FracTracker map shows four Class II injection wells within five miles of our house in Ashtabula County near the PA state line.

This is exactly on the money. 👉 "[A] huge swath of the animosity [to AI] is being driven by historic and justified anger at the extraction class. That anger and energy is good, and just, and... deserves a wide berth." (Karl has a longer version of this at karlbode.com/the-problem-.... )

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted can't leave Washington, D.C., to testify in the largest public corruption trial in Ohio history due to the "Iran war," the defense attorneys said, but did find time to return to the state to attend a fundraiser. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/h...

Huh. Seems like only yesterday our tough-minded Greater Cleveland growth strategists, led by NOACA's Grace Gallucci and the Cleveland Foundation, were announcing a $600K investment to "study" (i.e. promote) a proposed Hyperloop to Chicago --and maybe Toronto -- to be built by HyperloopTT. /1

$4.5 million state sales tax exemption to land ten (10) jobs.

Speaking of that Affordability Agenda, more than 8,000 Cleveland households are now getting 100/100 Mbps home Internet for less than $20/mo. That's not an intro offer or a low-income discount -- it's the regular price and any city resident can get it.

Posted by @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social this morning on X, but not yet on here.

IMHO it would really improve the usefulness of this statistic to distinguish Ohio's recent crop of hyperscale, AI and cryptomining datacenters from the state's many conventional network management and co-location centers. Not the same thing! @daviddewitt.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com

"Approved" city grants being eternally stuck in contract limbo between the CD and Law Depts has been a fact of nonprofit life in Cleveland since Mike White was mayor. Community groups front the money or die trying. It's one big reason Cleveland Tenants Org died. (I should know, I was on the board.)

The "need for BEAD" has always been to get durable broadband infrastructure built in places where there isn't any. If you think Starlink dishes eliminate that need, well okay, pull the plug on BEAD. (Hint: Not gonna happen!) But there's no reason to spend BEAD $$$ on Starlink marketing subsidies.

If we were a healthy society looking toward the future, we'd be giving out work permits to undocumented folks instead of terrorizing and deporting them.

Kid turned down a reporting job because the "writing" is done by AI. This is the same "newsroom" that publishes AI transcripts of its editors' daily podcast (starring Quinn as opinionator-in-chief) as if they were news stories. Kid apparently learned at j-school how to spot professional quicksand.

You've probably seen this NBC piece and other horror stories from Dilley. Note that the "staff" responsible for this and other abuses of the imprisoned kids at Dilley work for CoreCivic, a private prison company that uses the money it saves underfeeding inmates to pay its CEO more than $7 mil/yr.

"[MAGA candidate X] supports higher ocean levels; more killer storms, floods and wildfires; skyrocketing insurance rates; millions more refugees at our borders; Chinese dominance in electric cars and green energy; hotter summers, colder winters, and a grim future for your grandchildren. Do you?"

"... we need to have the requirements and easy ways to do it,” Acton added, “which means more good workforce training and more other things... ” Amy, puh-leez. The *point* of the BigBeautBill Medicaid work rules coming in October is to drive working people out of the program with red tape. /1

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Ah yes, time to go after the Obamaphones. Fun fact: the $5 million in "fraudulent" Lifeline claims for dead and duplicate users that the FCC IG supposedly found was less than .2% of the program's spending over the 3 years in question. It has nothing to do with "unlawfulness" of any live users.

I'd guess Ramaswamy and Husted are desperately trying to keep ICE and CBP out of Clark County.

This is interesting. "DeWine, a Republican, said the policy is 'a bad decision.' 'Our country loses a lot when we have people like this who want to work and we tell them they can’t work and we tell employers you cannot hire them,' DeWine said."

Good question.

Benton Institute's Drew Garner explains how SpaceX is trying to evade normal performance requirements for the many thousands of BEAD rural broadband subsidy locations they've been awarded, included 40,000+ in Ohio. "We can't be accountable for our speeds if a site turns out to have tree cover."

Ohio had its proposed BEAD plan for rural broadband awards "approved" by NTIA (BEAD's lead Commerce Dept agency) way back on 12/2, but is still awaiting a final contract from NIST (another Commerce agency). This from Doug Adams at broadband.io may help explain the holdup.

Wow, *thirty-one* emails over five days, of which (it seems) the majority were mad at the fire chief for lack of reverence toward the martyred Kirk. Enough to get him fired. No info re: similar scrutiny of City safety workers' social media for /1

I'm not a kneejerk fan of any Venezuelan faction, but isn't this guy's story the exact reason why the US has political asylum? Very weird to see a GOP administration throwing anti-socialist refugees AND the Second Amendment overboard.

