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Forced out
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, left, announces his resignation Wednesday in Columbus. At right is Gov. Ted Strickland.
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May 15, 2008
Attorney General Marc Dann resigned Wednesday, just 12 days after three of his top aides lost their jobs in a sexual harassment scandal. Dann was hoping for a second chance to salvage his administration, but on Tuesday his fellow Democrats filed articles of impeachment against him, and on Wednesday the Ohio inspector general raided his office. ‘‘It is now clear that the last step I must take to fix these problems is to resign as attorney general effective immediately,’’ Dann said in a statement that lasted less than three minutes.
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Group reviewing death in Liberty
May 15, 2008
LIBERTY — The Kent State University Trumbull Campus Public Safety Training and Research Center was hired to review circumstances surrounding the April 28 death of 87-year-old woman who remained locked out of her home while police drove by.
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Strickland to name Dann replacement
May 15, 2008
Marc Dann’s decision to step down from his scandal-ridden administration late Wednesday afternoon has opened the door for replacements to begin lining up to fill the rest of his term that would expire in 2010.
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State begins probe of Dann’s office
May 15, 2008
Ohio’s inspector general began his independent investigation of the Attorney General’s Office Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the governor signed a bill authorizing the probe.
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Making mozzarella
Mon, May 12, 2008 @ 11:52AM
Whenever I have plans to spend some time with my granddaughter, I always try to find things we can do together, and much of the time, these things involve cooking. Sometimes our cooking is the simple act of making holiday cookies, which is what we did when she visited last Christmas. Last summer, we made breakfast together nearly every day consisting of scrambled eggs and toast because it was the first time she was really old enough to use the stove safely. This year I have plans for the two of us to make cheese. When I was growing up, we bought our cheese, usually as individually wrapped yellow squares, from the grocery store every week. When my own children were young, I would often buy big, soft yellow blocks of processed cheese to make their favorite sandwiches, but more often, because it melted so well over vegetables and was one way to get them to eat things like broccoli and cauliflower.
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A loss for words
Wed, May 14, 2008 @ 2:44PM
Friday, I wrote that Judge R. Scott Krichbaum is never at a loss for words. Wednesday, I saw the opposite just before he sentenced a man for a North Side murder in November. As Krichbaum was reading off the circumstances of the death of James Dow, one of his sisters began crying out and had to leave the courtroom. The outburst seemed to stun the judge, who took a moment before simply sentencing Michael Lee to 30 years in prison for Dow's death. Lee was restrained in a special chair after he threw a tantrum at his plea hearing in March and took out a hunk of wood in the bar in front of Krichbaum's bench that looked like a beaver gnawed it, He has said it before from the bench, and I'm sure Wednesday was one of those cases where the grief and gruesome details of a crime just get to be too much, and the judge just could not say anything.
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American Idol Tour Presale Password
Wed, May 14, 2008 @ 4:06PM
Planning on going to see this year's American Idol Live Tour? The top 10 finalists from this year's FOX reality series will perform at 7 p.m. July 29 at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh and at 7 p.m. Sept. 4 at Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday to the general public at all Ticketmaster outlets and by calling 330-747-1212. A presale starts today through tour sponsor Pop Tarts. However, there's another presale from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday online at www.ticketmaster.com. Folks can purchase tickets for the Cleveland show using the password 2008idols. I'm guessing that password will work for Pittsburgh as well. The password isn't that hard to get. Anyone who signed up with tour promoter AEG for email updates probably got it today. But feel free to use it to beat the box office.
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Going outside
Mon, May 12, 2008 @ 1:51PM
After two months of grueling weightlifting sessions, the Cleveland Browns can finally go outside and do what they enjoy most -- practicing football. Actually, playing actual games is what players enjoy the most. Practicing can be a nuisance and the reason they think their high salaries are deserved. But after the boredom of weight training, getting out on the plush grass at the team's Berea facility and beginning OTAs (offseason training activities) has to be a relief. It's a good time of the year for coaches that have been sitting in offices wondering what the team will look like next season. Now they get a chance to see if their thoughts are accurate. Browns coach Romeo Crennel will be monitoring many issues during the 12 OTA practices, which lead up to a three-day minicamp in the second week of June. For starters, Crennel has to be anxious to see if quarterback Derek Anderson has made strides.
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Payday Loan Shark
Sun, May 11, 2008 @ 1:25AM
May 11, 2008 Muccio cartoon
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Incubator update
Tue, April 29, 2008 @ 12:14PM
Jim Cossler, director and Chief Evangelist for the Youngstown Business Incubator, has this update: Just how far the Youngstown Business Incubator has come as a center of excellence for software development really struck home for me late last week during a three-way video conference. Joining with us in Youngstown, Ohio were YBI portfolio companies Zethus Software, M-7 Technologies and our research partner Youngstown State University. Also joining us from Columbus, Ohio and Gaithersburgh, Maryland respectively were scientists from the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Our goal? To define each partner's responsibility for developing the next generation of laser-based 3D imaging software for advanced manufacturing under our contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Home-court advantage
Mon, May 12, 2008 @ 4:22AM
It's too bad the Boston Celtics have the home-court advantage in this series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Too bad for the Cavs, that is. Boston looks unbeatable at home. On the road, the Celtics can't do anything right. LeBron James finally got some help Saturday night, and even though he still didn't shoot well, the Cavaliers were much more aggressive and got the complementary contributions that were lacking in the first two games. If the Cavs can keep it going tonight, they can make this series much more interesting, much like the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs did by winning their Game 4s against the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Hornets, respectively, on Sunday night.
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A masterful turnaround through marketing
Fri, May 9, 2008 @ 1:47PM
Someone in marketing with the Papa John's Pizza company deserves a raise after the stunning turn of events that culminated Thursday. Papa John's got into an uncomfortable situation recently when someone at a franchise in Washington D.C. decided it would be cute to call Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James a crybaby, and made a T-shirt with that written on it. The problem was, they also included the Papa John's logo. To say the least, that turned out to be a public relations nightmare. This is where the clever turnaround occurred. Someone was smart enough to offer an apology in Northeast Ohio and offered 23-cent pizzas, the 23 being James' jersey number. The turnout was tremendous. The result was the pizza company ended up with front-page coverage of the events. The Tribune covered it, but we put it on the business page.
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