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LIGHTING THE FUSE

Sarantou for Recorder How are local media covering

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here are many difficult choices facing Lucas County voters on Nov. 6.

Who should be elected Lucas County Recorder is not one of them.

Republican George Sarantou is the clear choice over Democrat Phil Copeland, and it has nothing to do with party affiliation; it has everything to do with experience, competence and what is best for Lucas County.

The recorder’s office is responsible for indexing and maintaining land records like deeds, liens and mortgages in addition to military records. Voters do not hear much about the office because it has been run smoothly and without controversy by Recorder Jeanine Perry.

Copeland, an at-large councilman since 2005 who decided to run because he will be termed out of City Council at the end of his current tenure, captured 57 percent of the March 6 Democratic primary vote to top James Seaman and Kevin Eff. Copeland did not attend the Feb. 27 recorder candidate forum to tell the public what he would bring to the office. Prior to his primary victory, he told Toledo Free Press, “I want to go and be a part of it and I may have some ideas when I get in there.” recorder posiThomas F. Pounds tionThe is important beyond its modest level of public recognition; Copeland’s vague goals should be a red flag to informed voters. So should his choice to decline a public appearance at the Oct. 23 forum at the Sylvania SARANTOU Branch Library, a nondebate event organized by the League of Women Sojourner’s Truth and Toledo Free Press.

Michael S. miller Voters, Copeland’s pattern of not facing voters is inexcusable and should be one factor in costing him the office.

Sarantou is also an at-large councilman near the end of his term limit.

Sarantou, who works for 212 Capital Group, cited his love of public service and experience.

“For the last 30 years, I’ve been in the financial services and I’ve handled thousands of documents,” he said. He also serves as Council’s financial committee chairman. Sarantou said he would continue the efficiency displayed by Perry and move forward to modernize the office with a focus on security.

Finances and organization are Sarantou’s strengths; he is clearly prepared to take the office and move it forward. The recent Toledo Free Press report that Sarantou has one of Council’s best attendance records, while Copeland has one of its worst, is another compelling reason to believe the office will be in better hands with Sarantou.

Toledo Free Press strongly endorses Sarantou for Lucas County Recorder. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com. Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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was raised to believe that anyone could be president of analysis. Our study guides you through each media outlet’s the United States. Certainly in my lifetime, the ascen- volume of coverage. It is up to you to determine if that covdencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush seemed to erage is fair to your chosen candidate. bolster that theory.

Television stations But with the news that President Barack Obama is nearing $1 billion in campaign The broadcast media were firmly enfunds, with challenger Mitt Romney not trenched in balanced reporting. All three far behind, I wonder how true that oncestations relied on Associated Press reports bedrock American belief is. Would either of for website pieces of any depth (as defined my two sons ever be in a position to access by word count); local reporting was limited $1 billion? By the time they will be old to local candidate visits. enough to run, 30 years from now, $1 billion O WNWO NBC presented 34 Balanced will seem like a quaint little figure. stories, 34 Obama stories and 34 Romney Would I ever want either of my sons to stories, a perfect balance for a total of 102 be president? To experience the rancor, the Michael S. miller stories. A check of the Federal Elections lies and the open hatred many of our politiCommission (FEC) database shows WNWO cians endure?

President/CEO Chris Topf has donated to the National Would I want to open a newspaper every day and see Association of Broadcasters Political Action Committee attacks, lies and attempts to destroy their characters and (PAC), but not to any specific candidate. neutralize any chance they had at effectiveness?

O WTOL/FOX Toledo included 11 Balanced stories, 17 As the election nears, media bias is an ongoing and le- Obama stories and 24 Romney stories, leaning GOP in its gitimate concern. As a working journalist, I pay close at- total of 52 stories. An FEC check shows WTOL General tention to how local media cover politics. The inexorable Manager Bob Chirdon has donated to the Liberty Corporaacrimony that divides so many Americans has become an tion Federal PAC, but not to any specific candidate. accepted element of the discussion; that is clearly seen in O WTVG 13abc offered 8 Balanced stories, 11 Obama the rise of such media outlets as FOX News and MSNBC. stories and 8 Romney stories, leaning slightly Democratic More people seem to gravitate to news sources that present in its total of 27 stories. FEC records do not show that the side they believe in, thus depriving themselves of op- WTVG General Manager John Christianson has donated posing viewpoints and messages. to any specific candidate.

How does this division and side-taking translate to local Adding it all up, Toledo’s TV stations offered 53 balmedia? To investigate, Toledo Free Press commissioned re- anced stories, 62 Obama stories and 66 Romney stories for searcher Mary McCartney to study the LexisNexis database a relatively fair total of 181 stories. and local media websites (The Blade, Toledo Free Press, 13abc, WTOL/FOX and WNWO NBC) to determine whether our Toledo Free Press hometown media have taken sides in Obama vs. Romney.

Although Toledo Free Press is certainly more conservativeOur research studied the period from June 1, 2012 — leaning than The Blade, I was surprised to see the results of the week Romney sewed up the GOP nomination with a our study. Toledo Free Press presented 4 Balanced stories, 5 Texas primary win — through Oct. 3, 2012, just after the Obama stories and 12 Romney stories for a total of 21 articles. first presidential debate. The focus was on which candidate I was surprised because, working with Toledo Free Press Mandominated the reporting of each published or broadcast aging Editor Sarah Ottney and News Editor Brigitta Burks, story — which candidate was discussed in more depth, with we have striven to cover Obama and Romney appearances more words — than his opponent. Each story was deter- equally. Looking at the details, the source of the disparity is mined to fall into one of three categories: Balanced, Obama clear. Opinion pieces by conservative writers Tim Higgins, or Romney. We focused on campaign-specific stories, dis- Thomas Berry, Gary Rathbun and Dock David Treece tip our counting news coverage of Obama’s presidency if the story content way in Romney’s favor. I do not apologize for any of did not invoke the campaign. We included opinion columns our writers’ opinions, but it does help to be aware of the speand analysis pieces alongside news stories, under the belief cifics in the gap in our opinion content. that total presentation of each candidate was important.

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The Hot Corner: What I would ask Obama

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his week’s topic for our pre- obsession with Ayn Rand’s works. To election roundtable: If we put it in its most basic form, there are could talk to President Barack the producers (job creators) and the Obama, what would we say to him? To takers (the 47 percent of the populabe honest, many times in the past three tion Mitt Romney referenced). Most years or so, I’ve wished I could have a of the people who fawn over Rand’s discussion with the president about every word know nothing about her what was happening in Washington, real life. If the Religious Right were and his handling of it. In his zeal to to notice that she had no use for retry to lift the tenor of governance, the ligion and didn’t believe in God, it president bent over backwards to try might not be as enamored with her as Paul Ryan seems to be. to foster bipartisanship in Congress.

