6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

The Erie County Health Department is no longer interested in moving to the old YMCA building if the Y moves to a new location.

Health commissioner Pete Schade floated the idea but dropped it when his board expressed little enthusiasm.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

One of the consequences of the environmental fellowship I recently attended, the Great Waters Institute, is that I have largely stopped drinking store-bought bottled water, and switched to using tap water, which I use to fill water bottles given to me by various organizations (including the Perki

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Most of the folks touting the benefits of a proposed new airport to serve NASA Plum Brook Station are talking about jobs that would take awhile to develop.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Suddenly, Democrats don't have a candidate after all for the 58th House District, which includes Norwalk.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

There's a big controversy these days in the liberal blogosphere over Barack Obama's decision to back a new compromise version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Look for the City of Sandusky's Marina District project to be back in the news again in less than two weeks.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

As you might guess, the slowdown in the economy seems to be having an effect on tourism in Sandusky.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Firelands Symphony Orchestra officials have made a mortifying discovery.

The symphony's new glossy color brochure promoting the 2008-09 season has the wrong dates for two of the symphony's four planned concerts.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Gov. Ted Strickland remains popular in Ohio and the state seems to be trending Democratic, so Barack Obama is leading Ohio. Right?

Wrong.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

The annual “Day in the Outdoors” for area young people at the Joe Steinen Wildlife Area was rained out in June, so organizers are trying again.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

The selection of available cats is still good at the Erie County Humane Society shelter, which is continuing its special pricing for cat adoptions through the rest of July.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

You expect to get cat news here at the Sandusky Register, and we're giving it to you.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Mathew Old, the chairman of the Erie County Republican Party, is a young person, and young folks like to hang out at social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

The Washington Post has a hot story today saying that the Democratic governor of Virginia, Timothy M.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Ohio's unemployment rate is the highest it's been since October 1993, nearly 15 years ago.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

The Ohio Libertarian Party has won — and that might have an effect on Ohio’s presidential election.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

My colleague Cory Frolik has been all over the Norwalk Furniture saga (latest story here).

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

During Tuesday's presentation of the new Strategic Action Plan for Erie County, the head of the company that wrote the report, Angelos Angelou, took some time to draw a distinction between citizens and residents.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Last week, I posted about an apparent front-runner as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama looks for a vice president nominee to run with: Virginia's governor, Timothy M. Kaine.

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Erie County Economic Development Corp. has posted the new Strategic Action Plan to its Web site. You should read the whole thing, but you can get a quick version by looking at the report's list of strategies.

STRATEGIC STRATEGIES

6:27 PM Mar 23, 2010

Suddenly, wind power as an energy source looks more feasible than it did just a few weeks ago.