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Cooking the Books

We brought you some info on issue 3, Ohio’s plan to use slot machines to raise money for education. Well looks like they were exaggerating the numbers. In a Plain Dealer article a dude calls Learn and Earn out on their claimed $1 billion a year saying it would actually be $853 million. Personally, I’d take either amount, but that’s just me.

Changing Strategy for the Big Leagues

Congressman Sherrod Brown, who was on the cover of last week’s Free Times as a hopeful for the Dems, and who opposed the Patriot Act and often goes the way of the ACLU, is now voting for the Military Commissons Act, a bill that goes against standards of prisoner treatment set up by the Geneva Convention. The Free Times gets all poli-sci and dishes out the details.

College Influenced This Dude

An ex-Case Dean was convicted of buying coke at a Beachwood hotel. No word yet on where the party is at or how much a cup will cost, but beer pong will be going all night and DJ Bonehead will be spinning Modern Rock and Hip-Hop till’ the break of dawn. I’ll see you there.