My impression is that a more From the start and for the next three and a half years, obstruction was appropriate analogy to the Romney and other GOP camthe name of the game paigns’ beliefs would for the GOP, both in the be Nietzsche’s will to House and the Senate. power and his concept Even with bills that at of a superman. Good one time had wide supis anything that helps port from Republicans him reach his potential and, in many cases, had and Evil is anything even been proposed by that stands in the way Republicans, the obof him doing so. Therestruction was complete. fore, if lying and disIn the words of Don BURNARD torting facts help him Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the No. 1 priority reach the presidency, it is Good, and for the next four years for the GOP if the facts get in the way, they must was to make sure that Obama was a necessarily be Evil.

A number of other GOP candione-term president.

To that end, they blocked any leg- dates and their backers seem to have islation they thought might give the taken this to heart. Romney’s campresident a “victory” and used the paign adviser even said they weren’t filibuster in the Senate more times in going to allow their campaign to be this time period than in all the history run by fact-checkers.

As the Obama campaign got of the filibuster. The wheels of goverinto full gear this summer, it began nance ground to a halt.

Their abhorrence for the man in to push back at the Karl Rove/Koch the White House completely over- Bros./FOX News cabal’s lies and disrode any of the needs of the populace tortions, but it needs some personal in the throes of the worst economic input from the president. The perfect downturn since the Great Depression, opportunity was the first presidenand they fiddled while Rome burned. tial debate. Fact-checkers pointed They refused to confirm many of the out that Romney told 27 lies in 38 appointees the administration needed minutes, and the president did an to address this dire situation, and of- incredibly ineffective job of calling fered no plans of their own to help the him on his constantly changing poAmerican public — commonly re- sitions and outright lying. My next ferred to as the 99 percent. The House talking point would be “Mr. Presicouldn’t even be controlled by John dent, you are an incredibly intelligent and skilled speaker. Will you Boehner, its own speaker.

If I could say something to the use your talents in the next debate president, first it would be to ask to call them on this and not let them him why he didn’t call them on their frame the debate? You are the most atrocious behavior and use his bully powerful man in the world. It’s time pulpit to try to force these so-called to act like it.”

Lastly, I would ask why he chose public servants to do their jobs.

This could very well be the most to tackle health care reform before do-nothing Congress in history. It focusing on jobs. I know that rising is certainly in the top two. Instead of health care costs are one of the most trying to remain above the fray, why costly items for people and corporanot get in their faces and challenge tions, but it would have been better them to do the job they were elected suited to a second-term agenda, to do? Use your pulpit to explain the when it could have been addressed facts to the people, and to point out in an even more effective manner. O the many fallacies the GOP and its Email columnist Don Burnard at big-money backers foisted on us.

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The Blade

Given Blade Publisher and Editorin-Chief John Block’s fairly open endorsement of Obama (remember the 2008 Page One Blade photo of Block giddily reaching to embrace then-candidate Obama?), his 2008 donation to Obama for America and his attendance as one of very few guest list media people at the March 14, 2012 State Dinner for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, combined with his newspaper’s stalwart liberal philosophy, it would not be surprising to see Obama dominate The Blade’s campaign coverage. And the numbers do show a disparity.

During our study, The Blade reported 56 Balanced stories, 86 Obama stories and 62 Romney stories for a total of 204 articles. The total contains some interesting trends by reporters, presumably covering specific beats. Blade reporter Jim Provance has been credited for 8 Balanced stories, 28 Obama stories and 9 Romney stories; reporter Tom Troy has a byline count of 22 Balanced stories, 25 Obama stories and 36 Romney stories. All other Blade writers had numbers relatively evenly divided between the two candidates.

FEC records do not show any candidate donations by John Block during this election cycle. Block Communications Chairman Allan Block has donated to Romney for President Inc. and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He is also a contributor to Republicans Sen. Rob Portman, Rep. Bob Latta and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel, and Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur.

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During our study, The Blade reported 56 Balanced stories, 86 Obama stories and 62 Romney stories for a total of 204 articles. Blade reporter Jim Provance has been credited for 8 Balanced stories, 28 Obama stories and 9 Romney stories; reporter Tom Troy has a byline count of 22 Balanced stories, 25 Obama stories and 36 Romney stories.”

WSPD 1370 AM

In tracking WSPD (disclosure: I host a pop culture radio show for WSPD, for no compensation), which features a conservative lineup led by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and local hosts Brian Wilson and Fred LeFebvre, one interesting trend emerges. Obviously, the station mentions Obama and

Romney with a frequency too great to count during the course of four months.

FEC records do not list any donations from General Manager Andy Stuart.

But WSPD is the only local news source that consistently covers Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. Johnson has been a guest on the station’s local shows and his platform has been regularly discussed in-depth on its airwaves.

To contrast, Toledo Free Press has mentioned Johnson once during the study period. Another review of The Blade for the four-plus months examined showed only three mentions of the Libertarian candidate. Two of those mentions were in passing; one article reported on the visit to Toledo by his vice presidential candidate, Jim Gray, and the main theme of the story was the candidate’s position on samesex marriage. A study of local television websites shows a number of Associated Press articles.

Summation

Across all media reporting in Toledo, it appears the press tends to slightly lean in favor of the president, with an attempt at balanced reporting across all the organizations. There were 406 stories total: 113 Balanced, 153 Obama and 140 Romney. So while national media may clearly be divided by bias, at least locally, in this study, we can be pleased to have a relatively balanced media.

Unless you’re a Gary Johnson fan. O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@ toledofreepress.com.

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CHILDREN OF LIBERTY: What I would ask Obama

The end of the romance

By Liz Cope and Anna Allegrini CHildren of Liberty

A conservative’s dream: the chance to finally tell Barack Obama some of the things I’d like to get off my chest. Certainly, we’ll never be invited to have a beer at the White House after this, but for what it’s worth, we’re asking him to hear us out.

We won’t use a teleprompter — this comes scripted from the heart.

Mr. President, when you ran in 2008 on “hope and change,” you struck a chord nationwide. In you, Americans saw a unifier, a bridge builder, a mold breaker. Americans saw old stereotypes fall away when a black man, a son of a single mother, a potential statistic, became president of the greatest nation in the world. You were portrayed as America’s perfect boyfriend, but now we wish we’d never dated.

