My colleagues have been posting about this all week, but I wanted to wait until it seemed like there really was going to be an extension to the FTH Buyers Federal Tax Credit. Yesterday it passed in the Senate (and not one Senator voted against it, imagine that). The House passed the Home-buyer Tax Credit [...]
Entries Tagged as 'politics'
Home Buyer’s Tax Credit Extension – Looks Like It’s Almost a Done Deal
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · politics
Check Your Polling Place Locations…And Vote!
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections lets you check your voting location here. My location changed for the last election (the primary) and yours may have changed too. Let’s surprise the heck out of the Board and ALL vote….. Peace Out – 3C
Tags: politics
How To Learn About Issue 6 In A Bit More Detail
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Participated in a live chat tonight on WKYC’s website which was allegedly set up to discuss Issues 5 and 6. The discussion was mostly of the talking heads nature (tangents on things like corruption and the Med Mart were annoying). But I was able to glean some written info on sites that everyone might find [...]
Why I am Voting For Issue 6 and Against Issue 5
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Sometimes it just seems wrong to not give an opinion. Issue 6 (and by default Issue 5) are important enough that most of us have spent time figuring out the details and deciding how to vote. I admit one thing: it took me forever to get 5 and 6 straight. Part of the strategy I’m [...]
Tags: politics
Musings on Health Care and Insurance
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Not a topic normally covered here, but two things keep rolling around in my brain so I have to post about it. That’s life as a blogger I guess! First, I received a call from what I will call an advance person for President Obama. He wanted to know if I would be willing to [...]
New Wards May Mean New Voting Places
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments
I hope everyone had terrific long weekend. What is sneaking up on us is primary election day, which is tomorrow. We had Ward redistricting in Cleveland. If you think they probably didn’t change where I vote, you just might be wrong. Go to the County BOE website to check your polling location. Just click on [...]
Tags: politics
Toledo’s Residency Requirements Bite The Dust Per Court & In Spite of Union Contracts
August 21st, 2009 · No Comments
The union contracts for Toledo workers were just renewed in April but today’s Ohio Supreme Court decision puts in question whether or not there will be a grandfathered period of time (length of union contract) when city workers will still have residency requirements. The decision is in line with what was decided for Akron earlier [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · neighborhood news · politics
Olbermann and O’Reilly Both Jump The Shark
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Howard Kurtz in today’s Washington Post gives a synopsis and the latest buzz on MSNBC/FOX and/or O’Reilly vs Olbermann. They both miss the point. Some of us don’t want to hear either one of them anymore! I’m a political junkie, always have been. But talking heads can make me crazy. During the past year I [...]
Tags: politics
Senator Voinovich In His Own Words On Support For Sotomayor
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Senator Voinovich speaks on the Senate Floor today (courtesy of You Tube). Not a fan of partisan politics, get upset when both parties send me spam email dissing the ‘other side.’ And I still feel that we can’t really solve any of our critical issues until we stop partisan posturing. But I have yet to [...]
Tags: politics
You Are Not Dreaming, The House Added More Money for High Speed Rail
July 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Andrew Taylor’s AP article discusses it here. The amount of money available for high speed rail went up to almost 13 billion dollars. You can read about everything that happened today on The Hill here in the Congressional Record Digest. I’m thinking we could entice rail making companies to our shores…remember the idea of taking [...]
Tags: economic news · Ohio Rail and Transit · politics
