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Title: Supreme Court ruling strikes down Ohio incentives challenge.
Author: Becky Gillette
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Date: May 29, 2006
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In this regional edition for Michiugan and Ohio, doctorsare named who have had disciplinary action taken against theirlicense. This project, titled 16,638 Questionable Doctors, wasdesigned to assist consumers in making better informed health carechoices. The individual doctor listings aid patients in understandingthe quality of care they would potentially receive or have alreadyreceived from a particular practitioner. Find out which doctors havebeen disciplined and why, how to increase your safety when choosing adoctor, how to file a complaint about a doctor and how to improve yourquality of medical care. ... Read more

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Lee Leonard covered Ohio politics for thirty-six years. This collection brings together his columns about the major figures, seminal events, and legends from the early 1970s through 2005. The historical digest covers the key issues and trends in Ohio politics and government including coverage of major campaigns, national political conventions, the governor's mansion, the Ohio legislature, and lobbying efforts. A must read for students of Ohio history and politics, and those who are interested in the inner workings of democracy. ... Read more

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A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all over the world in 1830. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and all-encompassing change. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs have assembled a focused collection of articles by established and rising scholars that address the conquest of Native Americans, the emergence of a democratic political culture, the origins of capitalism, the formation of public culture, the growth of evangelical Protestantism, the ambiguous status of African Americans, and social life in a place that most contemporaries saw as on the cutting edge of human history. Indeed, to understand what was happening in the Ohio country in the decades after the American Revolution is to go a long way toward understanding what was happening in the United States and the Atlantic world as a whole. For The Center of a Great Empire, distinguished historians of the American nation in its first decades question conventional wisdom. Downplaying the frontier character of Ohio, they offer new answers and open new paths of inquiry through investigations of race, education, politics, religion, family, commerce, colonialism, and conquest. As it underscores key themes in the history of the United States,The Center of a Great Empire pursues issues that have fascinated people for two centuries.Andrew R. L. Cayton, distinguished professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is the author of several books, including Ohio: The History of a Peopleand, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500-2000 . Stuart D. Hobbs is program director for History in the Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high school teachers of history. Hobbs is the author of The End of the American Avant Garde. ... Read more

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When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and evolution of Jewish communities in small towns on both banks of the river -- towns such as East Liverpool and Portsmouth, Ohio, Wheeling, West Virginia, and Madison, Indiana. Though not large, these communities influenced American culture and history by helping to develop the Ohio River Valley while transforming Judaism into an American way of life. The Jewish experience and the regional experience reflected and reinforced each other. Jews shared regional consciousness and pride with their Gentile neighbors. The antebellum Ohio River Valley's identity as a cradle of bourgeois America fit very well with the middle-class aspirations and achievements of German Jewish immigrants in particular. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created networks of businesses and families that were part of a distinctive middle-class culture. As a minority group with a vital role in each community, Ohio Valley Jews fostered religious pluralism as their contributions to local culture, economy, and civic life countered the antisemitic sentiments of the period. Jewish Communities on the Ohio River offers enlightening case studies of the associations between Jewish communities in the big cities of the region, especially Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and the smaller river towns that shared an optimism about the Jewish future in America. Jews in these communities participated enthusiastically in ongoing dialogues concerning religious reform and unity, playing a crucial role in the development of American Judaism. The history of the Ohio River Valley includes the stories of German and East European Jewish immigrants in America, of the emergence of American Reform Judaism and the adaptation of tradition, and of small-town American Jewish culture. While relating specifically to the diversity of the Ohio River Valley, the stories of these towns illustrate themes that are central to the larger experience of Jews in America.

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An opinion on this book from a Mariettan's point of view
I am part of the Jewish commmunity that once flourished in Marietta, Ohio.
Mrs. Shevitz has written a book about the HISTORY of Marietta Jewry, but
she does not know the intricacies of life there. I was born in the 30's, grew up in Marietta in the 40's and 50's, and can say that I never once had an incidence of anti-Semitism, nor did I ever feel any discrimination toward the Jewish population. In fact, the Gentiles seemed to respect us very much, and we were sometimes asked to explain our Holidays. All of us integrated into the Marietta population very seamlessly, and I don't want the readers of Ms. Shevitz's book to think otherwise.The Jewish students in the schools all excelled, they took off for the Jewish holidays, asking for assignments in advance. In all my years of living in Marietta, I never felt uncomfortable being of a different religion from the mainstream. We were all part of the most wonderful town in the most wonderful era. Marietta was populated by
fine, Christian, upstanding educated people who apparently had no prejudice toward the 20 to 50 Jewish families who were there during the
1920's to 1940's.As the children grew up, they left for colleges in bigger cities and didn't return to live in Marietta, so by attrition, the
Jewish community dwindled away. But anyone who grew up there, Jew or Gentile, has the fondest memories of Beautiful Marietta, my home town.
I am proud to have grown up Jewish in Marietta, and have nothing but the happiest memories of those years.