Surprise! Study by CA Public Utilities Commission finds significant Internet pricing difference between cities with two or more competing gigabit providers (i.e. cable and/or fiber) and those with only one.

Bellingcat: Under life-threatening snowball attack, CBP agent with Bongino fired "less lethal" chemical rounds directly into at least four people's faces at Good killing scene.

Chris Quinn bragging that cleveland.com news makes money unlike the Post-Gazette, cuz something something AI. No mention of Advance busting the Plain Dealer newsroom union by shifting news ops to Quinn's non-union online spinoff and laying off all the Guild members. Ask @connieschultz.bsky.social.

The very last thing Democrats should agree to is more money for Brendan Carr.

"'I feel very strongly that Ford Motor Company is sending a message that people can’t stand up for sexual abuse survivors,' Tlaib said." Yes, among other things.

It will be fun to watch Husted try to distance himself from this shit as the election approaches.

I wonder how diligently Mayor Bibb's people are monitoring the social media of public safety employees for insensitive or inappropriate comments about the assassination of Renee Good.

Trump Commerce Dept has bullied states into diverting BEAD broadband subsidies for 750,000 rural homes, including almost half of BEAD locations in Ohio, to low earth orbit (LEO) satellite services owned by Musk and Bezos. @cdean.bsky.social in broadband.io says this could end very, very badly.

Now see, this is interesting.

The city of Cleveland was upset that people were actually coming into the city, so they decided on this. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/12...

Light Reading's @nicfer.bsky.social has an excellent recap of the eighteen podcast conversations she's conducted this year on aspects of the broadband divide. It's all still pretty current and worth checking out.

Got an email today from BroadbandOhio. Apparently they know their BEAD proposal is approved but aren't sure exactly what changes the Trump people have made to it. "BroadbandOhio is still awaiting details of the approval and will release additional information as it becomes available." What we know:

Trump Commerce Dept has approved Ohio's final proposal for spending BEAD rural broadband funds -- only $260 mil out of the state's original $793 mil grant. 40,000 of Ohio's 83,000 BEAD-assisted connections will be Low Earth Orbit Satellite, i.e. SpaceX. Fate of the remaining $550 mil is still TBD.

Clevelanders, remember when Bernie Moreno was your Civic Leaders' favorite new-money donor, and they all dutifully hyped and attended his Blockland extravaganza, and invited him to join their boards (Cleve Foundation, Tri-C, Cleveland State University)? Yeah, this is the same guy. Go figure.

This is gonna have apocalyptic effects in places like southwestern Ohio, where we’ve got a higher percentage of foreign medical grads doing the work than the 25% that this article cites…

life is what happens between flushes. 🧵

Ohio's original $793 million in BEAD rural broadband funding has been whittled down to just $240 million, partly by relegating 35,000 rural households to Musk satellite vouchers. Trump's people are pushing to claw back the other $550 mil. Maybe Sherrod Brown or Amy Acton should say something?

"The rural health care 'Hunger Games'" -- $50 billion in MAHA patronage that won't cover rural providers' losses from looming Medicaid and ACA cuts, but will keep proposal writers busy at megasystems like Cleveland Clinic. And also make lots of work for consultants and conference promoters.

Cleveland.com (online Plain Dealer) does a daily podcast of Editor Chris Quinn and a few colleagues yakking about various topics. Then they publish one or more AI summaries of each yak session packaged as actual news stories -- with Quinn's takes always quoted at length. Do other papers do this?

NTIA admin Arielle Roth recently said her agency will withhold federal broadband deployment funds fr any state that enacts affordability laws Legal experts say it should be "laughed out of the room" But it may be enough to dissuade some states from moving bills forward. Our story here 💻🌐📶⬇️

Guess there are no quiet parts now, it's all out loud. "By abolishing the FCC’s ownership cap, the Trump administration can allow the opportunity for more right-leaning affiliate owners to become more influential... Yet, puzzlingly, some people who should get this point are actually fighting it."

the benevolence of predators will always blow my mind

Trump bureaucrats keep making up new rules for states' use of rural broadband grants. This one means a NY law mandating $15-$20/mo Internet options for a million+ low income households wouldn't apply to Verizon and Spectrum, NY's two biggest ISPs, because they're taking BEAD $ to connect 7000 homes.

No Kings rally this afternoon in Meadville (pop 12-13K), Crawford County, PA.