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TOLEDO, OH — The Toledo Young Republican Club has requested an advisory opinion from the Ohio Elections Commission following the passage of a number of property tax levies in Lucas County on November 4, 2008.
The request is regarding the phrase “not a new tax,” which often appears in the marketing material for levies that are seeking a replacement. The Club has determined that this language is misleading because the levy will actually raise the average resident’s property taxes due to the re-evaluating of it to current levels.

Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a huge throng of cheering supporters.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa and more.

Welcome to the smoke-free bars of the USA-give it about 5 years. Oh, well.......can't have this....someone, somewhere, might be about to have fun.
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Bars to be banned from giving women free drinks in latest crackdown on drinking | October 13, 2008 | DANIEL MARTIN AND GRANT JUNKIE
Pubs could be banned from promotions such as offering free drinks to women as part of a raft of proposals to tackle drinking.

I was sent this from the Catholic association:
The following article is written by TCA National Advisory Board member, Robert George.
Obama's Abortion Extremism
by Robert George
Oct 14, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama's views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket.

Toledo City Council has for years routinely rubber-stamped purely ceremonial resolutions offering support for tax levies appearing for a vote on Election Day, but last night the practice started a debate among the councilmen.
A majority of council last night voted to support five levies on the Nov. 4 ballot: two for Toledo Public Schools, COSI's 0.17-mill, five-year levy to reopen the downtown science museum, the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board's 10-year, 1-mill replacement levy, and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority's 0.4-mill, five-year renewal levy request.

TOLEDO (WTOL) - The city of Toledo's general fund budget continues to operate with a multi-million dollar deficit. City leaders are trying to figure out what to do before the end of the year.
City of Toledo administrators got quite an earful from council members regarding the budget.
"You have to have police. You have to have fire, trash pick up. But how do you know how to budget for them when you don't know how much money you have," asked Council Member Betty Schultz.

A group of neighbors in Toledo's Vistula Historic District are seeking to vote their precinct "dry" - a move aimed at two carryouts they say are magnets for crime and problems.
"We're tired of this," said Lonnie Homan, leader of the area Block Watch, gesturing to one of the carryouts in question.
Mr. Homan lives on North Superior Street, just around the corner from The Beer Dock, 932 North Huron St. He said he believes The Beer Dock is responsible for loud noise, people loitering outside the store, and general disorderliness.

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

In addition to ordering three layoffs and shuffling seven employees into new positions yesterday, the Finkbeiner administration said it wants to use unspent 2008 capital improvement money to help balance the potential $7 million sinkhole in Toledo's general operating budget.
Mr. Reinbolt said he expects more layoffs in addition to the three he ordered yesterday. The people who lost their jobs were in the youth commission, information technology, and utilities.
He said the mayor wants to avoid cuts to the police and fire forces that could drive up overtime costs.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 29 -- Issue 6 Ohio's Resort Casino , which was certified by
the Secretary of State by the Secretar. Issue 6 and will be on the ballot on
November 4th for Ohio voters statewide despite a last minute attempt to stop
Issue 6 by Penn National/Argosy Casino to keep Ohioans from voting on the
Issue was rejected by the Secretary of State.
"Penn National/ Argosy Casino has begun the mostly costly assault on an Issue
in the history of Ohio with estimates of upwards of $40 million."Their

Thieves scoured Kalinda Sanders' West Toledo house earlier this month, looking for anything that could be scrapped for money.
They ripped out her bathroom sink and tore a hole in the wall next to her bathtub, leaving remnants of installation scattered all over the floor.
The metal ceiling fans in the two-story home in the 1900 block of Berkshire Place, near Upton Avenue, were pulled from the ceilings.
Ms. Sanders said it looked as if a tornado had hit.

A fundamentalist Christian group that claims to help young people overcome drug and alcohol addiction through Bible study and prayer has given up a federal grant after Americans United for Separation of Church and State protested the funding.