This story holds many a lesson
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River chronicles the establishment, rise and decline of the Jewish community on the banks of the Ohio River. In the introduction, Shevitz says that her research focuses on twenty-four communities. The two most different seem to be the communities in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

Shevitz takes readers through the duel challenges of "frontier" life and being a minority community (sometimes unwelcomed) in small-town America during pre-modern times. Along the way, readers witness the pressures of assimilation, the reinterpretation of self and the evolution of Judaism in American life, and the not always peaceful co-existence of different religious beliefs along the Ohio River. Readers also learn of the economic opportunities that presented themselves as a result of the changing economic and political climate (such as the advent of the railroad and the changing colonial influences in the region).

In addition to the external factors, readers learn about the opportunities that the Jewish communities created for themselves (through their structure, closeness through communications, self-reliance, and redefined sense of identity). Stories of the families who lived through these times humanizes the entire experience, and help readers appreciate the various forces that sometimes draw the community apart and sometimes create solidarity with the community.

Shevitz describes the Jewish experience of being part of a community within a community, being different from mainstream Americans, and trying to find one's voice within the Jewish community and within the larger community. She narrates the community's self-reliance, but self-reliance has both positive and negative effects. While it makes towns more independent, it also isolates different sub-populations. The latter would create a sense of "other" for the Jews, and may breed anti-Semitic sentiments among non-Jews.

The experiences related here can be applied to other minority communities in the United States. The treatment of Japanese-Americans after World War II is one such example. In recent times, our attitudes towards American Muslims in general, and Arab-Americans in particular come to mind.

While Shevitz has penned a historical account, it is hoped that we learn from the lessons that history holds for us, and that Shevitz and other have portrayed for us.

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To understand Ohio politics is to understand American politics, a truth proven every two years in national elections.And no journalist has written more astutely or with greater zest about politics in the Buckeye State than Abe Zaidan.For more than forty years, he covered what could be called an age of giants, a tumultuous era dominated by larger-than-life politicians like the irrepressible Governor James Rhodes and by such wrenching events as the shootings at Kent State University.

Drawn from over three thousand news stories, columns, and feature articles written between 1964 and 2004, Portraits of Power presents ninety essays that, in Zaidan's witty and vivid style, shed light on this fascinating period of Ohio politics.Readers who lived through those years will be transported back to critical junctures in their lives, while those who did not will have a better understanding of the forces that helped to shape their world.Portraits of Power is not only the "first draft of history."In Abe Zaidan's shrewd and polished prose, it is also political literature that has outlasted the cause of its occasion. ... Read more

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An array of primary sources documenting the dishonesty and disenfranchisement that tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004.

"It is my professional opinion that these numbers are fraudulent."—statistician Richard Hayes Philips, PhD, in reference to Ohio's 2004 Presidential vote count, from his deposition in the Moss v. Bush lawsuit, which reached the Ohio Supreme Court

In the first comprehensive look at the most critical state's voting process in the 2004 presidential election, three pathbreaking investigative journalists (one a member of the legal team that sued the state of Ohio for election fraud), compile documentary evidence of massive potential theft and fraud in the presidential vote—problems that may have changed the outcome of the presidential election in Ohio, and thus the nation.

What Happened in Ohio? includes trucking receipts that show voting machines were pulled back from minority districts; ballots that contain evidence of tampering; mathematical analysis demonstrating the statistical impossibility of voting totals; testimonials from hundreds of voters, campaign workers, and poll workers about conditions that effectively disenfranchised thousands of voters; copies of flyers instructing Democrats to "vote on Wednesday"; official letters sent to tens of thousands of long-time voters incorrectly informing them they had been deemed "inactive" and ineligible to vote; photos taken of the original exit poll data broadcast on election night before it was retroactively "corrected" by the networks; and much, much more.

For anyone suspicious of the Ohio vote, here's the evidence you've been waiting for.

