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AGAIN: Senate Republicans leave town with unfinished business

2:52pm Thursday, October 16, 2003

The Ohio Senate Republican leadership, under direction of President Doug White, has once again left Columbus without appointing conferees. They will not return to session until after the 2003 Election, and then are only scheduled for one day in November, and a few tentative days in December. In another disappointment, Senate President White has informed Tony Gordon Memorial 'Defense' Walk...

''Solo open-carry in Ohio - a 3-cop encounter''

10:21am Thursday, October 16, 2003

The following note has been posted to the GlockTalk.com discussion list. The writer experienced the following in Northeast Ohio: Took the dog for a walk again today [while openly carrying a loaded firearm, per Supreme Court ruling & current Ohio law]. Was about 150 ft. from the end of the walk at the car lot next to my parents house when a police car with lights on pulls up in front of me. I...

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Ohio concealed carry fight aired on Rush Limbaugh program

9:53am Thursday, October 16, 2003

Ohio's Troubles with Liberal Republicans Brings National Attention to Concealed Carry Issue On Tuesday, guest host Tom Sullivan, of Sacramento, latched on to a Wall Street Journal editorial about the burgeoning sales tax revolt in Ohio, and raised the larger subject of liberal Republican politics in Ohio, drawing a parallel to the plight of Californians under former Governor Gray Davis. OFCC's...

Cleveland cowboy action shooters to join Lorain 'Defense' Walkers

8:54pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Ohio's largest cowboy action shooting club, The Firelands Peacemakers, has notified Lorain 'Defense' Walk organizer Dan White that their members will join other Clevelanders who plan to openly carry firearms this Sunday in a visual display of the choice Ohioans have before them as a result of the Supreme Court ruling which upheld a ban on concealing a firearm for self-defense. "Opponents of...

Cleveland: public officials AND criminals give welcome to tourists

4:23pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003

In an October 15 editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is singing the praises of reformers who are promising to root out corruption in the Greater Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The bureau - which gets more than four-fifths of its budget from taxes on hotel guests - was rocked last spring by news reports of spending on travel, meals and sports outings that seemed to benefit bureau...

Defenseless Toledo ''mall employee raped twice in 4-hour ordeal''

2:28pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003

An employee at a store at Westfield Shoppingtown Franklin Park was forced into her car at knifepoint by a man who raped her in her vehicle at a nearby apartment complex, drove her around for several hours, and sexually assaulted her again in South Toledo. As the 41-year-old Toledo woman walked to her car in the parking lot at the West Toledo mall around 9:10 p.m. Monday, the man approached her...

Toledo gun control policies continue to fail to protect residents from criminals

10:53am Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Toledoans wishing to exercise their recently-upheld Constitutional, "fundamental individual right" to bear arms for self-defense cannot do so in Toledo. The following ordinance is being cited by Chief Mike Navarre as reason for which anyone openly carrying a firearm for self-defense within the city limits would be arrested. Toledo Municipal Code 549.18. Weapon possession in public places...

Dispatch: Academy will train residents to fight crime

9:24am Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Mayor to launch program on South Side October 08, 2003 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Mayor Michael B. Coleman outlined the final piece of his crime-fighting plan yesterday: the creation of the Neighborhood Safety Academy. The academy doesn’t have a building or charge tuition — it’s a curriculum that would travel to different neighborhoods where city employees would teach residents to prevent and report...