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More owners appeal property value; get tax break

CLEVELAND—A growing number of homeowners are trying to make falling property values work for them by asking the government for a tax break. Some are winning cuts worth hundreds of dollars in taxes that traditionally help pay for everything from law ...

From JOE MILICIA, Boston Globe,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Robert Chambers

1 year, 1 day in prison for Ohio church accountant

CLEVELAND—The former chief financial officer of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison on tax charges. U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich received about 50 letters in support of Joseph H. Smith from his friends, ...

From JOE MILICIA, Boston Globe,  11 Dec 2008
Related Topics: John Wright

Chastened auto executives opt for a road trip

SOMERSET, Pa. — The head of the nation’s largest automaker took perhaps the most important car ride of his life Wednesday, traveling 500 miles, mostly over highway through four states, to Washington, D.C., where he will ask Congress for a second time ...

From JOE MILICIA, The Register Guard,  4 Dec 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Rick Wagoner,  General Motors,  Ford Motor Company,  Robert Nardelli

Not just another car ride for GM CEO Wagoner

The head of the nation's largest automaker took perhaps the most important car ride of his life Wednesday, traveling 500 miles (804 kilometers), mostly over highway through four states, to Washington, D.C., where he will ask Congress for a second ...

From JOE MILICIA, Taiwan News,  4 Dec 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Ford Motor Company,  White House,  General Motors,  Rick Wagoner

Suburban Ohio school district wants a bailout, too

CLEVELAND—A financially ailing Ohio school district has joined the ranks of banks and automakers clamoring for a portion of the $700 billion economic bailout package. Olmsted Falls Superintendent Todd Hoadley said Tuesday that if automakers and big U.S. ...

From JOE MILICIA, Boston Globe,  2 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Henry Paulson,  Sherrod Brown,  Dennis Kucinich,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

Ohio Lottery's new Keno game off to slow start

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The bingo-like lottery game that began this summer in Ohio to help plug the gaping hole in the state budget is off to a slow start. Keno has been hindered by a weak economy and challenges getting it established at 2,000 bars and ...

From JOE MILICIA, The Orange County Register,  26 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ted Strickland,  U.S. Republican Party

Ohio Lottery's new game off to slow start; Keno profits needed to help plug state deficit

Keno started Aug. 4 and sales were roughly $32 million through Saturday with profits of about $8 million. At that rate, Keno will fall far short of the state's goal for annual revenue of $292 million — of which $73 million would go toward the budget ...

From JOE MILICIA, Canadian Business Online,  25 Nov 2008

Rock hall pays tribute to guitar innovator Les Paul

Friday, November 14, 2008 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND When Les Paul's grandchildren are jamming on the video game "Guitar Hero," it's not lost on him that he made it all possible. Paul, known as the "Father of the Electric Guitar," ...

From JOE MILICIA, Canton Repository,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Les Paul,  Duane Allman,  Jimmy Page,  Mary Ford,  Duane Eddy (musician)

Found: $182,000 and a Lot of Grief

Contractor Bob Kitts and homeowner Amanda Reece pose with money he found in a wall at her home in Ohio. "Because they were not able to sit down and divide it in a rational way, they both lost," said an attorney involved in the dispute. (Courtesy Of Bob ...

From JOE MILICIA, The Washington Post,  9 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Patrick Dunne

Cash found in Ohio house's walls becomes nightmare

CLEVELAND—A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication. The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob ...

From JOE MILICIA, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Patrick Dunne

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