Roland Hansen Commentary Blog

It's Thanksgiving time, and I have to say I have some very thankful thoughts regarding the former United States Vice President nominee of the Republican Party Sarah Palin.

"E. Gordon Gee of Ohio State was the highest-paid public university president, earning $1,346,000, including a recently announced $310,000 bonus."That sentence appears in the last paragraph of an article of Delaware Online.

Remember Ray Kest, the now-former Lucas County Treasurer who was forced to resign in disgrace in order to avoid prosecution and possible jail time?Remember Robert "Bob" McCloskey, the now-former Toledo City Council member who was convicted of bribery, received a light jail sentence, and then received an early release?

Ya gotta read this:Hooda Thunkit's Therapy Blog: Re: Toledo's proposed version of “Musical Chairs” Garbage Collection...

Politics? Politics in Ohio? It's a Carnival out there.Call a COP!!!The 140th COP is now out. Don't walk. Run and click to read COP: Carnival of Ohio Politics #140

Yes, the header says it all. Toledo City Council should stick to city business, meaning the legitimate affairs of the city. Toledo City Council is elected to represent the citizens of the City of Toledo in the operations of city government.

Lindsay Webb, Toledo City Council member from the sixth district, has an electronic newsletter available.The electronic newsletter is an "opted in" service delivered to your e-mail account. If you wish to opt in, you may do so by following this link.I wish to express my appreciation for having received an e-mail invitation from Lindsay Webb to sign up for the electronic newsletter

Penta Board to Possibly Make Changes is a portion of the title of the June 10, 2008 entry of Lucas County Educational Services Center Updates by Angela Zimmann. Through the title of that blog entry and its contents, readers were informed by Angela Zimmann that there might be action taken at June 11 meeting of the Penta Career Center Board of Education to make changes in the composition and size of the Penta Board. Dr.

I remind you all that sometime back, I wrote Lucas County Educational Service Center: Angela Zimmann, Governing Board Member. Well, it seems as though Dr. Angela Zimmann has made the national and even international news and her picture is all over the map and web. And, she is not alone. It seems the media is carrying on quite a bit about Angela Zimmann and Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States of America.

I have never made a secret that I don't much care for persons who write on the internet in an anonymous fashion. As time has passed, I have modified that perspective, however, as it relates to anonymous posters who carry on an intelligent dialogue and who generally write comments that are factually based and/or base their opinions on factual information as they perceive it. Several of these anonymous persons have earned and gained my respect and even my admiration as they have proven their credibility.