You promised “transparency” yet we are still trying to uncover the facts about Obamacare. You promised an economic recovery, yet America struggles with high unemployment and a shrinking labor force. More than 46 million Americans are on food stamps and the poverty rate is above 15 percent. You promised to cut the deficit in half during

your first term, yet each child born today will instead inherit more than $150,000 in debt, and college grads face joblessness. You told us you inherited a “mess,” yet it is a mess you helped create, given that Democrats won control of Congress in January 2007. Those same Democrats, including you, must take their “fair share” of responsibility for voting in the stimulus and budgets during fiscal years 2008 and 2009. You’ve left us with a big bill for your dinner.

We now see that the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America,” of which you spoke on Feb. 19, 2008, is actually the end for our beloved country. Only a man who believes that our Constitution is a “charter of negative liberties” could call for such transformation — a transformation that would focus not on what the state and federal government “can’t do to you” but rather “what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.” Conservatives are not interested in fundamentally transforming America. Conservatives are perfectly content to build businesses and make decisions independently, and would appreciate it if government would just stay out of the way.

Only a leader with a certain disdain for our intelligence would celebrate a serious tax hike

on the middle class and call it an improvement to our health care system. Of course, to you, Obamacare is “not a tax”, though the Supreme Court ruled it to be so.

Only a leader with a certain disdain for the Constitution would mandate religious institutions to offer health care options that are against their morals and conscience. Mr. President, abortion is not health care, particularly partial-birth abortions, which you support. In your stance, you are completely out of step with 75 percent of Americans who do not support using taxpayer funds for any abortion procedure.

And Mr. President, as much as you attack others regarding their integrity, your character is lacking. For example, in 2007 you gave an intense speech at Hampton University in Virginia accusing the Bush administration of not waiving Stafford Act requirements for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. You implied it was racially motivated, that New Orleans wasn’t considered “part of the American family,” like Florida or New York. Yet upon investigation it was uncovered that you, Mr. President, were one of the 14 senators who actually voted against the bill waiving the Stafford Act for New Orleans and have also refused to waive it fol-

lowing Hurricane Isaac. You say that conservatives are “waging a war on women,” yet your own campaign underpays female staff.

You swore that the murder of Christopher Stevens, our ambassador in Libya, was due to an anti-Muslim Internet video, yet it now comes to light that your administration knew it was a terrorist attack all along. Your campaign has ruthlessly accused your opponent of murder, being a felon and evading taxes — all of which are horrible falsehoods and completely unpresidential.

So here we are, hopefully at the end of our romance. You have proven to be quite oversold. Your charming persona has turned out to be hype. We don’t even know if we like you anymore. You’ve tried to make us buy things we didn’t want and you’ve not taken responsibility for your mistakes. And let’s not even discuss our “lady parts,” thank you very much.

How rude! And now, worst of all are all the bills you’ve left us with. We are not better off than we were four years ago and our credit cards are maxed, all thanks to you. Are you even listening? We don’t think you are ... We feel like w’ere talking to an empty chair. O

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The libertarian perspecTive: What I would ask Obama

By Kenneth Sharp

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won’t get the chance to directly address the president with my questions, but both campaigns will spend a great deal of time in Ohio between now and the election, so maybe a staffer will see this and pass it on.

Mr. President, in your victory speech of November 2008 you said, “I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help, and I will be your president too.” America is still divided.

Partisanship is grinding the ability to govern to a halt, and some are thankful for that.

Within the federal government, as a Libertarian, I can nearly agree.

Yet in the larger American landscape two grassroots movements emerged in your first term.

Both were eventually overtaken in large degree by the two major parties, but before that time, you clearly endorsed one over the other.

You clearly voiced your solidarity

with the Occupy movement, but not The Tea Party movement. The Occupy movement’s primary concern was crony capitalism whereas the Tea Party was concerned with taxes. Crony capitalism is a major concern, but as you have stated, so are taxes.

Why did you not support this effort as well? Why did you not hear so many voices?

In your State of the Union address, January 2011, you said, “In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code,” almost identical to Tea Party concerns. Instead, you and your Republican opponent call for more obtuse regulations.

Languishing in Congress is a Fair Tax bill, supported by the Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, that would eliminate the convoluted and divisive rules. It would first eliminate the income tax and replace it with a national sales tax. It is the most studied tax plan

in U.S. history and is given high marks for transparency and fairness. Nearly all agree it would bring back jobs from foreign nations and boost the economy. It is bipartisan in support, something you claim to want. It has its libertarian detractors. It is revenue neutral, meaning it would still raise enough to fund all current programs. Not something most libertarians want; also it is still a tax, something many libertarians dislike.

The Fair Tax offers a huge advantage to the Occupy folk as well. It eliminates corporate taxes, they pay in the same manner individuals would, but there would be less need for lobbyists. Corporations would have less incentive to cozy up to Congress in an effort to create rules in their favor or against the competition.

Tax compliance costs the American economy tens of billions of dollars a year. Money that could have gone to growing the economy is wasted on taxes. That would end.

Those should all be positives, yet

you and your major opponent still go down the old divisive road. Why will you not fight for the Fair Tax? Is it because all politicians use taxes as an election tool to hold over the citizens? Or, is it you haven’t been made aware?

If it is the latter, please see www.fairtax.org or www.gary johnson2012.com for guidance.

As a freshman senator, in 2006, you said, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” After you were elected president, you explained that it is different when you are a senator than when you are the president.

Did the dire consequences of an escalating national debt magically disappear because you went from representing just the people of Illinois to representing the entire United States?

If the immense debt was a concern in 2006, isn’t the even larger debt a concern now? If it signaled a leadership failure then does it not

signal the same today? Your plan, like Romney’s, pushes the can down the road but does little or nothing to tackle the hard truth. We spend and borrow too much.

Gov. Johnson has gone public with his plans that would reduce the budget 43 percent the first year and bring it under control (www.ontheissues.org/2012/Gary_Johnson_ Budget_+_Economy.htm).

The deficit affects us now and our posterity. It is the greatest threat to our sovereignty and security.

Why have you failed in this key leadership role?

I had hoped to get into the issues on immigration, education, health care and many others, but my time is cut short.

If, Mr. President, you wish to hear them I can be reached at the email below. I will not try to make a career from it; it hasn’t seemed to work too well for Joe the Plumber. O Email Kenneth Sharp at letters@ toledofreepress.com.

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ELECTION 2012

By Brigitta Burks

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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan talked to a crowd about his ticket’s plans for foreign policy, the economy and energy independence in the chilly Grand Aire hangar at Toledo Express Airport on Oct. 8.

“This is not an ordinary election.

We’re not just deciding who’s going to be the next president for four more years. We are deciding the meaning of America. We are deciding what kind of people we are going to be and what kind of country we are going to have for an entire generation,” said the U.S. representative from Wisconsin.

“When President Obama came in four years ago, he inherited a tough situation, no two ways about that.

Problem is, he didn’t make things better,” Ryan said.

