Sunday, September 18, 2005

Seth [Godin] was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry's leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998.

He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

How shocking is this? At a high school in Canton, Ohio, 13 percent of the female students are pregnant. Here's the scary part: It's not even NBA season yet.
- Jay Leno on NBC

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The state has socked away $1.14 billion in a poverty assistance fund, but less than half of it has been designated for a particular use, a newspaper reported.

Critics said the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services could end up losing funding if legislators see that the agency's allocations aren't being used. The combination of rising poverty and growing surplus ``sends the wrong signal to Congress because these resources aren't being used when they're desperately needed,'' said John Corlett, director of public policy at the Center for Community Solutions in Cleveland.

Ohio is losing ground, and Ohioans individually are slipping economically from the top half to the bottom half of the nation.

``But the bottom line is: Our percentage growth is below the national average,'' Mark Schweitzer, an assistant vice president and economist at the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank said.

In 2004, Ohio was one of seven states trailing the national average in economic recovery from the recession early in the decade. Only Nebraska, Michigan and Louisiana experienced less growth.

[T]wo [causes] have echoed across the state for years: Job losses in the high-paying manufacturing sector are dragging down income levels, and below-average investment in higher education is preventing Ohio from finding new avenues of growth.

Another factor is that Ohio has an aging population, and its young people are leaving.

Census figures show that Ohio lost a larger share of its core work force in the 1990s -- 146,000 people aged 20 to 54 -- than any other state. Nearly three-quarters of the losses were members of Generation X, younger workers born between 1966 and 1980.