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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, STATE BUDGET FUNDS  -  TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011
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Budget cuts, economic development focus of “State of the County”
By Lyn Bliss, Senior Scribe

How do the local school facilities impact economic development effort in Darke County? “They drove by North School and they were gone,” said Commissioner Mike Stegall. While acknowledging that local school facilities have had an impact on bringing in new businesses, Darke County Commissioners Diane Delaplane, Mike Rhoades and Stegall, in their recent “State of the County” presentation to the Darke County Republican... Read More. See More News
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OBAMA BUDGET UNVEILED TO CONGRESS
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FoxNews... Obama Sends $3.7 Trillion Budget to Congress

Editor’s Note: Also posted at the end of this story are links from a variety of reports...

President Obama sent Congress a $3.73 trillion budget Monday, a spending plan for 2012 that projects $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade but also continues adding to the national debt for years to come. Republicans, who are still trying to cut... Read More. See More News.

TAX & TAX AGAIN... IN THE NAME OF HEALTH
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Toledo Blade editorial... Raise Ohio’s cigarette tax

(Article includes an Editor’s Note) Gov. John Kasich and the General Assembly have less than five months to fill a projected $8 billion chasm in Ohio’s $50 billion budget. The governor vows not to raise taxes to help close that gap. But what if Mr. Kasich were to get behind a tax increase that... Read More. See More Blogs.
 
MAKE REAL CUTS, PRES. OBAMA
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Obama’s Budget Bluff, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny part of the budget, not much worth fooling with. The reality, as we explain... Read More. See More Blogs.

SEN. FABER'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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  Grand Lake St. Marys Fish Tissue Study Shows No Microcystin In Samples
 
Grand Lake St. Marys is very dear to all of us.  Its restoration is a very high priority of mine.  I provided you all with Governor Kasich’s initial action plan last week, and I just wanted to follow up with some more good news about the lake.  The EPA released the below information last week: The “do not eat” fish consumption advisory for Grand Lake St. Marys... Read More. See More News.
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FROM THE EDITOR  -  TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011
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Darke County Commissioners gave their State of the County to the Darke County Republican Women’s Club recently… check it out to see their report on the fiscal and economic well-being of the county. While Ohioans are being taxed to death, some are still touting more taxes. Check out the Toledo Blade wanting to double the cigarette tax… then read my comments on this insanity. In Community: Pets of the Week. News: Jobs, unions, abortion on the docket. Blogs: Obama’s deficit reduction… a measly $400 billion over ten years. Obituaries: Evelyn Irene Fowble. For Yesterday's Home Page Click Here.

 
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