Like his running mate former Gov. Mitt Romney did in Virginia the same day, Ryan called for a change in foreign policy, specifically citing the recent killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.

“If you go home after this and turn on your TV, you will likely see the failures of the Obama foreign policy unfolding before our eyes. If you look around the world, what we are witnessing is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy,” Ryan said.

“Four Americans were murdered in a terror attack in Benghazi. The point is, in a Romney administration, when we know we are clearly attacked by terrorists, we won’t be afraid to say what it is,” Ryan said.

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“The Middle East is in turmoil.

Nearly two dozen nations we witness on our television screen are burning our flags in protest and riots. If we project weakness abroad, our adversaries are that much more willing to test us, to question our resolve.”

Ryan said Obama’s possible defense cuts would strain the National Guard and Reserves even further.

Europe’s economy served as a warning many times in Ryan’s speech.

“You see in Europe, they waited too long. They kicked the can down the road. They came up with excuses,” Ryan said. He added that youth employment in Europe is at 20 percent and 50 percent in Greece and Spain.

Ryan also said more than 50 percent of recent American college graduates aren’t working or can’t find jobs in their chosen fields.

Romney has the leadership skills for job creation, Ryan stressed.

“The president has no new ideas.

He doesn’t know how to grow this economy. Mitt Romney knows how to grow the economy because Mitt Romney has the experience because he knows how to create jobs because he’s done it before,” said Ryan, later citing Romney’s experience in business and overseeing the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

The nominee also focused on the importance of small businesses, tax rates and creating jobs through pursuing energy independence.

“You see when we lower tax rates across the board, by closing loopholes primarily for the well-to-do, all

Ike Parker, a minister from Delta, said that part of the rally spoke to him.

“I don’t like the things that Obama approves of, like abortion, gay marriage, pills for 14-year-old kids,” he said.

Parker said he had been a lifelong Democrat before Obama.

“I just hope that people will wake up and come to their senses [to] the way this country is going and the way Obama has driven it down the road,” he said.

Eventgoer Rita Gilbert of West Toledo said this is the first rally she has ever attended.

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Paul Ryan said Mitt Romney has the leadership skills for job creation.

we can really believe in,” she said.

Rita’s husband, Ron, who used to work for Marathon Oil, said he was interested in Romney’s and Ryan’s thoughts on energy and thinks the country should look more into coal energy.

“We have enough coal in Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana to produce energy for the whole United States for the next 200 years,” Ron said. “[The government’s] looking in the wrong direction, they really are. We could be totally energy independent.”

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that we are saying is, ‘It’s your money in the first place, you keep more of it’,” Ryan said.

On the first day of a Romney/ Ryan presidency, Ryan vowed to approve the Keystone Pipeline. This idea received a standing ovation from the crowd.

Ryan also said the ticket’s energy plan would make America energy independent by the end of the decade.

He added, “We will send less of our money to countries that don’t like us.

That’s a good idea.”

Ryan also emphasized God and religious freedom and their ties to the United States in his speech. “[America’s] the only country founded on an idea,” he said. “That idea is so precious, Thomas Jefferson wrote it in the Declaration of Independence … our rights come from nature and nature’s God, not from government.”

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bara Sears and Randy Gardner spoke before the vice presidential nominee. Each drove home the need for Romney supporters to be vocal and go door to door.

Latta also praised Ryan’s financial know-how.

“There’s not one person in Washington or I don’t think in this country that understands the federal budget and what’s happening to this country better than the next vice president,” Latta said.

Democratic response

During the Ryan rally, the Obama for America campaign had its own event. Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz was at the airport Oct. 8 with a small group of Obama supporters and focused mostly on the president’s auto industry rescue.

“We’re glad Paul Ryan came to Northwest Ohio, but we’re disappointed he does not support the auto rescue plan which saved our local economy and we’re disappointed he has embraced the policies of Mitt Romney, which, if they were implemented, would have sent certainly this region if not the country into a depression,” Kapszukiewicz said.

He added, “We are better off today than we were four years ago. Four years ago when the president took office, unemployment was well above 8 percent. Today it’s 7.8 percent, the lowest it’s been in over four years. In Lucas County, unemployment has gone from 8.5 percent to 7.6 percent.

When Obama became president this economy was losing 800,000 jobs per month, every month. Now we’re gaining 150,000 jobs per month, every month.” O Toledo Free Press Managing Editor Sarah Ottney contributed to this report.

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CULTURE

UT banned books event celebrates freedom

By Brigitta Burks

Toledo Free Press News Editor bburks@toledofreepress.com

The University of Toledo is celebrating the freedom to read with its 15th annual Banned Books Week Vigil on Oct. 18 and 19. The American Library Association (ALA) helped start Banned Books Week 30 years ago. The national week was Sept. 30-Oct. 6.

Paulette Kilmer, a UT professor of communications, started UT’s version 15 years ago after observing another banned books event put on by the American Civil Liberties Union. The event started out small but last year, about 350 people attended. “[The vigil] has really just grown.

We have been really fortunate and a lot of people help us and see the value in us, so it’s very much a community endeavor,” Kilmer said.

On Oct. 18, several volunteer speakers will discuss topics of their choosing at the free event on the third floor of Sullivan Hall. This year, UT’s banned books week event was expanded to include two days of activities. From 7-9 p.m. Oct. 19, Alan Kitty, a Mark Twain impersonator, will present on the author in Libbey Hall. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $25 for two people, $100 for a table of eight and $7.50 for students. To purchase, visit www.utoledo.edu/boxoffice or call (419) 530-2375. The Ohio Humanities

Council helped sponsor this new event.

Twain’s book “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the most banned books ever, according to the ALA. The book was written for adults, not children, Kilmer said.

“It’s a very early and serious consideration of racism,” she said.

“When [Twain] wrote it, he was making all kinds of statements about the injustice of racism.”

Kilmer is passionate about the event’s theme, “Celebrate the Freedom to Read.”

“We don’t all have to agree on what’s great literature or not. What we need to do is keep an open mind,” she said.

Glenn Sheldon, the honors professor for humanities at UT and member of the event’s planning committee, agreed. Reading is a way to learn about things that may be different from our own viewpoints, he said.

“If our viewpoints are not challenged, then we are not ever learning about ourselves and the world that we live in,” he said.

There are many reasons books are banned, Kilmer and Sheldon said.

Kilmer said, “It takes one person, and often that person hasn’t read the book, to get a challenge going or to stir up a community, to even ban a book.”

Most books are banned for kindergarten through 12th-grade students, Sheldon said. These books often deal with topics like domestic violence,

rape and homosexuality.

“These are the issues students in K-12 are always dealing with and words and representations of how you survive those experiences put in someone else’s word, for me, are a basic survival technique,” he said.

