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Democrats bash leaders of Bush event in Ohio

jhallett@dispatch.com — 26 Mar 2008 08:09:00 -0400

President Bush will headline a Dayton area fundraiser Thursday whose co-chairmen include a man convicted of three misdemeanor money-laundering charges and another who owns a leading outsourcing company.

State seeking payback

mniquette@dispatch.com — 26 Mar 2008 08:08:07 -0400

Shortly after taking office last year, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner insisted that more than $80,000 in parting payments her predecessor made to top staffers were improper and should be repaid.

Auditor zaps Blackwell for $80,000 in improper bonuses

drowland@dispatch.com — 25 Mar 2008 12:05:48 -0400

State Auditor Mary Taylor this morning zapped fellow Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell for more than $80,000 in illegal bonuses to employees departing the secretary of state's office as Blackwell closed his tenure there in 2006.

Dann calls GOP's records request a costly waste

jnash@dispatch.com — 22 Mar 2008 06:10:59 -0400

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann lashed out yesterday at the Ohio Republican Party for submitting a wide-ranging request for documents that Dann said has gummed up the operations of his office.

Ohioans urged to file a 1040 to get tax rebate

ajohnson@dispatch.com — 22 Mar 2008 06:10:34 -0400

Gov. Ted Strickland doesn't want Ohioans to leave $200 million in federal stimulus payments on the table.

Americans off balance as economy slowly erodes

NEW YORK: For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture — a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.

GOP Facing Losses in Congress Elections

By CHARLES BABINGTON — 20 Mar 2008 18:32:12 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The news just keeps getting worse for Republicans in this year's campaigns for Congress....

Poll: Bush's approval hits new low

19 Mar 2008 16:10:08 EDT

Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

Poll: 7 in 10 think Iraq war hurting economy

19 Mar 2008 12:43:39 EDT

More than 7 out of 10 Americans think government spending on the war in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States, according to results of a recent poll.

McCain, Dems differ on Iraq war's outlook

19 Mar 2008 16:25:12 EDT

The Democratic presidential candidates offered a sharply different take on the Iraq War from that of GOP Sen. John McCain as each candidate observed the war's fifth anniversary Wednesday.

Obama asks to move past 'racial wounds'

drowland@dispatch.com — 19 Mar 2008 08:45:10 -0400

Plunging headlong into the volatile mixture of race, religion and politics yesterday, Barack Obama condemned as "inexcusable" remarks by his longtime pastor but said such comments reflect the anger both blacks and whites feel when confronted with injustice.

Top House Dem stumps for Wulsin

18 Mar 2008 15:05:00 EST

Governor kicks off work on new Statehouse Museum

ajohnson@dispatch.com — 18 Mar 2008 21:43:28 -0400

There was no ground to break today for the new Ohio Statehouse Museum. So they broke a wall. Wearing a green hardhat and wielding a sledge hammer, Gov. Strickland joined other state officials in gleefully knocking holes in a plaster wall in the Salmon P. Chase Classroom on the ground level of the Statehouse. The wall is coming down to make room for a new gift shop as part of the $3.5 million Statehouse Museum, set to open one year from now. However, the gift shop will reopen in its new location Aug. 1.

$3,000 available for Franklin County families facing foreclosure

bcarmen@dispatch.com — 18 Mar 2008 22:00:53 -0400

Franklin County is laying money on the table to bail out those facing foreclosure. A new grant program approved today is aimed at middle-class homeowners and will provide up to $3,000 apiece to help them catch up on payments and settle late fees.