•Total number of votes by which George W. Bush won Ohio: 118,775
•Total number of ballots, mostly from Democratic precincts, that were rejected and remain uncounted: 92,672
•Estimated number of provisional ballots, many from Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and other Democratic centers, that were ruled invalid and not counted: 35,000
•Total number of votes received by Bush in Gahanna, Ohio, Ward 1B: 4,258
•Total number of ballots cast in Gahanna, Ohio, Ward 1B: 638 ... Read more

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We Were Warned
Now that Hillary Clinton's improbable and stunning win in the first-in-the-Nation New Hampshire primary has entered the history books, it is time to pick this book up again and read it to truly understand how Democracy in America has been stolen.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Republicans would rather run against Hillary than any other Democrat contender. It is she out of the three top runners the Republican National Committee believe they can defeat.Diebold machines were used throughout NH, the same Deibold machines which are easily hackable and which do not allow for after-the-fact examination.

Exit polls in NH did not support in any way, shape or form the results between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the fact that the final results and the exit polls conformed so precisely with all other contenders, Republican AND Democrat, makes the Obama/Clinton results even more alarming and sinister.

Thousands of very wealthy, avariciouspeople around the world thrive in Banana Republics, using their wealth and influence to achieve a pampered and privileged existence while the rest of their society has to deal with lawlessness, lack of education, lack of health care, lack of decent infrastructure, lack of security and lack of freedom and opportunity to gain true prosperity.Americans are now facing the same kind of future and paradigm. The question is, are they going to allow themselves to be stupified by a compliant and equally avaricious Media or are they going to educate themselves and rise up to prevent it? ... Read more

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Frances McGovern gives an entertaining account of her life and the colorful people she knew in local, state, and national politics, from her start as a young lawyer in 1949 through 1964 when she quit politics after an unsuccessful run for Congress. An insightful memoir from an era when the industrial Midwest still dominated American politics and men dominated the industrial Midwest, McGovern illustrates just how fun, cheap, and easy local politics could be.
Go with her to covered dish suppers, picnics, and church basements, to the Ohio House of Representatives where she served three terms, the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, and two of the century's most exciting Democratic National Conventions. Join her as she takes the Kennedy women through Ohio in 1960. Share her rides with Hubert Humphrey in Barberton and President Johnson in Akron, and her tea party for Lady Bird at the old Mayflower Hotel.
Best of All, enjoy her stories of political figures of both parties--a refreshing behind the scenes look at politics on a local and state level. ... Read more

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This fascinating and disturbing book is the official record of testimony taken by the Democratic Members and Staff of the House Judiciary Committee, presided over by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the Ranking Member. Originally published in January, 2005 by the Government Printing Office, it has been edited and re-designed for maximum readability. Both a riveting and alarming report on the status of our ailing presidential election process, this book provides new insights into the abuse and manipulation of electronic voting machines and the arbitrary and illegal behavior of a number of elected and election officials which effectively disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters in order to change the outcome of an election. The material in this report should be used as a guidebook to fixing our federal elections. ... Read more

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how to "fix" an election
I love the Editorial Review book description 'The material in this report should be used as a guidebook to "fixing" our federal elections.'

There's Something Rotten in the State of Ohio
In his book "Armed Madhouse..." author Greg Palast quotes Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. "It's not the votes that count. It's who counts the votes." After you read the dry but factual 116 pages of this book, you will come to the inescapable conclusion that the election was stolen from presidential candidate John Kerry and given to Mr. Bush.

The book is divided into facts (what happened) and analysis (the motive and how it could have happened). It starts with Ohio's secretary of state, a republican, Kenneth Blackwell who promised to "fill in the blanks" regarding voting anomalies but has kept silent in the finest tradition of "political omerta." He has refused to initiate any investigations, and has tried his best to have the ballots destroyed.

Here's some of what Conyers uncovers:

Republican challengers were at every precinct causing massive voting delays. This is called caging, and it is illegal. Republican challengers targeted 97% of new voters in black areas. They only challenged 14% of new voters in white areas.

There were voting machine lockdowns preventing observation of ballot counts. This too is illegal.

There were flipped votes. Voters reported that they had voted for Kerry and watched their vote register for George Bush. These "glitches" were called "calibration problems."

The number of votes vs. voters. In many places the number of voter turn-out exceeded 100%. (?) In one case nearly 19,000 votes were added after all precincts reported.