Some of the books that were banned, restricted or challenged by schools from May 2011-12 include “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote, “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

by Stephen Chbosky, “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, “Beloved” by Toni Morrison and “SlaughterhouseFive” by Kurt Vonnegut.

Event sponsors include several UT affiliates, massage therapist Ann Lumbrezer, Barry Bagels, Dunkin’ Donuts, Kroger, New Sins Press, Phoenicia Cuisine and Toledo Free Press. Snacks will be provided throughout the first day of the vigil. There will be a cash bar and light refreshments at “An Evening with Mark Twain.”

The schedule is below: O 9 a.m.: “Celebrating Reading: Selections from ‘The Princess Bride’”—The UT Writer’s Guild O 9:30 a.m.: “In the name of Democracy: Resurgence of Censorship in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe” — Arjun Sabharwal, Canaday Center O 10 a.m.: “From ‘Lucy’ to ‘2 Broke Girls’: TV and Its Cultural Impact,”— David Tucker, UT communications

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O 10:30 a.m.: “Google Bombs, SEO and Censorship”— Paul Many, UT communications department O 11 a.m.: “The War on Women ... as Old as History”— Warren Woodbury, Toledo author O 11:30 a.m.: “Prison Education: What is the Point?”— Renee Heberle, UT political science department O Noon: Keynote address: “My Favorite Book” — Bill McMillen, UT assistant to the president O 1 p.m.: “Inequality and Democracy”— Carter Wilson, UT political science department O 1:30 p.m.: “Book Burning in Nazi Germany”— Larry Wilcox and Justin Pfeifer, UT history department O 2 p.m.: “Grey Matter” — Ben Pryor, vice provost for Academic Program Development

O 2:30 p.m.: “Jeopardy!”— Vincent D. Scebbi, editor in chief at The Independent Collegian O 3 p.m.: “Avoiding the Echo Chamber: The Benefit of Dissenting Opinion” — Sarah Ottney, Toledo Free Press managing editor O 3:30 p.m.: “Thomas Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”— Tom Barden, dean of UT Honors College O 4 p.m.: “Babes in Pornland: The New Pornography Industry”— Sharon Barnes, UT women’s and gender studies department O 4:30 p.m. “Debased Ditties and Songs that Suffered Censorship” — Ed Lingan, UT theatre and film department and Risa Cohen, music specialist For more information, visit www. ala.org/bbooks. O

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Meetings teach Bible-based leadership skills

By David Yonke

EDITOR, ToledoFAVS.COM David.Yonke@ReligionNews.com

Seeking to build on the momentum generated by the 2012 Global Leadership Summit, a group of Toledoans headed by ProMedica President and CEO Randy Oostra is hosting monthly meetings to teach Bible-based leadership skills.

“I’ve been helping with the Leadership Summit for about seven years and I can’t tell you how many people say that after a OOSTRA few months they forget the lessons learned and start to lose touch with the stuff we heard at the summit,” said Ben Snyder, pastor of CedarCreek Church’s South Toledo campus.

The church, at 2150 S. Byrne Road, will host the second local Lead On session from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 15.

Nearly 1,200 people in the Toledo

area paid up to $190 each to watch satellite broadcasts of the global summit when it was held at Willow Creek Church near Chicago from Aug. 9-10. A total of 160,000 people viewed the summit live and in delayed overseas broadcasts.

The annual event features elite speakers from the political, corporate and religious worlds who offer lessons on leadership development.

The motivation behind the summits, according to Willow Creek’s senior pastor Bill Hybels, is that “everybody benefits when leaders get better.”

Among the notables who have spoken at the sessions are Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Bono, Jim Collins and Chuck Colson.

The yearlong gap between the summits inspired a local contingent of Christian leaders to supplement the lessons with monthly meetings.

“It was a group idea,” Snyder said.

“And when Tom Martin (pastor of CedarCreek’s Perrysburg campus)

talked to Randy Oostra about Lead On, Randy got excited about the idea and said he would help us get it off the ground.”

The first local Lead On session was held in August with nearly 100 people attending, Snyder said.

Patrick C. Hickey, superintendent of Washington Local Schools, also spoke at last month’s Lead On meeting.

Jim Lange, president of the local chapter of Truth@Work, said the monthly gatherings fill a vital need in the Toledo community.

“We have talked for years about what we can do between summits to really foster that yearning for leadership and leadership development that’s out there,” Lange said.

“The health of an organization is going to be much stronger if we have healthy leadership.”

The September meeting drew leaders from Toledo’s diverse Christian community, according to Lange.

“It does a lot for unity in the body of Christ as well as help people develop their leadership skills,” he said.

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The health of an organization is going to be much stronger if we have healthy leadership.”

— Jim Lange, President, Truth@Work Snyder said the Lead On lectures “present a framework for leadership based on biblical principles, using biblical passages that teach us how to be better leaders.”

Unlike most church-based conferences, he said, the goal of both the Global Leadership Summit and Lead On is to apply the lessons in the secular realm as well as in religious organizations.

“Having Randy Oostra, the CEO of a medical institute in Toledo, doing the teaching means he is talking about it from a business perspective, not

a pastor’s perspective,” Snyder said.

“When other business leaders look at it, they know Randy is a great leader and they want to learn from him.”

At the same time, speakers cite Bible verses and apply biblical perspectives to developing leaders.

“If you’re opposed to the Bible or if somebody can’t get past that, it might be a struggle,” Snyder said. “But we think you can learn leadership anywhere. As a Christ follower, I want to learn from people of other faiths because I want to learn to be a better leader.”

The local Lead On sessions are free and open to the public, but those interested in attending are asked to RSVP by sending an email to Kyle Brossia at KyleB@CedarCreek.tv or call the CedarCreek office at (419) 661-8661.

The November Lead On session is scheduled for Nov. 12. O David Yonke is the editor and community manager of Toledo Faith & Values (ToledoFAVS.com), a website that provides in-depth, nonsectarian news coverage of religion, faith and spirituality in the Toledo area.

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Muslim convert believes arson was ‘cry for knowledge’

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Toledo woman who worships at the Perrysburg mosque isn’t who you might expect to see huddling under the tent to pray.

But her fair skin actually doesn’t matter because her husband, Wesam, and the Muslim community he grew up in, are as welcoming as Brandi Islam professes to be.

“I didn’t convert until three and a half years after we were married and I was pregnant with our first child,” said Lisa Hawary, who previously worshipped in a Presbyterian church. “This is the most open-minded, broadbased humanitarian religion I could see myself raising my children in. You learn about religion from the beginning of time. It isn’t about just

being a Muslim; it is being a well-rounded person.”

