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Friday, January 19, 2007

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Newsmaker: Joseph V. Regano, superintendent, Solon City Schools. A group comprised of educators and teachers unions has opened a campaign for passage of a constitutional amendment mandating fundamental change in the way public education is paid for in Ohio. The campaign, called Getting it Right for Ohio's Future, aims to gather enough signatures to get the issue on the statewide ballot next fall. Mr. Regano will describe the changes the campaign envisions.

Roundtable: Chris Sheridan, editorial writer, The Plain Dealer; Mike Roberts, freelance journalist; Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications.

Getting it Right? The panel evaluates the proposed constitutional amendment for school funding.

Clinic's Image: The Cleveland Clinic is regarded as one of the nation's leading medical institutions, but the Clinic's image has taken a hit recently with the uproar over the killing of a dog brought in as an experimental animal for a sales presentation. The Clinic says it did not authorize the experiment. It is cooperating with a USDA investigation. Early this week trial was scheduled to begin in a lawsuit that followed the death of a Clinic surgical patient who was found to have had a towel left inside her during an operation.

No Smoking…But Where? There's supposed to be a statewide ban on smoking in public places, but what is a public place? Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars chapters complained this week they should be exempt from the law because VFW halls are private clubs. But the rules apply because the clubs have employees. The organization threatens to take an exemption fight to a future ballot.

Doug Clifton's Retirement: Plain Dealer editor Doug Clifton announced to the paper's staff that he's retiring effective June 1. Clifton's newspaper career began with a reporting job at the Miami Herald in 1970. He came to the Plain Dealer in the late 90s. Clifton is the second leader to leave the Plain Dealer in the last 12 months. Publisher Alex Machaskee retired last year.

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