Ohio: Brown

I’ve been following the discussion related to Glass City Academy wanting to move to a new location, the former Congregation B’nai Israel synagogue and I also followed what happened back in 2006 when residents of South Toledo didn’t want the school near them. As the Blade points out in 2006 Glass City Academy while approved by the Toledo Plan Commission was denied their special use permit to open a charter school in South Toledo by Toledo City Council. It ended up being a court case. The Toledo City Council vote on this took place on October 3, 2006:

AN ORDINANCE NO.

One is a measure co-written by Republican Voinovich and Democrat Brown. It authorizes $1.8
billion nationally over five years to help communities pay for federally mandated repairs to sewer
systems. The communities would have to bear 75 percent of the cost. Many Ohio communities face
billions of dollars worth of such mandated improvements.

Another is a measure co-written by Voinovich and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and co-sponsored
by Brown. It authorizes Congress to send out up to $1.8 billion in federal grants to help modernize
sewer systems that often overflow into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water.

Both proposals were

included in a broader funding bill for water infrastructure that was approved Thursday by the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on which Voinovich serves.

"Our legislation holds

the federal government responsible for paying its

fair share for the nation's pressing water- and wastewater-infrastructure needs," Voinovich
said.

The Ohio Democrat helped launch a campaign yesterday for a so-called public plan to be included in the health-care reform bill that congressional Democratic leaders hope to send to President Barack Obama later this year.

Brown released a letter co-signed by 15 other Democratic senators telling the chairmen of the Senate finance and health committees, Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., that "there is no reason to believe that private insurers alone will meet the public purpose of ensuring coverage for all Americans at an affordable price for taxpayers."

Brown also joined Sens. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in unveiling a national poll that found that two-thirds of respondents favor a "public health plan that people can count on to cover what they need at more affordable rates.

President Obama's job approval has taken a dive in Ohio, a new poll released this morning shows.

"Not surprisingly, the honeymoon is over," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"But the era of good feeling is still alive."

What that means is that the survey's new numbers for Obama 57 percent approval, 33 percent disapproval are still healthy, especially in a state Obama won by only 4 percentage points last fall, Brown said.

But it's quite a fall from the stratospheric numbers 67 percent approval, 16 percent disapproval in Quinnipiac's poll a couple of weeks after the president's inauguration.

"The huge numbers he had immediately after the inaugural are coming down to earth," Brown said.