Hawary said worshipping in a tent outside the mosque since last month’s arson has been uplifting. She is surrounded by many cultures and voices.

Still, she said it is upsetting that an Indiana man allegedly set fire to the mosque’s prayer room, intentionally.

BARHITE “It hurts your heart,” she said.

“When you are in prayer with God, it is a personal moment and a loving moment in the day. You want that space back; you want that time back.”

Many people don’t understand what Islam’s philosophy entails.

“I couldn’t grasp having that much animosity and hate in my heart. It is a huge cry for help. It is

a cry for knowledge. It is cry for understanding.

It is a cry for love,” she said. “If this happened at a temple, a synagogue or at CedarCreek, I would say the same thing. That person is searching for love and understanding.”

Hawary was interested in Islam even before meeting her husband, whose family is from Lebanon.

“I was learning about Islam before meeting him. I was going from church to church and not finding what I was looking for. I was left struggling with concepts I didn’t understand.”

Her husband and mosque members answered her questions and gave her material to read. Even when Hawary was fairly certain she wanted to convert, they advised her to wait.

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She wasn’t even Muslim when she was married in the mosque, but the imam (leader in the church) was open-minded and wanted to get to know her spiritually. He told her marriage is a partnership and she has the right to stand up to her husband.

Hawary said she didn’t change her first name as customary when converting to Islam, and she doesn’t wear a hijab.

Once a classmate asked one of her three children, “Why isn’t your mom wearing one of those black things?”

The response showed what Islam is about.

“She doesn’t have to wear one. It is her choice.” O Email questions or comments to Toledo Free Press Community Ombudsman Brandi Barhite at bbarhite@toledofree press.com.

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A new exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) drew from more than 30 public and private collections worldwide to comprise the first exhibit focused on the portraiture of 19th century French painter Édouard Manet.

“Manet: Portraying Life” opened Oct. 7 and runs through Jan. 1. Toledo is the only American venue for the exhibition.

After TMA, the works will be exhibited at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.

“This exhibit has been a long time in the making,” said TMA Director Brian Kennedy. “This is an important examination of a very important artist.”

Often credited as “the father of modernity,” Manet’s style inspired many well-known Impressionists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

“A lot has to do with what he put in and what he left out,” Kennedy said, referencing “The Railway,” Manet’s painting of a girl looking at a train. The train is not in the painting, only steam from its engine. “In the way Manet en-

capsulates his period, we have a window into the birth of our modernity.”

Manet was born in 1832, just as daguerreotype photography was being developed, said co-curator Lawrence Nichols, TMA’s senior curator of European and American painting and sculpture before 1900.

He painted straight portraits, which depict the physical appearance of an individual, as well as genre scenes, in which subjects became actors in representations of contemporary life in 19th century Paris.

“Manet painted his family, friends and literary, political and artistic figures of his day, often in casual settings rather than traditionally posed portraits,” according to a news release. “His subjects come to life on canvas, making the viewer curious to know more about these people and their lives.”

His portraits are representations of love, the Industrial Revolution, social unrest, war and more, Nichols said.

“He was depicting his day and he was also responding to photography, which was new,” Nichols said. “He was living in an age in which the reproduction and representation of faces was expanding

exponentially with photography.”

Nichols hopes Manet’s works prompt viewers to contemplate their conception of self, something especially relevant in today’s social mediasaturated culture, he said.

“It is very much about 2012 and what it means to conceive of yourself and what it means to be perceived by others,” Nichols said. “How many times do we pull out our own cameras and take pictures of family and friends or have our picture taken?”

The exhibit includes 34 oils and five pastels by Manet, Nichols said. There are also photographs, prints and books.

The pieces are on loan from museums in Europe, North America and Japan. “Édouard Manet is one of the major artists in Western European painting tradition. Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt — Manet ranks among these, absolutely. This excites the daylights out of me,” Nichols said.

“This is a very wonderful opportunity. There will definitely be no other chance to see this number of Manets in Toledo in the very near future. It’s not exhaustive, but we have some of the absolute greatest [of his portraits].

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For more information, call (419) 255-8000 or visit toledomuseum.org. O

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Then All-Mid-American running back Adonis Thomas broke his arm and missed a trio of games.

Fellow all-conference honoree, linebacker Dan Molls, spent time on the sideline with Thomas, missing half of the 12-game season after injuring his leg during practice in early September.

Things only got worse for the Rockets when AllMAC defensive end T.J. Fatinikun’s season ended Oct. 8, 2011, due to an elbow injury he suffered against Eastern Michigan.

But not even the injuries Toledo was forced to combat in 2011 could have prepared them for being

without three of four starting defensive linemen this season. Yet so far, the Toledo defense has not skipped a beat. For Molls, the nation’s leader in total tackles (71), the reason is simple.

“A lot of guys are just seizing their opportunity,” Molls said. “We lost some great players, but we have just as many good players hungry to go make a play.

Guys are really stepping up.”

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The depth at end has been tested so greatly that former three-star recruit Allen Covington was thrust into service for the first time last week. The true freshman did not record a tackle, but Jayrone Elliott, among other teammates, believes Covington can make a considerable impact as the season rolls on.

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TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

When 104-year-old Stella Bailey died Oct. 9, she was exactly where she wanted to be — at her Rossford home of 90 years, with her husband and family close by.

“She didn’t suffer none. That’s the good part,” said 96-year-old Jay Bailey, Stella’s husband of 60 years.

Family members had visited just before she died, Jay said.

“She was laughing and joking with the little baby,” he said. “She lived a ripe old age.”

Stella was able to remain at home with the help of PASSPORT, a state Medicaid waiver program funded through the Ohio Department of Aging and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The program, administered in Northwest Ohio by the Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio (AOoA), links Medicaid-eligible seniors with long-term care services, such as home health aides, home-delivered meals, medical equipment, medical transportation, adult day care and more.

PASSPORT services usually supplement care provided by family members, said Pam Wilson, AOoA’s vice president of long-term care.

“Many of the people we serve do have families who are dedicated to keeping them at home and are actively participating and assisting with the care,” Wilson said. “Our services wrap around that family unit and provide support in places where the family may be struggling.”

Stella started using PASSPORT in 2003. Home health aides assisted Jay in caring for Stella seven hours a day, seven days a week.

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“It’s often where they’ve lived for many years and a place where they are comfortable and want to stay,” Wilson said. “Being in the home lets you feel more a part of your family and a part of your community. It’s just that familiarity. Every time someone makes a physical move, it’s disruptive to the person, it’s disruptive to their health.

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“A lot of times it’s stressful on the caregiver to make those regular trips to the nursing home when they want to go every day and stay for hours,” she said.

