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Friday, September 19, 2008

Topics: Economy, Politics
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Newsmaker: Anne Goodman, executive director, Cleveland Foodbank.
The winds that brought down trees and power lines helped create a flood of emergency food requests to charity agencies in all over Ohio. Anne Goodman, who’s also chair of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks, will tell us how charities are coping with the demand.

Roundtable: Mark Naymik, politics reporter, The Plain Dealer; Harry Boomer, reporter, 19 Action News; Henry Gomez, reporter, The Plain Dealer.

We Don’t Like Ike: The dying breath of Hurricane Ike was more than enough to cause widespread damage and power blackouts across Ohio. More than two million Ohio homes lost power, hundreds of thousands in northeast Ohio. Some people had to wait until the weekend for the electricity to start flowing again. Governor Strickland declared emergencies in all but four Ohio counties.

Politics Round-up: Ohio’s status as a battleground state got some reinforcement this week as the candidates at the top of the major party tickets paid the state a visit. Senator Hillary Clinton also came to Akron to stump for Barack Obama, who this week rolled out a plan to bolster clean-up efforts on the Great Lakes. Senator Joe Biden made a speech in Maumee; Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin put in appearances in Cleveland and Vienna with the economy as the front-burner issue.

Eaton Run? Another Fortune 500 company appears ready to bolt Cleveland for greener pastures. Eaton Corporation let it be known yesterday that vacant land in Beachwood appears to be a better choice for the company’s new corporate headquarters than a nine-acre parcel in Cleveland’s Flats. If Chagrin Highlands is the final choice, Eaton will walk away from a multi-million dollar tax increment financing plan the city was offering.

Economy Shock Waves: You’d have to be in an earthquake zone to be on shakier ground than that occupied by Wall Street this week. The week began with the fire sale of brokerage giant Merrill Lynch, the bankruptcy of investment banking titan Lehman Brothers and ended with the Fed providing a bailout for insurance titan AIG.
News of tectonic shifts on Wall Street triggered a wave of falling stock prices and merger talks among major banks.

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