Buckeye RINO

Would you like a break from wall-to-wall coverage of the inauguration?  The Carnival of Ohio Politics covers political topics much closer to home, such as the Toledo mayoral race, or Ohio’s 2010 gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.  Ben Keeler, of Keeler Political Report, has ably compiled the current potpourri of Ohio political topics, Carnival 151, for your reading pleasure.

Isn’t it something special when there’s a nice, big, round number associated with something?  I know my favorite TV detective, Mr. Monk, would agree with that.

Writes Like She Talks blogger Jill Miller Zimon has compiled the 150th installment of the Carnival of Ohio Politics!  I really appreciate that she highlighted this week’s entry with the Ford F-150, because Ford Motor Company put food on my family’s table for decade after decade.  As you might expect for someone who grew up in a UAW household, the only cars I’ve ever owned or leased were Fords.

Installment 149 of the Carnival of Ohio Politics is now posted.

I’ve never been snowboarding before.  Anybody care to share a real-life snowboarding experience with me?

Lisa Renee Ward, the blog author of Glass City Jungle, has posted the final 2008 edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.  Please feel welcome to check it out.

Next week is my turn to edit the Carnival.  If you’d like to submit your own blog entry from this current week (as long as its related to Ohio politics) for inclusion to the Carnival, send the link in an email to the Carnival by Tuesday of next week, January 6, by 11 pm.

By the way . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Ben Keeler of  The Point at politics.ohio.com and of Keeler Political Report has posted the newest entry, #146 to be exact, of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.  For those wondering where my own blog entries are, I apologize, but sometimes real life gets in the way of having opportunities to produce more blog posts at Buckeye RINO.  I hope to return to full productivity in the near future.  In the meantime, if you miss reading new material here at Buckeye RINO, perhaps this week’s crop of blog entries at the Carnival can help satisfy your cravings for commentary on Ohio’s politics.

Issue #145 of Carnival of Ohio Politics is up.  Beamed up.  As in, “Scotty, beam me up.”  Actually, Jill Miller Zimon, of Writes Like She Talks, is the editor with the transporter beam, as she adopted a science fiction motif for the current Carnival.  Please check out the Carnival for a digest of Ohio’s best political blog pieces for the past week.

Beam us up, Jill!

I’ve seen the political future, and you can too.  Check out the Carnival of Ohio Politics, with contributions from bloggers across the political spectrum and from across the Ohio landscape.  Issue #144 is now posted.

You are in for a real treat if you head over to Carnival of Ohio Politics.  Installment number 142 has been posted by the same blogger that writes The Boring Made Dull, which is never boring or dull.  If you are confused by all the economic turmoil, and don’t know what the best approach is to finding our way out of the economic wilderness, there is a bumper crop of blog entries from all over Ohio about getting a handle on our economy.  After perusing the economic issues from all sides, your head should have all the info it needs to come to a clear conclusion, and the way forward will open up to your vision like magic.  Either that, or you’ll end up being really, really, really confused.  The video at the beginning of the current Carnival edition really isn’t instructive, but it’s funny.  The blog articles that this week’s Carnival links to are really instructive.  The post I liked the most was from the blog titled Divided We Stand United We Fall.  If you check out that post from Monday, November 17, please make sure you watch the 10 minute video featuring Peter Schiff.  Once you are familiar with the scenario that brought our economy to its present point (and Peter Schiff saw this coming well in advance of its arrival), the path out of the wilderness is a lot more visible.

The able editor, Ben Keeler, has unveiled the latest installment of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.  This installment has a bumper crop of election-related posts from all over Ohio that really attracted lots of web traffic.  Bloggers I’ve received feedback from, plus traffic here at Buckeye RINO, show that the stories from these past two weeks have been immensely popular with blog readers.  Please check out the Carnival, and you also might want to eyeball Keeler Political Report and The Point at Politics.Ohio.com for additional samples of Ben Keeler’s writing.

It’s getting close to crunch time, and that’s what’s reflected in the blog entries gathered from all over Ohio about politics.  Editor Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks has unveiled the 140th installment of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.  The next edition is likely to be posted AFTER election day.  Check it out.

This was my sophomore turn as editor of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.  Installment number 139 is now posted.  I’ll tell you what, there are lots of angry bloggers, politicians, and voters out there.  I think I need to head over to WLST for some Chicken Soup for the Swing State Soul.  Check out the Carnival, yourselves, and then get some of that Chicken Soup afterwards.

Lisa Renee of Glass City Jungle has churned out another edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics.

If you like to blog about Ohio politics and you haven’t participated in the Carnival, I hope you’ll consider sending prime examples of your best work to be included in next week’s Carnival.

If you just like to read blogs about Ohio politics, then you should head there to get a sampling of the best blog entries from around the state that were written during the past week.

Installment #138 of the Carnival is now posted.  Check it out.

Most of Ohio’s political bloggers are rank amateurs, and that includes myself, whose blogging comes from inward motivations.  Most bloggers, like me, don’t make any money to blog.  There are a few that have a little bit of advertising.  There are a few that are professional, like Progress Ohio, that has its own office space, or Openers, which is a blogging arm of a newspaper (in this case, the Plain Dealer).  For those few blogs that aren’t purely amateur, they have an exposure, however slight, to external editorial constraints.  Therefore, for the most part, bloggers write what they want to write without outside interference.

Jill Miller Zimon, of Writes Like She Talks (WLST), once abandoned an arrangement with the Plain Dealer ostensibly because she sensed that some entity or entities desired to influence what she wrote or didn’t write.  Writes Like She Talks was one of my favorite left-of-center blogs to read. Read the rest of this entry »

Check out the Carnival of Ohio Politics for the best of what the Ohio political blogosphere has to offer for the past week.  Installment number 137 is now posted.

While you’re at it, please welcome our new editor for the Carnival, who has been blogging for some time now at The Boring Made Dull.