Monthly Archives: January 2010
Shape the Future of Central Ohio Survey
Shaping our Future is a plan the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) is spearheading for 12 counties in central Ohio, including Knox. Expected to be completed in 2012, Shaping Our Future will integrate elements that impact the region including the transportation system, land use patterns, air quality, energy security, water quality, food production, and economic [...]
Read moreKnox Co. to Receive Broadband Access Support
[from Senator Sherrod Brown's Newsroom]
Project to Expand Broadband Access in Morrow, Northern Delaware, Western Knox and Licking Counties
WASHINGTON, DC – Late last month, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Sec. Tom Vilsack to outline how more than $2 million in new funds for Ohio broadband expansion will help stimulate new [...]
Gov. Strickland, U.S. Sen. Brown Visit Unemployed Worker Job Retraining Program in Cleveland
[from Senator Sherrod Brown's Newsroom]
Governor, Senator Discuss Job Retraining Efforts Enabled by Recovery Funds
January 11, 2010
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown visited Project HIRE today to discuss the state and federal government’s job retraining efforts in Cleveland. Project HIRE, a state recovery initiative created this past spring through American [...]
· KCDW Meeting, 1/12
[ January 12, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Planning for 2010 will be the focus of the Knox Country Democratic Women for the first meeting of the new year at Summerville at Hillenvale on Yauger Road in the craft room. Included in the discussion will be programs for the coming year, finalizing the plans for the mental heath forum scheduled for March 2, [...]
Read moreOhio Teabaggers Shake Fist at Nation
“Tea Party” groups across Ohio are being invited to an event described by Dr. Gregory Thompson as one that will “bring together many warriors inside and outside of Ohio that [sic] are determined to return this nation under God and the Constitutional Republic it was for centuries.” Thompson, a Missouri resident and former school [...]
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