There were repairs being made by the electronic voting machine company while the ballots were being recounted. This too is illegal.

In Ohio the exit polls which asked the people how they voted, showed that Kerry had won. Men and women voters gave a majority to Kerry. These polls are usually very accurate. So, how did exit polls that put Kerry ahead 52% to 48% turn around after the ballots were counted?

After reading this book, you can only arrive at one conclusion: There's something rotten in the state of Ohio.

Update: Blackwell ran for governor in Ohio this past November and was defeated. Those ballots he could not manage to hide.

An American Patriot, John CONYERS For President.
As with his always-learned, always JUDICIOUS "sponsorship," or whatever the REPUB. "Americans$$," allowed him to term it, of the explosive DOWNING STREET MEMO(S) hearings of June, 2005, Congressman Conyers has done it again, with this telling and factually-based book, telling just a part of the story, of yet again, the FAS$CISTS$, ie the REPUB. "Americans$$$," under this "King" George The Second, with his Utterly SERVANTILE, Election-THIEVING CRIMINAL, as Ohio's only ALLEGED 'Secretary of State," IE his being the Co-CAMPAIGN HEAD for OHIO, of the BUSH-CHENEY Campaign.

(*****-And what IF JOHN F. KERRY, had won Ohio, or any OTHER State's "Votes,"and "Election," under such Criminally UNETHICAL Circumstances?! The REPUB. "Americans$$" in the White House and Congress$$$, would be calling for Kerry';s head, if not his Public CRUCIFIXION, much like they REFUSED to "PATRIOTICALLY, and Decently," Back up DULY-ELECTED President CLINTON in his AIRSTRIKES and MASSIVE CRUISE Missile Strikes against Bin Laden's Camps in Afghanistan, AND his Chemical Weapon PRECURSOR Material Factor in Al Shifa, Sudan. INSTEAD these Repub. "Americans$$" would only cry out., "No Wars for MONICA," and "Hand over the semen-stained BLUE DRESS"?! 9 or MORE of the Repub. "Americans$" on the Repub. "Impeachement" teams, in seanate and congress, were SERIAL WIFE-CHEATERS, themselves!) Well Done, congressman Cponyers, Sir, a TRUE American Patriot, in utter CONTRAST to the FAS$CISTS, such as KARL ROVE, GW BUS$H, and Ohio Secretary of State, Ken, toally, ANTI-"Black"WELL!!

They, GW and Karl ROVE also MET with BLACKWELL< right on that TUESDAY, Nov. 2nd, "Election" Day Morning in COLUMBUS, OHIO, to Further FINALIZE their Plans to STEAL OHIO. That CRIMINAL MEETING, alone, merits impeachment hearings, though SO VERY MUCH more, lawless WIRETAPPING of tens of MILLIONS of Americans(when AL QUEDA, long since, years ago, STOPPED Using the internet and even cell phones in their important communications, they only USE COURIERS, according to our OWN Intel. Services), the AGGRESSIVE WARS$ in IRAQ, and Iran to follow, for their OIL RESERVES$$, the Pre-9/11/2001 DEALINGS$ with, and Bribings$ of the TALIBAN LEADERSHIP, in AFGHANISTAN, for the CENTRAL ASIAN Gas/Oil Pipelines$, this TRAITOROUS$, as well, as Outgoing Clinton OfficialS, many of them TRIED TO WARN all of the incoming "Elected"(after 12/12/2000 UNSIGNED "Ruling," by the CRIMINAL US Supreme, "Court," ah-hem) BUS$H ADMINISTRATION,m that the AL QUEDA THREAT would be their greatest THREAT and Concern, throughout the Bush Presidency, this "way back"(but a blink of the eye, to "God," though, Folks!) in Dec. 2000-January 2001!!

Add to this GW Bus$h's seeing the August 6th, 2001 FULLY Documented CIA, etcetera, Dire Warning and "Memo"{though it was much MORE involved than THAT, as were the INTEL. Agency warnings in Summer-fall of 2001, from over 20 Allied and other Nations, of an IMMINENT AL QUEDA Attack on US Soil, so much so that at the july, 2001 Genoa G-8 Economic talks, the ENTIRE AREA of the talks and of genoa, Italy, was RINGED with anti-aircraft MISSILES, and GW had to Sleep off shore in a Battleship or aircraft carrier, John ASHCROFT stops flying Commercial AIRLINES in June-July 2001, onwards, but has his FBI warn NO ONE, in the nation's aviation system?!), etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and you can see why, ... well, we need a U.S. "GOVERMENT-IN-EXILE" to start, against this Twice, "elected" Bunch, folks, like it or don't.

