Carnival of Ohio Politics #82

One of my favorite places to visit is the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, so when I saw this patch for mission STS-82, it seemed to fit for this week's Carnival which includes some memories and some posts looking towards the future.


Scott Pullins of the Pullins Report shares more evidence of why he believes his earlier prediction, Ohio Republicans will be in a minority will come true.

Roland Hansen of Roland Hansen Commentary focuses on providing a very informational post on Selecting Judges in Ohio.

Jill Miller Zimon from her new web home, www.writeslikeshetalks.com first focuses on how much money Ohio mayoral candidates are spending on local pr firm services. Then Jill suggests Ben and Kyle need to visit the new casino spread site in PA, 12 miles from Y-town, and give us a video report. Last this week from Jill comes Tell-all from ex-White Hat Management/charter school business employee.

The City of Westlake is now banning smoking for their police force both on and off of the job according to Ben Keeler of the The Keeler Political Report.

Tom Blumer from Bizzy Blog pokes some fun at the ridiculously overheated "plagiarism" charge against Jean Schmidt with this post, The Technology Liberation Front Says to Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Street. Tom then shares his thoughts on the Mom who left her kid in her SUV for 8 hours to die down here in Clermont County in Cecilia Slaby Update: O, M, G. Last, a post about a Ohio blogger who singlehandedly set up feeds for various Centcom and Pentagon news efforts, so they are more likely to be seen in blog searches and other searches, Follow-up: Brain Shavings Does (Much of) CENTCOM’s Badly Needed Visibility Enhancement.

Conservative Culture's writers offer up these items for the public consumption, Marc Dann is either corrupt or a liar. You choose. Ohio... arm yourself and get your carry conceal.... there's a convoy of martyrs coming your way.. Then a story of importance to our agriculture in Ohio, Solved Mystery of the honeybee.

Yellow Dog Sammy reflects on the anniversary of 911 6th Anniversary of 9/11: Sad, Proud, Angry. Then the attention of Ohio Daily Blog turns to reactions to Petraeus and Crocker by Ohio federal legislators.

The Puddle Pirate shares some posts from Brain Shavings, first submitting a post on MoveOn.org's Senators. Then Three defense questions for Sutton, Brown and Voinovich (UPDATED) and lastly the Puddle Pirate focuses on there still being no Republican challenger for Betty Sutton's seat.

From Word of Mouth, a return to their roots: Flooded basements leading to pleas for help directed toward the city of Lorain. "Runnin' With the Devil" by Scott Bakalar. Then also by Scott Bakalar the first in a series chronicling whether the city's remedy for flooded basements actually works, "The Project Dry Bakalar Diaries: Part I". Henery Hawk shares, "Fame It--Shame It: Special Edition", that includes documentary photos of residential properties not up to code.

Pho over at Pho's Akron Pages first focuses on State Sen. Joy Padgett's retirement. Pho then shares why he feels Kevin Coughlin is generally so dislikable.

I was a bit under the weather health wise, but adding to my feeling of malaise was the very disappointing turnout for our recent primary.

Thank you to everyone who submitted entries for this week!