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Cleveland to Get Jobs

Submitted by rightangle on June 15, 2006 - 7:20am.

From the PD

Beachwood's DigiKnow Inc. has agreed to relocate its headquarters to Cleveland and bring with it at least 50 jobs.

It's the third large high-tech firm to leave the suburbs for Cleveland proper in the last year, illustrating the city's push to lure innovative companies.

King Hill, who is president of the growing interactive marketing company, had been looking for a new home base for almost a year.

This is good, but isn't this the poaching that Frank Jackson hates?

 

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Latest on the GOP and Cleveland

Submitted by rightangle on June 15, 2006 - 7:24am.

From the PD

As part of its proposal, Cleveland promised it could raise at least $25 million toward costs such as podium construction and decorations.

The Republican Party, formally known as the Republican National Committee, invited 34 cities to bid for the event, which is expected to draw 50,000 visitors and inject an estimated $100 million into the local economy. Only Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York and Tampa-St. Petersburg submitted proposals.

Cleveland's bid offers Quicken Loans Arena as the main convention site, with large tents, nearby hotels and the former Higbee Building providing additional office, function and media space.

The site selection committee will visit the arena, other event sites and hotels in all the cities, RNC spokesman Aaron McLear said.

Bob Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, said he's hoping to pinpoint concerns before the visit so the city can address them head-on in August.

Regardless of your political preference, Ohio is just so key in national politics, this would make a great choice for any political convention.

 

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More ink equals more blood

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What's Black and White and Red All Over? By Richard Morin Thursday, June 15, 2006; Page A02

 

More ink equals more blood, claim two economists who say that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks.

 

It's a macabre example of win-win in what economists call a "common-interest game," say Bruno S. Frey of the University of Zurich and Dominic Rohner of Cambridge University.

 

"Both the media and terrorists benefit from terrorist incidents," their study contends. Terrorists get free publicity for themselves and their cause. The media, meanwhile, make money "as reports of terror attacks increase newspaper sales and the number of television viewers."

 

The researchers counted direct references to terrorism between 1998 and 2005 in the New York Times and Neue Zuercher Zeitung, a respected Swiss newspaper. They also collected data on terrorist attacks around the world during that period. Using a statistical procedure called the Granger Causality Test, they attempted to determine whether more coverage directly led to more attacks.

 

Too often what take years to learn by the academic community is known straight away by the citizen through intuition and gut instinct. I guess it doesn’t take a lead weight to fall on your head to figure out what’s going on, to paraphrase Aldo Ray, aka, Master Sergeant Muldoon in the John Wayne’s “The Green Berets.” The MSM is causing death and injury to our soldiers, marines, airman, and sailors through their incessant effort to turn America against the President and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

How many more reasons do you need to stop reading, watching, and listening to the MSM?

Brian Duffy

 

 

Update: “Zarqawi's Plans: Use the Media”

 

 I found this at Little Green Footballs:

 

His first recommendation to deal with the increased success of coalition forces: use the media.

 

1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase the number of supporters who are refusing occupation and show the clash of interest between society and the occupation and its collaborators. To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance.

 

What more will it take for America to wake up?

 

 

 

 

 

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Slow News Day for the Dispatch

Submitted by conservativeguy on June 15, 2006 - 9:52am.

yep

Slow trickle of gubernatorial campaign dollars adds up

Both major-party gubernatorial campaigns last week revealed they were taking on water.

Along with the big bucks going for TV ads and polling, staffers charged the campaign fund of Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell about $135 for car washes (no mention whether those were the same cars for which $330 was spent in valet parking).

And amid the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on consultants and media buys by Democrat Ted Strickland, almost $300 went for bottled water (no hint if it was consumed during $57 worth of document-shredding).

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Fighting Words by Ken Blackwell

Submitted by rightangle on June 15, 2006 - 2:48pm.

Thanks to the Blade and Sixers

"The opposition party, they think they've knocked us down," Mr. Blackwell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, said. "They're looking to see if we're going to give up. … This party and this county and this state cannot quit. We must get up and fight."

Mr. Blackwell's speech drew heavily on references to the religious faith of America's founders and President Lincoln. He wove his personal faith in God - which influences his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage - with his faith in free-market solutions to Ohio's economic woes.

"Our rights are not grants from government," Mr. Blackwell said. "They are gifts from God. And when you understand that, you will understand and respect what has driven the American legacy of limited government."

Democrats, he added, "still believe that government is God, and God is not."

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