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Friday, June 2, 2006

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Newsmaker: Judge Richard McMonagle, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. The judge this week threw the book at a man who’d pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with a child over the Internet. The “child” in this case turned out to be an FBI agent. Judge McMonagle sentenced the man to five years in prison and chastised state lawmakers for not passing harsher laws against online predators.

Roundtable: Elizabeth Sullivan, foreign affairs writer, the Plain Dealer; Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications; Joan Mazzolini, reporter, the Plain Dealer.

The Troubled Vote: It took days a complete the vote count in Cuyahoga County. Investigators have found that design flaws and delays in the delivery of machinery and software were to blame, along with human failures and quirks in local laws. While problems erupted in Cuyahoga County, Election Day transpired without a hitch in neighboring Lorain County where the same voting system was in use.

Gas Tax Holiday: With gasoline pushing three dollars-a-gallon Senate Democrats and an Ohio candidate for the Senate want to stop collecting the federal gas tax for 60 days. The result would be an immediate 18-cent-a-gallon drop in the cost of a gallon of gas. Ohio’s Sherrod Brown is pushing for the change and criticizing oil companies for posting record profits. Critics say Brown and other Democrats could help lower gas prices by setting aside their opposition to oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

More Trouble in Iraq/Afghanistan: A violent week in Iraq began with the car-bomb deaths of members of a CBS news crew. Investigators are trying to get to the bottom of what looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians at the hands of U.S. Marines. A fatal traffic accident involving an American cargo truck touched off rioting in Afghanistan.

Funeral Protests: President Bush signs a law pushing protesters out of view at the funerals of soldiers killed in combat. The Respect for Fallen Heroes Act came about in response to protests by a Kansas church group that links the deaths of soldiers in combat to God’s stance on gay rights in the U.S. The President signed the law on Memorial Day just before laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

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