Dispatch:
The state is ready to close another chapter in the saga of coin dealer Thomas W. Noe after selling $2.55 million in collectibles that were part of an ill-fated $50 million investment at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Thousands of items, including presidential memorabilia, movie posters, baseball cards and other collectibles that Noe had bought with bureau money, were sold to an Illinois-based auction house.....
* Ohio Gov. Strickland won't take a 2.8% raise. Cleveland Leader:
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is turning down the automatic pay raise that according to state law he is entitled to receive. As Strickland approaches his second year in office, a state law that is soon to expire called for him, and other statewide elected official, judges, county and township elected officials to receive annual raises on the rate of inflation or 3 percent, whichever is less.
The rate of the pay raise for 2008 would thus be 2.8.%. Strickland is currently paid $144,831. After the cost-of-living adjustments, lawmakers in Ohio will be paid about $60,500 per year.
"People in public office should attempt to lead by example I made a difficult decision [early this year] that a lot of good people who work for the state and who may very well deserve a pay raise won't be getting one," said Strickland.....
Thank you. Now we watch to see if the Ohio Republicans in the state legislature, who have done nothing to fix school funding, take their raises.
* According to KBS, voter turnout in South Korea's election was only 62.9%. Only 62.9%.
