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Kaptur thanks voters on outcome of election

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur applauds local voters for their participation in the historic elections. “I’m grateful for the outpouring of voters,” she said Nov. 5. Marcy Kaptur Although the final...

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Director goes on leave amid probe of Ohio plumber

COLUMBUS – Ohio’s governor placed on leave Friday an agency director who was questioned over why state computers were used to find personal information on a man who became known as “Joe the Plumber”...

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Ohio elections chief calls for voting summit

COLUMBUS – Two reports are coming – from very different directions – about Ohio’s election system. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, has convened a December voting summit to...

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Scandal cuts short Ohio governor’s election party

COLUMBUS – The postelection honeymoon didn’t last long for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. He was still basking in the glow of delivering Ohio for president-elect Barack Obama when his staff learned his top...

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4 more punished over ‘Joe the Plumber’ searches

Two more senior managers at the Ohio agency where computers were used to dig up information about “Joe the Plumber” have been suspended without pay for their roles in the searches, an official at the...

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OPINION: Handling of ‘Joe’ investigation risky for Strickland

By JULIE CARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent There are conflicting aspects to Gov. Ted Strickland’s treatment of his human services chief: the political and the practical. Ohio’s government...

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Joe the Plumber pitches analog-to-digital coupons

Northwest Ohio’s “Joe the Plumber” is appearing in a Toledo company’s online video reminding people to convert analog TVs to digital. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher also tells viewers of the VelocityStore.com...

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Business-led effort aims to recall mayor, establish PAC

If a group of Toledo-area business people has its way, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, at worst, will face a recall ballot during the 2009 primary election in September. At best, they said, he will resign...

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Employee says ‘Plumber’ probe concealed

The state employee directed to run a records check on Joe the Plumber told Ohio lawmakers one manager ordered the check and another dictated an e-mail sent from her address covering up the act. The...

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Ohio official in ‘Joe the Plumber’ flap resigns

An Ohio agency director resigned Dec. 17 in the wake of a finding that she improperly used state computers to access personal information on the man who became known as “Joe the Plumber” during the...

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Successor chosen for official in ‘plumber’ flap

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has named a replacement for the embattled social services director who authorized a state records check on the man known as “Joe the Plumber” during the presidential campaign....

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Local author’s book featured on podcast

The children’s picture book “Dad’s Bald Head” by University of Toledo professor Paul Many, is scheduled to be featured on Sunday, Jan. 3 on “Just One More Book!” a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes...

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Local leaders offer their thoughts on historic event

Toledo Free Press asked local leaders for their perspective on the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama. Tom Waniewski, Toledo City Council I’ve been to two inaugurations, and no matter...

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Joe the Plumber fights for ‘practical good’

Six weeks after he became a household name, Samuel Wurzelbacher was making a sandwich in the kitchen of his Holland, Ohio, home. His son sat on a couch in a nearby room. Suddenly, it hit him: He was...

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Joe the Plumber calls gays ‘queer’

Samuel Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man hailed as “Joe the Plumber” by Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign last year, said he believes gays are “queer” and said he won’t allow them near his...

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