News roundup: week ending July 9, 2010

• Ohioans want Edison as U.S. Capitol statue
• Edison in running for D.C. statue pick
• Edison still wins contest after boxes of uncounted ballots discovered
• Ohio Historical Society Will Recount Statuary Hall Ballots
• Ohioans pick Thomas Edison to represent the state at U.S. Capitol
• Milan community congratulated by Kaptur on Edison selected for Statuary Hall
• Should ‘The Wizard of Menlo Park’ New Jersey Stand for Ohio?
• DailyMe: Edison the winner in Statuary Hall vote: Ohio inventor edges Wright Brothers
• Ohioans Choose Edison for National Statuary Hall Collection
• Edison edges out Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison Tops Vote For New Statue In U.S. Capitol
• Philly: Ohioans prefer Edison over Wright Bros. for National Statuary Hall
• Recount in National Statue vote?
• Ohioans prefer Edison over Wright Bros. for National Statuary Hall
• Ohioans want inventor in Statuary Hall
• Edison beats Wright Bros. in voting for Capitol statue
• Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in US Capitol
• Ohio Historical Society recounts votes for new Statuary Hall candidate
• WHIO: Thomas Edison tops voting for new statue; Wright Brothers close second
• WFMJ: Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in US Capitol
• Edison to represent Ohio in statue form
• Edison’s image to represent Ohio
• Historical society screws up vote count; Wright brothers still second
• Edison had a dark side
• WOSU: Ohio Historical Society Will Recount Statuary Hall Ballots
• Poten & Partners: Edison to replace Gov. William Allen in Capitol
• Ohioans select Edison for Washington, D.C. statue
• Editorial: Wrights still best pick for statue after vote
• Dispatch Politics: Ohioans want Edison as U.S. Capitol statue
• A Capitol idea: Thomas Edison to represent Ohio
• Edison the winner in Statuary Hall vote
• Edison to represent Ohio in Statuary Hall
• Journal: Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in US Capitol
• Ohioans select Edison for Washington, D.C. statue
• Dayton Lawyers: Edison the winner in Statuary Hall Vote
• Ohioans prefer Edison over Wright Bros. for National Statuary Hall
• Edison to replace Gov. William Allen in Capitol
• Ohioans prefer Edison over Wright Bros. for National Statuary Hall
• Edison’s statue to represent Ohio in D.C.
• Ohioans choose Edison for statuary hall
• Lancaster EG: Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in US Capitol
• Popular Vote Favors Thomas Edison As Ohio Representative In U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall
• Ohioans Choose Edison for statue at U.S. Capitol
• Ohioans pick Edison for Buckeye State statue
• MSNBC: Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in US
• Ohio picks Edison for new statue
• HISTORY ™ Announces Winners of the Innovation in History Education Contest
• Edison is chosen to represent Ohio: Statue will be placed in U.S. Capitol
• Ohioans want Thomas Edison statue in U.S. Capitol
• Ohioans want Edison statue in U.S. Capitol

