Ohio Senate

Ohio Encourages Casino Gambling To Fight Recession

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Hard times and $650 million of potential tax revenue caused Ohio voters to turn their home into the 13th casino state on Tuesday. Regulators are now moving full speed to get casinos up and running -- and people gambling. Yet tax revenue from new casinos might not start flowing until 2012. By then the economic downturn could be over. So what was the point of removing a casino ban if it won't...

Ohio Senate: Menendez Practically Endorses Fisher

S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

In an interview today on MSNBC, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) “all but endorsed Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in Ohio’s Senate Democratic primary,” First Read reports. When Chuck asked Menendez about key Senate pick-up opportunities for Democrats next year, the chairman singled...

• DSCC chair all but endorses Fisher - First Read

Hearing on creating a statue for Jesse Owens…

Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

This in via e-mail from the Ohio Senate Majority Caucus: Statuary Committee to Hold Field Hearing at The Ohio State University on Friday as it Considers Memorializing Track Great Jesse Owens in Statuary Hall of the US Capitol Columbus— National Statuary Collection Study Committee Chairman, State Senator Mark Wagoner (R-Ottawa Hills) recently announced that the sixth [...]...

DSCC chair all but endorses Fisher

First Read (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

From NBC's Mark MurrayIn an interview on MSNBC with my colleague Chuck Todd, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Menendez all but endorsed Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in Ohio's Senate Democratic primary. When Chuck asked Menendez about key Senate pick-up opportunities for Democrats next year, the chairman singled out...

The GOP has created a monster that it can't control. With the tear ducts of Beck, the intelligence of Palin, and the body mass of Rush Limbaugh.

The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

... It also has leaders with louder microphones than those of House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Facebook page, Rush Limbaugh and his radio show and Glenn Beck with his popular 5 p.m. slot on Fox News. Ohhhh, Tht's right! The language of the teabaggers is "crazy" and we all...