Again, well done, Congressman CONYERS, SIR!! Leftist and PROUDLY, PROGRESSIVELY-PATRIOT, "Ex" Marine(who took my pledge to Uphold the US CONSTITUTION, above ALL ELSE!!) herein, God Bless Yee, good Lad!!

And to OHIO's "Secretary of State," and perhaps, to be Criminally "Elected," as well, as "Governor" of Ohio, Mr. J. Kenneth, ANTI-"BLACK"-Well, Sir, ... May The Good Lord, Blessed Jesus, i.e., JOSHUA, I.E., The Christ of Human History, I.E.,the PRINCE, ... of PEACE, have mercy on your LOST SOUL, Sir.

Democrats always right, Republicans always wrong

Clinton 1996, 49% of vote - winner

Bush 2004, 51% of vote - loser

Right...

What went wrong in Ohio??
The only thing that went wrong in Ohio is that it gave the idiot Dems another thing to WHINE ABOUT!! Which we Republicans are pleanty tired of!! Mrs. Miller, please don't quit your day job!! The book really needs help. ... Read more

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The Toledo War
This is a very interesting and well-researched work.Much discussed in the Toledo and Michigan area, but largely ignored as an academic subject, this topic was long overdue for the excellent treatment this qualified author gives it.An interesting read that includes much about the context of the times in which the event occurs.

Fascinating history
This is a well written account of a fascinating piece of American history. The book is definitely worth a read.My only criticism is that the author tends to wander in an almost stream-of-conscious manner throughout the book.This is most especially noticeable during the last few chapters of the book where the writer jumps back to the middle of the war after already addressing the war's end and Michigan's admission into statehood. Don't let that stop you from enjoying an otherwise fine book.

a "War" between Ohio & Michigan and the Loser was ...Wisconsin
It was a war in which no humans were killed.It supposedly involved principle, prestige and honor.Some have argued that in the end both sides received land that neither had a right to possess.This conflict was between the state of Ohio and the then territory of Michigan. And it's probably accurate to say that most current residents of Ohio and Michigan are unaware that a nasty argument over a 468 square mile strip of land around Toledo had Buckeyes and Wolverines in a fighting mood during the early 1830s.It is known to history as the "Toledo War".

The conflict over the strip had been festering for some time before it came to a head in 1835 when Michigan desired to become a state.But Ohio (which had become a state in 1803) said "no way, Michigan".Ohioans wanted no statehood for their neighbors to the north until a boundary dispute between the two was settled. . . in Ohio's favor.

A few specifics.If the language of the Northwest Ordinance (of 1787) had been strictly followed, the strip belonged to Michigan.That is what President Andrew Jackson's Attorney General ruled.But Ohio had claimed(at the time and shortly after it achieved statehood)that its northern boundary should be north of the disputed strip, and therefore Toledo, and its lucrative future economic possibilities belonged to the Buckeye state.

In the end, as it often does, political might ruled.Ohio (and Indiana and Illinois, which had also benefitted) had voting Senators, Congressmen, and electoral votes.Michigan, as a territory, had none of these. The compromise solution:Ohio to receive the 468 square mile Toledo strip and Michigan gets 9,000 square miles of land in the western upper peninsula - - land that was detached from Wisconsin territory!So, in the words of one writer (described in the book as an Ohio historian):"Both parties acquired lands...that neither had any legal right to....If there was one loser in all this, it was Wisconsin...." (p. 182)

The little known and at times humorous subject is revived in this 2008 book by Don Faber.The book skips around quite a bit and is not always easy to follow. The Toledo War awaits its historian, but in the meantime this account may be the best we have on a topic that doesn't get discussed much except perhaps in Ohio history and Michigan history textbooks and courses.

I especially like the epilogue where the author discusses Michigan's "lost peninsula". Bet you didn't know about that!
Tim Koerner July 2009 ... Read more

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The definitive history of recent Ohio politics!
Wow!This is an epic tale of everything there is to know about Ohio politics -- featuring all there is to know about the Governors, legislators, and average citizens of the Buckeye state.In this bookreaders will find the "real story" behind the headlines.Thepages turn like a thriller -- I heartily endorse it! ... Read more