News roundup: week ending June 11, 2010

• Make your mark in history: Only a week left to cast ballots for Edison statue at U.S. Capitol
• Vote now or never on Ohio’s choice to stand in Statuary Hall
• Historic Ohioans vying for spot in Statuary Hall
• Voting closes this weekend for statue of influential Ohioan to be on display at U.S. Capitol
• Edison supporters push for votes
• Mike Turner Delivers Ballots for Statue in the US Capitol
• Cast Your Vote for Albert Sabin by June 12
• 5 days left to ‘elect’ Wright brothers, other Ohioans for Statuary Hall in D.C.
• Ohio Historical Society in search of new Statuary Hall rep in D.C.
• Don’t slight women pioneers in Statuary Hall competition
• State statue vote ends Saturday
• Voting wraps up for Statuary Hall’s new Buckeye
• Vote until Saturday for new Ohio statue at U.S. Capitol
• Vote ends Saturday for Ohio statue in US Capitol
• Voting for Ohio’s Statuary Hall candidate ends this Saturday
• Still time to vote for Edison
• Jesse Owens Vote Rounds Final Turn
• Vote McCulloch
• WFMJ: Vote ends Saturday for Ohio statue in US Capitol
• Last chance to vote for William M. McCulloch!
• WKBN: Vote for Ohio Statue
• Thousands of votes pour in to pick new Ohio statue
• Votes due Saturday on Ohio statue in U.S. Capitol
• nbc4: Vote Ends Saturday For Ohio Statue In U.S. Capitol
• Wright Brothers among finalists for new Capitol statue
• Senator Teresa Fedor casts vote for Ohio statue
• Press Coverage for the Women Candidates for NSH from Ohio
• WTOL: Vote ends Saturday for Ohio statue in US Capitol
• Examiner: Vote ends Saturday for Ohio Statue
• WTTE Fox: Columbus Top Story-Vote Now for Ohio Statue
• WKSU News: Ohioans pick a new statue
• Last Chance to Vote for Ohio Statue
• OHIO REPORT: You have until Saturday to vote on new statue for US Capitol
• MSNBC-Vote Ends Saturday for Ohio Statue
• Vote for Ohio Representative to Statuary Hall by June 12th
• WLWT: Statue Will Represent State In Capitol’s Statuary Hall
• So To Speak: His vote for statue goes to Grant
• Who Should Stand for Ohio?
• WKYC: Saturday Marks Deadline to Pick Famous Ohioan for Statue in D.C.
• Mars Society is casting its vote for Wright brothers and Dayton
• Fedor to Cast Vote for Statuary Hall

Voting closes this weekend for statue of influential Ohioan to be on display at U.S. Capitol

Published on June 7, 2010 in the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Voting closes Saturday to help decide which influential Ohioan will be memorialized as a statue and represent the state at the U.S. Capitol.

Ohioans of all ages can choose from a list of 10 finalists and cast their ballots at one of three dozen voting locations across the state. Ballots also can be downloaded online — at www.legacyforohio.org — and submitted via e-mail or traditional mail, but they must be turned in or postmarked by June 12.

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Kim Schuette, communications manager for the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, said about 13,000 ballots have been sent to the center so far. She anticipates a flood of ballots to arrive next week from polling places that stockpiled ballots to send in one batch after voting closes.

Read the full article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Historic Ohioans vying for spot in Statuary Hall

Published on June 7, 2010 in the Columbus Dispatch:

Picking a famous Ohioan to be honored in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., has all the trappings of a political race: campaign committees, spirited debate, high-profile spokesmen and a public vote.

But in this case, all the candidates are dead and the winner will be cast in stone instead of taking office.

Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee is beating the drum for Jesse Owens; Amanda Wright Lane, the great-great-grandniece of Orville and Wilbur Wright, is campaigning for her pilot-ancestors; and the University of Cincinnati is backing Dr. Albert Sabin, the inventor of the polio vaccine.

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The campaigning has been spirited and sometimes contentious.

Stan Purdy, a Georgetown, Ohio, lawyer who is president of the U.S. Grant Homestead Association, said it’s hard to compete with some of the more-glamorous campaigns.

“The Edison people are way out in front,” Purdy said. “If you give them one table to give a demonstration, they’ll take three.

“The Wright brothers had a flight simulator. That’s not fair,” he said, joking.

But Grant got an unexpected bonus from the recent proposal to replace the Ohioan’s likeness on the $50bill with that of former President Ronald Reagan.

“I couldn’t have created any greater publicity than that,” Purdy said.

Read the full article in the Columbus Dispatch.

News roundup: week ending June 4, 2010

• Toledo Blade
• News Herald
  
• Ohio Civil War
• Poten.com
• WCMS Radio
• Tipp News
• Oakwood Register
• Trib Today
• Toledo Blade

Flapper gowns on display at Upton

Published on June 4, 2010 in the Trib Today:

A display of 1920s FLAPPER DRESSES will be shown from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Harriet Taylor Upton House off Mahoning Avenue for the first open house of the summer. The subject of the open house is voting. There will be a display memorabilia regarding the Suffrage movement. Attendees will have a chance to vote to have a statue of Harriet Taylor Upton placed in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. Lemonade and cookies will be served.

