Carnival of Ohio Politics #145

If there's one thing that's always distinguished me from my brothers, it's my dislike for science fiction. Still, although they can recite word for word hundreds of episodes of Star Trek, from William Shatner (Kirk) through Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer)(who I really adored in Quantum Leap), I'm guessing that, since we've aged, I'm not the only sibling in my family who didn't know that IQ-145, a SciFi for the Web-only series, exists. Or that one of its leads is played by the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard's son. Let's do the time warp again, indeed.

Engage.

This week, Free Market Politics examines how and where foreign, non-union automakers thrive as well as the money politics involved for Ford and GM. The blog author also believes that Cleveland-based Lincoln Electric could use tax cuts and more trade opportunities but wonders whether the company will get either of those from the next Congress and President-elect Obama.

Neocon Panic Attack posted the language and link to a petition that protests how banks are receiving billions while workers go unpaid.

What do PETA and Ohio City's fireworks have in common? Did I mention the pregnant lady and the policeman too? You will have to read Whalertly to find out. (This could be a trick enticement, by the way.)

Co-Carnival editor Ben Keeler did some number crunching about the OH-15 race at The Point and wrote a couple of days before the final announcement that it did not look good for Statehouse Rep. Steve Stivers (R) (whose opponent was Mary Jo Kilroy). He followed up with an analysis of the actual results at the Keeler Political Report.

Buckeye Punditeers draws analogies between one judge's raison d'etre for his campaign and an Ohio Supreme Court decision that ordered 1000 provisional votes in the aforementioned OH-15 race to be disregarded. I suspect the theme of the post will continue to be with us for a very long time.

The scandal next door gets attention from Bearing Drift Ohio who also announces his latest effort to acquire some social media savvy.

Living in Ohio gives Just Blowing Smoke's review of the President-elect's "new new deal" gravitas.

BizzyBlog fisks the Columbus Dispatch reporting on revelations related to Ohio government workers' access of Joe Wurzelbacher's state information.

You are going to love this Not Your Ordinary Post about the auto industry! I'm a sucker for the kind of cleverness the Seneca County Blog gives us in that one.

Speaking of Seneca County, however, another Carnival co-editor, Lisa Renee Ward of Glass City Jungle, writes about how the Toledo Blade filed a complaint against that county's commissioners over deleted e-mails.

Rowsey Blog wants to get at the impetus for a story, also in the Dispatch, that he fears might be unnecessarily stoking fear - or might not be. I recommend checking it out and weighing in. Very interesting.

And, from Writes Like She Talks, in these times of reflection about who has contributed to the financial crises and to what extent, I want to examine the same question in regard to Ohio's prison population.

Many thanks to this week's participants and have a great rest of the week.