with the markets now officially in a "correction" -- worth taking a second look at Spinelli's article from Monday -- originally posted Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 06:00:08 PM EST -- cho

ePluribus Media OhioNews Bureau

OhioNews Bureau: Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray, a Democrat approaching his first year in office, has acknowledged in a published report what others, especially new Gov. Ted Strickland, may be unwilling to say so forcefully in pubic these days, namely, that many Buckeye families are now in a financial crisis.

Cordray, a candidate who surfed into office last year with new governor Strickland and other Democratic candidates atop a wave of dissatisfaction with 16 years of Republican rule, is using the tools of his office, which generally pale in power or popularity with those of governor or attorney general, to set up a first-of-its kind, interactive financial-literacy Website called Your Money Now.

Depending on whether you are hind-sighted or fore-sited will determine whether Cordray's cool, informative and playful plan is defensive or proactive.

Ohio, the nation's 7th most populous state whose rich history of being home to numerous muscle-bound industrial giants is the worse for wear due to years of powerful body blows delivered to it in the new era of globalization and job out-sourcing, now finds itself listed among leaders in various categories of economic ignominy it would rather not be a leader in.

ePluribus Media OhioNews Bureau

ONB COLUMBUS: Before Gov. Ted Strickland can really turn around Ohio, as he famously promised to do as a candidate for the office last year, he might first have to first turn on the Internet, especially in many of the state's rural counties where the slow speed of expanding high-speed broadband connectivity puts residents and business at a competitive disadvantage to other states and the rest of the world.

But even as news from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that Ohio will receive $35.4 million, part of a larger $ 417 million distribution from its Rural Health Care Pilot Project (RHCPP) designed to deliver rural residents high-speed Internet access for acute, primary and preventive health care, the news from the BBC that aboriginal tribesmen living in Taiwan's remote central mountain area are logging on using broadband connections should be a wake up call to get with it before its too late.

When 700 members of the Tsou tribe are using the Internet to market local farmer's produce and lure travelers to local restaurants and hotels, the paucity and slow-speeds of Internet connectivity throughout Ohio's many rural counties is both troubling and confusing, considering Ohio's Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a model state initiative but its Statehouse, where the state's future is up for grabs on any day the legislature is in session, only recently became WI-FI enabled.

Tho I am still uncommitted candidate-wise, it's very help that cosbo and others are providing information about all candidates...the better informed we are, the better our choices. -- cho

"Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are terrorists of a kind...." [Excerpt from an email written by a heavily indoctrinated and reactionary US American]

By Jason Miller

Thomas Paine's Corner

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=460

For a year now I have been an ethical vegetarian. Last Thanksgiving, I made what I thought was an enlightened moral decision to stop eating meat and to severely restrict my egg and dairy consumption. However, an email recently hit my inbox that presents such a powerful argument justifying the wanton torture and slaughter of animals (so we can please our palates) that my moral sensibilities and capacity to reason have been utterly disarmed. Signed with a cryptic "JC," this missive pummeled me with points I had not even considered when I made what I now rightly view as my ridiculous decision to go "meatless."

This is a follow up to Nick Bentont's last editorial. Like me and many other American's his grandparents were immigrants. I found this a very moving editorial about values that he and I share. In the final analysis there are no "native Americans." Even the "first Americans" came here from Asia a long while ago.

His editorial appears below the fold, and is posted in full with his permission.

Just wanted to give everybody a little update on the site migration (which is going very well!) and thank everybody for helping test the new sites and for all of the feedback they have given.  It is much appreciated ...

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Here is where we are now:
All of the sites you know and love have been migrated.  Yipee! Yahoo! We are still working on a few minor glitches, but all of the new sites and all of the old (archived) sites are available and functioning within normal operating parameters.

The new sites are best viewed in Firefox 2.X and IE 7.X ... if you have an older browser, we strongly recommend that you update it. We are getting reports of display glitches in older browsers that magically disappear when the browser is updated.

It is estimated that the Bush Administration is responsible for the death's of over a million innocent Iraqi civilians. This is a "statistic" that is all too often overlooked in coverage of this abominable war. There are so many reasons to get American troops out of Iraq but this genocide ranks high on the list.

A story by Mark Weisbrot on Holocaust Denial, American Style estimates Iraqi civilian casualties now up be to one million.

This is am important update from a year ago when Chris Write's article Suffer the Little Children that was posted on the ePm community site last New Year's Day.

See below for an excerpt from his article and the current update by Weisbrot.

Bill Moyer's writes about how President Roosevelt spoke to the hopes and aspirations of ordinary Americans in an article My Father and FDR in the Nation. See below for some excerpts.