WILSON PA S S P O RT services are also cheaper than a nursing home, saving taxpayers money, said Justin Moor, AOoA’s vice president of planning and program development. A year of nursing home care in Ohio costs about $62,000 on average, whereas a year of PASSPORT services costs about $21,000, Moor said.

“PASSPORT is about a third of the cost to taxpayers, so for each senior that gets their care through PASSPORT, the savings to taxpayers is

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When PASSPORT started in July 1990, about 90 percent of Medicaid dollars for long-term care went to nursing homes and 10 percent to home care services. Today, it’s closer to 60-40, Moor said.

“It’s working well. It’s been growing every year,” Wilson said. “We do feel it’s one of those cost-saving options to help with state budget issues.”

About 2,800 Northwest Ohioans participated in PASSPORT in 2011 and the program has served more than 20,000 Northwest Ohioans since 1990, Wilson said. Statewide, more than 31,000 Ohio seniors participate in PASSPORT each year.

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When Cleveland-based KeyCorp made Beth Mooney its new CEO in 2011, the Michigan native became the first — and so far only — female CEO of a Top 20 American bank.

“When I got that job it was clearly a headline because I was the first female in an industry that has been dominated by men, so it was a big deal,” Mooney, 57, told Toledo Free Press during a recent visit to the Toledo area, where KeyCorp operates 22 KeyBank branches. “It would be a great statement if, when I retire, the fact that I was the first female is a footnote, not the headline.

“It’s a tremendous opportunity, but also, in the best sense of the word, a tremendous obligation to be the first female CEO,” Mooney said. “I take that very seriously. I want to do this well because it reflects on women in our industry and it will make it easier for the next woman to have this opportunity. I think about that every day.

And perhaps if I work a little harder, it’s not to prove myself [to men], but to make sure it’s a good example for others to follow.”

Secretary to CEO

While in Toledo, Mooney met with a group of female KeyBank employees, sharing with them her personal journey “from secretary to the corner office” and reflecting on how much the workplace has changed in only one generation.

“I graduated from the University of Texas — Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude — and as I went looking for jobs, people asked me if I could type,” Mooney said. “I would like to believe that doesn’t happen anymore.

While there are always still challenges for people as they build their careers, it has become a totally different world and, I believe, a fundamentally fair world within 30 years.”

After college, Mooney worked as bank secretary until she was able to

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persuade a reluctant Dallas bank manager to place her in his management training program.

“Actually I refused to leave his office until he hired me,” Mooney said. “Most places wouldn’t even let me pass go. In that day, at least in Texas, there weren’t a lot of women in the training programs. I was in his office for three hours. I begged, I bullied, I just wasn’t going to go home without a job.”

When he finally agreed, Mooney looked him in the eye and said, “You will never regret it.” She entered the training program, enrolling in night school at Southern Methodist University to earn her MBA. “I’ve been told I’m relentless from time to time,” Mooney added. “I guess that three hours was the beginning.”

Years later, Mooney looked him up and thanked him.

“We reminisced. He said he indeed remembers me,” Mooney said, laughing. He told her he thought he would “send her packing” within five minutes, but her persistence eventually convinced him to give her a chance.

“Your story in life is always shaped by the people who give you opportunities and then the other half of the story is what you do with them,” Mooney said. “I’ve always been grateful I got a chance to tell him what an opportunity he gave me.”

Mooney was recently ranked No. 49 on Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful women in business, one spot in front of Oprah Winfrey. Last year, she was ranked No. 96 on Forbes’ list of the 100 most powerful women.

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trict and a University of Toledo graduate, said Mooney is a natural leader.

“Beth can analyze situations and see solutions clearly and quickly,” Hoffman said. “She’s got a great staying power around things that need to get done.”

Mooney’s leadership at the helm helped KeyCorp weather the economic recession.

“I’m very proud of the decisions our company made and how we are positioned at this point in time,” Mooney said. “Our future is bright.”

KeyBank has been profitable for nine quarters, Mooney said, and was one of five large U.S. banks and the only large bank operating in Northwest Ohio to earn a five-star rating from BauerFinancial, which rates the financial strength and stability of financial institutions each quarter. n KEYBANK CONTINUES ON A23

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arlier this year I tried to bet 1370 WSPD’s Brian Wilson a dollar that the unemployment rate would be below 8 percent by November because no president has been re-elected with unemployment over 8 percent. Brian, being the student he is of politics and economics, wouldn’t take the bet.

This past week, the government came out with the unemployment rate for the month of September.

The number surprised most people, coming in at 7.8 percent compared to 8.1 percent for August. I should be a dollar richer now.

Now, I don’t normally lean very strongly toward conspiracy theories because I’m not sure you could get two bureaucrats to agree that it is daylight outside, let alone agree to cook a large set of numbers with many people involved and publish the results. That being said, there is something fishy about these numbers. Even by the most liberal standards of the mathematically inept, the sum simply doesn’t add up.

Let’s take a look at some of the data surrounding the conclusion.

O A survey of 50,000 households is used to determine the rate.

O 78.8 percent of the 2.184 million household jobs created this year happened in the months of January and September.

O September’s number was 873,000, of which exactly 66 percent were part-time for “economic reasons.”

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O The Obama administration announced that 114,000 jobs were created last month.

O The U-6 number was unchanged at 14.7 percent.

O The sampling error for U-6 is plus or minus 100,000 jobs.

O The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) had new software installed in August to seasonally adjust the numbers.

O The labor force shrank by 2.648 million year over year in September.

O The age 20-24 sector had a September positive increase of 310,000, seasonally adjusted to 380,000, for the first time in history. Until 2012, this has always been a negative number.

Does all of this add up to a conspiracy to get President Obama reelected? I don’t know. I doubt it. But it does add up to a series of changes in how the numbers are put together that make it possible to skew the results.

They just don’t add up. The BLS publishes the numbers used to determine the U-3, and yet they must be using different numbers. The size of the labor force grew by 418,000 in September. In 2009 the labor force was about 160 million people, today it is about 155 million.

As Mitt Romney stated, “If the same share of people were participating in the workforce today as on the day the president got elected, our unemployment rate would be around 11 percent.”

If you start to count all of the people who are “permanently discouraged workers” we reach a rate of close to 24 percent!

So to sum up, the U-3 number is 7.8 percent, the U-6 number is 14.7 percent and the total number of all of the above plus the permanently discouraged is 24 percent.

Recently, it also came out that a couple of the economists and the BLS both contributed to President Obama.

I don’t give this any thought because 1) they can contribute to whomever they want, 2) it would take a lot more than two people to manipulate all of this data

and 3) I am sure there are economists out there who probably contributed to the Romney campaign as well.

