and vendors, the audits say....

...The auditors' findings for $4 million are in addition to the $3.3 million a Franklin County court said the defunct schools owed in 2008....

Despite many Ohio charter school disasters like this, Republican candidates, like Husted and Kasich still would like to have even more charter schools in the state.