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Friday, May 15, 2009

Topics: Economy, Politics, Other
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Newsmaker—Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid: Cuyahoga County’s new sheriff took the oath Monday with promises to restore the office’s credibility. The former Bedford city manager and police chief replaced former Sheriff Gerald McFaul who left amid allegations of misfeasance and malfeasance. Among Reid’s first official acts was the dismissal of three top McFaul deputies and a stated intention to continue a ban on political work.

Roundtable: Elizabeth McIntyre, deputy managing editor, The Plain Dealer; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine; Bill Livingston, sports columnist, The Plain Dealer.

Dealerships Dropped: Chrysler’s retrenchment will bury 789 dealerships nationwide, 14 of them in greater Cleveland. Spitzer Auto Group was hardest-hit with five franchises revoked by Chrysler. General Motors Friday announced the closing of more than one thousand dealerships nationwide. Unlike Chrysler, GM did not supply of list of dealers losing their franchises.

Demjanjuk Deported: German prosecutors will have the chance to prove that a retired Seven Hills autoworker spent part of his earlier life herding Jews into the gas chambers at Sobibor, a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Federal agents took Demjanjuk from his home this week and put him on an airplane to Germany where he’ll face accusations that he was the accessory to the murder of 29,000 people.

Medicare and Social Security: The government reported this week that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds will run dry years earlier than expected. Social Security runs out of money in 2037, Medicare in 2017. Officials say both have been hit hard by the economic downturn. With unemployment high, the amount of money going into the funds has been shrinking.

Unstoppable Cavaliers: The Cleveland Cavaliers finished the regular season with the best record in the NBA and they’ve turned it up a notch in the playoffs. Led by league MVP LeBron James, the Cavs ousted the Detroit Pistons and the Atlanta Hawks in consecutive four-game sweeps with no game closer than ten points. Now, the Cavs are poised to take on the winner of the bruising Boston-Orlando series in the eastern conference final.

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