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MUNSON, Ohio — A Northeast Ohio community is taking the “Easter” out of the egg hunt.

As the White House prepares for its annual Easter Egg Roll — a tradition dating back to 1878 — some in the community of Munson Township are asking if it’s okay in Washington, how could the word “Easter” offend someone in this small rural community?

Still, township trustees are opting to call this year’s Easter weekend event “The Spring Egg Hunt.”

Dance choreographer Matt Martsolf works with kids every day and has a few of his own. His opinion about what to call this year’s egg hunt is shared with dance clients.

“Stop the headache. Just let the kids have their day,” Martsolf said.

“It’s traditionally been called an Easter egg hunt for years and years and people are little bit too touchy,” client Michelle Nelson said.

Munson homebuilder Enzo Perfetto is putting up the $600 to put the sponsorship in private hands and the Easter back in the egg hunt. Read More

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WINNIPEG’S population is up and so is the number of people reading The Winnipeg Free Press, a new study released Wednesday shows.

In 2010, the number of adults reading the paper each week was 393,500, compared to 389,300 the year before, Newspaper Audience Databank Inc. (NADbank) reported.

With Winnipeg’s 2010 adult population up to 593,400 from 574,700 in 2009, the percentage of print Free Press readers took a slight dip — from 68 per cent of adults in 2009 to 66 per cent last year. But the number of online readers has risen over that period as well.

“Basically our numbers remained stable,” said publisher Bob Cox.

“Interestingly, the actual number of Free Press readers rose in all but one category and overall readership was up, in real numbers, by 1.4 per cent,” he said.

In fact, the Free Press remains the best-read of any major metro newspaper in Canada, and Winnipeg remains the top newspaper market in Canada.

Key stats

• 231,100 Winnipeg adults (39 per cent) read the Winnipeg Free Press every weekday.

• 292,800 Winnipeg adults (49 per cent) read the Winnipeg Free Press every Saturday.

• 417,300 Winnipeg adults (70 per cent) read the Winnipeg Free Press in print or online every week.

Full story at the Free-Press.

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The full House had passed the measure on a 53-44 vote Wednesday after it cleared committee, and the Senate followed with a 17-16 vote of approval.

The measure affects safety workers, teachers, nurses and a host of other government personnel. It allows unions to negotiate wages but not health care, sick time or pension benefits. It gets rid of automatic pay increases and replaces them with merit raises or performance pay. Workers would also be banned from striking. Read More

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Hope ‘n Change, Baby!!!

Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.

Well how about “going green” and making more ethanol? Mmmhhhhh, no. That’s part of the problem and it also creates an even bigger problem. With ethanol you lose 30% efficiency which translates in to buying more of it, and that translates to even higher costs to the consumer. Also, it’s expensive to produce and uses a high amount of another natural resource essential for life, water. But that’s not what I was getting at.

More ethanol mandates (as Obama has ordered) means more crops being used for fuel and less for food, thereby driving the cost of food up. We are already experiencing that consequence here in the United States as anyone that goes to the grocery store is aware of, and there is, according to the U.N. a worldwide food shortage. Take away even more crop land with those eyesore windmills and solar farms, and you compound the problem. Forget the utopian green stuff. Like the national debt, we can’t afford it, and it’s unsustainable. Ever heard the phrase, “Death by a thousand paper cuts?” That’s what “going green” is all about (in a general sense).

I have even more good Obamanomics news for you. Following Obama’s energy plan, and current trends continue, gas prices will double again in about a year. What that means is gas prices will have risen 200% in three years of Obama.

The Washington Times put it this way:

If the trend continues, gas prices would double again within a year. 100% gasoline price inflation is nothing to brag about, but imagine Mr. Obama going into the 2012 election having to explain why gas costs $7.00 a gallon.

Why is this acceptable? No outrage, no complaining, no nothing. Imagine if this was the Bush policy. We’d never hear the end of it. All we’d hear from the partisans (including the media) is that fuel is up 100% and it’s Bush’s fault. Excusing this because it’s “your guy” is really sick. To me, I don’t care if it’s your guy or my guy, this is unacceptable, period.

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PRINCETON, NJ — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s favorable rating from Americans is now 66%, up from 61% in July 2010 and her highest rating to date while serving in the Obama administration. The current rating is just one percentage point below her all-time high rating of 67%, from December 1998.

Hillary viewed more favorable than Barry O!

The latest results are from a March 25-27 Gallup poll conducted while the United States was actively involved in enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, a policy Clinton reportedly advocated. The same poll finds Clinton rated more positively than other top administration officials. Obama receives a 54% favorable rating, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 52%, and Vice President Joe Biden, 46%.

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President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.

Stop the merry-go-round, I want to get off. I can’t take this insanity any longer.

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