Finally, why am I talking about all of this and what does it have to do with how you invest your money and plan for the future? The most important aspect of this is to not let numbers and headlines such as these influence your decisions without digging deeper into the reports and the numbers. I know that not many people are math geeks but it doesn’t take

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n KEYBANK CONTINUED FROM A21 “Our lending this year is up 75 percent over last year — and it’s in consumer lending, small business lending, commercial banking — so it’s very broad,” Hoffman said. “We think that’s the role of a bank, to recycle dollars and help this economy get on its feet, which leads to jobs, which leads to prosperity for everyone.”

Community focus

KeyBank is committed to community banking, Hoffman said.

“Key is one of the few large banks that decentralizes and pushes the decision-making for hiring, staffing, loan decision-making and anything to do with the customer down to the local level,” Hoffman said. “It allows us to better understand the customers’ needs and make the decisions that serve those needs best. Very few large banks do that. Key is very different and we think that difference is so noticeable.”

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It is important that readers realize that this piece is not intended to be political speech that favors one camp over another. When managing money, we have to look at the facts that are presented and develop an analysis based off of those facts. We wanted to take real-life examples of businesses and high-net worth individuals responding to high-tax, high regulation policies.

The fact is that the current administration has pushed for higher taxes on businesses, middle-class Americans without health insurance (The Huffington Post reports that nearly 6 million Americans will face a new tax penalty under the health care legislation) and high net worth individuals all while pushing for more costly regulation, i.e., the Affordable Care Act and regulations from the EPA. The Telegraph reports that amid fears of income taxes in France spiking up to 75 percent, the mega-wealthy have fled the country. According to the head of Sotheby’s Realty in France, “a large number of wealthy French families are leaving the country as a direct result of the proposals of the

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Las Vegas resort tycoon Steve Wynn recently said in an interview that he is holding off on a project that could create 10,000 regular jobs and another 25,000 indirect jobs because he is “afraid of the President. I have no idea what goofy idea, what crazy, antibusiness program this administration will come up …

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Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden and Red Lobster, has started hiring workers to only 28hour weeks in order to lower health care costs. The Affordable Care Act states that companies with employees working more than 30 hours a week must be provided health insurance or face fines of up to $3,000 per employee.

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Sixpence None the Richer to play Hollywood Casino the record out and touring again; it’s really been a lot of fun, very gratifying.”

Sixpence None the Richer — Nash, Slocum, drummer Rob Mitchell and bassist Justin Cary — will play a free show Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. in the Hollywood Casino Toledo H Lounge.

“I hear a handful of our songs

when I’m getting gas or at the grocery store; T.J.Maxx is another good place to hear Sixpence,” Nash said and laughed. “I’m glad that we still have some visibility in that way, and hopefully people will remember us enough to give us a chance to play some more music for them, new stuff.” O

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Sixpence None the Richer fires up “My Dear Machine” to start its new disc, “Lost in Transition.” It’s a familiar ride filled with sparkling pop and Leigh Nash’s pristine vocals. “ [ Gu it a r i s t Matt Slocum] wrote the song not really about a specific car, but just about comparing something you love that you let get rundown, and NASH I think he was kind of talking about the band, sort of ignoring it,” Nash said.

“When we got back together after breaking up, [we started] just sort of

It was a short hiatus.

“We reformed in 2007 because we missed the music and missed each other and what the other person brings musically to the table,” the lead singer said during a call from a tour stop in Annapolis, Md. “So it’s been very rewarding these past few months actually having

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treating it better and kind of doing right by the band.”

Slocum and Nash formed the group in Texas in 1992 and based its name on a passage from the C.S. Lewis book, “Mere Christianity.”

In 1998, “Kiss Me” catapulted the band onto international charts.

Sixpence scored hits with “Breathe Your Name” and covers of “There She Goes” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over” before breaking up in 2003.

“It had just been a really long time that we’d been making music and some of the times struggling, actually most of the time struggling, some of the time being very successful — and that was a really big surprise when we had the hits,” Nash recalled.

“All along, we kind of struggled with the business side of things. And I think in the end, around 2004, that started to get the better of us; I suppose it was 2003 when we decided to call it quits.”

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer

By Vicki L. Kroll

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OCT. 14-20, 2012

Events: New Moon in Libra (15th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

This is a week of heightened personal and inter-personal activity. Things happen quickly as the week begins.

Consider long-term implications before agreeing to anything. Thursday morning could be quarrelsome. Clarify intentions with others over the weekend.

As the week starts you may have to face people or situations that intimidate you. Listen carefully as others give subtle clues to what is needed. In turn, be cautious about what you disclose. Persistence and familiarity are the keys to untangling knots of red tape.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You may be seeing obstacles instead of possibilities. Your attitude shifts Tuesday, when people near you offer terrific suggestions. Speed and precision are necessary to take advantage of opportunities. New partnerships boost your earning potential.

Long-term situations reveal fractures. Take it seriously and monitor these over the next few months. A friend or child is in a relationship crisis. Social invitations come from all directions. Someone wants to appear to be an intimate friend of yours. Be cautious.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

A personal or household problem that’s been suppressed or ignored becomes unavoidable as the week begins.

Emotional factors can overwhelm practical considerations.

Consider whether other people are merely seeking attention, or trying to change the rules.

Rethink your expectations and goals. Multiple opportunities are rolling in now – be realistic and consider the source. You need people who keep promises, and need to avoid battles you can’t win. Good positioning and good partnerships are possible if you’re selective.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Attention centers on household and family this week. People tug and pull Tuesday; some offer sweet opportunities while others play drama queens. Deep emotions rise to the surface. Take ten to sort the critical issues from the stuff that’s distracting or frivolous.

Situations emerge from the ether as the week begins, but you’ll make errors if you try to fix in haste. Pause to think through complicated transactions; charm could be hiding covert motives. Spend time with your family and do seasonal domestic tasks over the weekend.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

This week demands calculated exchanges and attention to details. With so many people swirling around you, it might be easy to dismiss a quiet, loyal person expressing some dissatisfaction. The big test this week is to listen for the small voice, not the noisy ones.

Your speed and efficiency are strengths, but not all situations benefit from haste this week. Consider commitments for the future carefully, especially those that draw you into other peoples’ situations. Your long-term loyalty gains you exclusive access after Friday.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

This is an extremely busy time, and efforts are scattered. An emotionally sensitive issue can detonate early in the week, illuminating feelings that have been roiling around in the dark for a while. A close observer will help you gain better understanding as the weekend arrives.

Reboot finances this week. Research credit, insurance, investments, and pensions for long-term benefit.

Favoritism wounds egos. People can be critical or over-react to situations. Multiple demands stretch you to the limit after Thursday, but you don’t want to miss the fun.

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