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“Register for Change” event with Cuba Gooding Jr.

Laborers Local 500
2270 Ashland Avenue
Toledo, OH

Franklin Park Land Use Plan

Participate in the Toledo 20/20 Land Use Plan for the Franklin Park Neighborhood. Neighborhood input is needed to help in updating the Land Use Plan for the City of Toledo. The Franklin Park Neighborhood is bounded by the Michigan state line, Secor Road, Central Avenue, and Sylvania Township.

Wednesday October 15, 2008

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

Cordray says he knows nothing about it and also says the 37% increase of business to Wachovia is not related to donation. Donation could be illegal because it was funneled through another person possibly done to skirt campaign finance limits. Kudos for the Dayton Daily News for asking questions and follow-up.
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Sam Phillips remembers the flood of 1973, when a few inches of rocks protected his Point Place house from the crashing waves of Lake Erie.

The water threatened, but it never entered his Lakeside Avenue house. Others in Point Place, though, weren't as lucky.

Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in Afghanistan was quoted as saying Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Brig. Mark Carleton-Smith as saying that "we're not going to win this war."

For those of you following the Nate Miles saga, it may not be over just yet.
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According to his legal guardian Sean Patterson, Miles will appeal a UConn administrative board's decision Thursday to expel him.

Miles, who returned home Thursday to Toledo, Ohio, has five business days from the date of the ruling to file the appeal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081004/people_nm/us_simpson;_ylt=Ag0MBSFihv...

TOO.....BAD!!!!! Now he won't be able to search golf courses for the real killers any more. I'll bet he could have found them eventually.

Cameron Interviews Post-Debate Palin

Kudos to Wells Fargo for buying Wachovia with no government help. Citigroup, which was hoping to stick it to the taxpayers, ends up losing the deal and looking stupid. Of course, if you work with the government things will go slow and probably be bad. Wells Fargo knows this which is why they decided to purchase Wachovia with their own money.

An interesting note:

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.

This story out today - link to text of letter from Gov. Schwarzenegger

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0334646220081003

“We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms at the moment.” — Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 11, 2008.

William H. Donaldson, who announced his resignation from the S.E.C. in June 2005, created a risk management office to watch for future problems.

WASHINGTON - Wind power developers, disaster victims, college students, teachers and millions of taxpayers and businesses stand to see substantial benefits from the tax relief package that lawmakers added to the huge financial rescue plan.

So will more narrowly focused groups, including motor sports racetrack owners, film producers and bicycle commuters.

Keith Wilkowski, attorney for Block Communications, is pleased
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Keith Wilkowski, attorney for Block, said he is pleased with the ruling to deny the injunction, but declined to comment further, saying he had not had time to go over the full ruling.

Read the rest at:

http://www.limaohio.com/news/block_28968___article.html/wohl_injunction....

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.

The American Physical Society Reaffirms its Policy on Climate Change and warns that the opinion cited by the author (John Zyrkowski) of the book "Its the sun, not your SUV" was a minority opinion by some forum members who do not represent the overwhelming number of Physical Society members.

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CINCINNATI - Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati.

The City Council on Wednesday became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace tar and shingles with vegetation.

Owners of the Southwyck Shopping Center in South Toledo and Finkbeiner administration officials are proceeding with plans to raze the vacant mall, but Perrysburg developer Larry Dillin will no longer be the go-between for the parties, after many months in that role.

In an attempt to bolster the controversial new entertainment venue created with taxpayer money at the city-owned Erie Street Market near downtown Toledo, the Finkbeiner administration unsuccessfully sought to attract promoters to book shows at the building.

For those of you keeping up with the latest saga:

ERNON -- UConn freshman forward Nate Miles had the case against him for violating a restraining order continued to Nov. 25, and he was ordered to undergo counseling until then.

Lamar Advertising Co. will move its regional sales and marketing office back to downtown Toledo after eight years on Matzinger Road, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced yesterday.

The company plans to move 21 employees to 116 South Erie St. and it will spend slightly more than $2 million to purchase and renovate the vacant building.

  She called on the Bush administration to get the Securities and Exchange Commission to change accounting rules to loosen up the credit crunch.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/WireStory?id=5917510&page=2

At a press conference today, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner spoke about the submission of an incentive package to City Council, aimed to keep HCR ManorCare in Toledo. For the last year-and-a-half, the City of Toledo's Department of Development and the Ohio Department of Development, have been working with Lt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of National City Corp (NCC.N) dropped more than half on Monday as investors wondered which regional bank might need a merger partner as the sector suffered what analysts called a deepening crisis of confidence.

The big Ohio bank slid $2, or 52 percent, at $1.70 on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock fell more than 25 percent on Friday.
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