Ohio News

Buckeye fans: The Dispatch has posted the football schedule for the Ohio State Buckeyes:

DATE	OPPONENT	TIME
Sept. 1	Youngstown State	TBA
Sept. 8	Akron	TBA
Sept. 15	at Washington	3:30 p.m
Sept. 22	Northwestern	TBA
Sept. 29	at Minnesota	8 p.m.
Oct. 6	at Purdue	8 p.m.
Oct. 13	Kent State	TBA
Oct. 20	Michigan State	3:30 p.m.
Oct. 27	at Penn State	8 p.m.
Nov. 3	Wisconsin	TBA
Nov. 10	Illinois	TBA
Nov. 17	at Michigan	TBA

*There continues to be more news surrounding the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation scandal from the former governor, Republican Bob Taft: (Toledo Blade)

Before Terrence Gasper's kickback scheme began unraveling, the former chief financial officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation had his golden years "well-planned," prosecutors said in documents filed in federal court yesterday.

Gasper planned to retire in October, 2005, with a full pension after 10 years with the bureau and was looking forward to living "at least part" of the time in a Florida Keys condo provided to him by two Cleveland-area investment brokers, prosecutors explained. He also would collect a salary from another broker - not yet named or charged - who previously made cash payments to Gasper in exchange for favors he arranged through the bureau's investment department....

.... Gasper is scheduled to be sentenced on May 9 in Akron after admitting that he took bribes from the bureau's money managers, including $25,000 from former Toledo-area rare coin dealer Tom Noe, in exchange for doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in lucrative state investment business.....

The next time that Ohio Republicans Robert Bennett, Jon Husted, and Kevin DeWine, or any member of the Ohio GOP, say that they are the party of ethics, just laugh in their faces!