Read the original article in the Trib Today.

Ohioans back best Buckeye for revered site

Published on June 1, 2010, in the Toledo Blade:

COLUMBUS – Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee is pushing for Jesse Owens.

Three costumed women campaigned for Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton, and Challenger astronaut Judith Resnik.

And a Dayton economic development group is the wind beneath the wings of the Wright Brothers.

While the campaigns hardly compare to the nasty television ads in this year’s race for governor, advocates for Ohio’s 10 finalists – 11 if you count Orville and Wilbur Wright separately – are using the Internet and star power to get their favorites into the National Statuary Hall.

As of last week, more than 12,000 ballots had been received, Ohio Historical Society spokesman Kim Schuette said.

The unprecedented vote, which will continue through June 12, is designed to influence a legislative committee that formally will recommend a replacement for Gov. William Allen as one of two Ohio representatives in the hall in the U.S. Capitol.

Allen, a Democratic governor and congressman from Chillicothe, was popular in the late 1800s, but his tolerance of slavery and opposition to the policies of President Abraham Lincoln have not worn well over time. So the state is looking to make a change.

Ohio’s other representative, assassinated Republican President James Garfield, will remain in the hall.

Also among the 10 nominees on the ballot are inventor and Milan native Thomas Edison, Toledo congressman and abolitionist James Ashley, civil rights leader William McCulloch, medical researcher Albert Sabin, and Civil War general and President Ulysses S. Grant.

Working with supporters in Ohio, the campaign has contacted women’s political groups, schools for girls, Girl Scouts, and other organizations in hopes of getting out the vote.

But she’s feeling a bit overwhelmed by Ohio State’s lobbying for Owens, the African-American track star whose 1936 Olympic gold medals in Berlin became a thumb in the eye to Adolf Hitler’s Aryan superiority propaganda.

Mr. Gee cast his vote for Owens on the first day of balloting at the historical society, and the university president engaged in a good-natured debate with the costumed women who were present to promote the three female candidates.

Ohio State also used the recent grand opening of its new Ohio Union to promote Owens.

“There’s a lot of competition,” Ms. Long said. “The fact is that Ohio State University is a public institution that gets federal and state money. I think it would be better if they educated the student body about all 10 candidates and let the students make an educated choice rather than push so hard for an [alumnus]. I find that disturbing.”

OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said Mr. Gee’s involvement is as much about promoting the vote in general as it was promoting Owens. He said the school is also behind McCulloch, another alumnus.

Read the full article at the Toledo Blade.

News roundup: week ending May 28, 2010

• Ohio’s 8th Congressional District Blog
• Dayton Daily News
• National Business Aviation Association
• The Daily Jeffersonian
• Trib Today
• Western Reserve Historical Society
• No Left Turns: The Ashbrook Center Blog
• Ohio Examiner
• General Aviation News
• Cleveland Scene
• The City of Oakwood

News roundup: week ending May 21, 2010

• Columbus Dispatch
• Cleveland Scene
• L.A. Times
• Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati
• The Daily Jeffersonian
• City of Piqua

You can vote for Resnik statue in U.S. Capitol

Published on May 15, 2010 in the Akron Beacon Journal:

Judith A. Resnik, Akron’s own astronaut, is in the running to represent Ohio in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, and you can help send her likeness to the nation’s capital.

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Judith Arlene Resnik was born April 5, 1949, to parents Marvin and Sarah Resnik. She and a younger brother, Charles, were raised in Akron.

She attended Firestone High School, where she was valedictorian of the class of 1966. She excelled in mathematics and played classical piano.

She received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University in 1970 and her doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1977.

In August 1984, Resnik became the second American woman in space as a mission specialist aboard shuttle Discovery’s maiden voyage.

Sally Ride had been the first, aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1983.

Resnik was killed, along with her six crew mates, on Jan. 28, 1986, when Challenger exploded 73 seconds after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. She was 36 years old.

The explosion was blamed on a faulty seal on an O-ring on a solid rocket-fuel booster.

Resnik was awarded the congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004 for exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the nation and humankind.

Many buildings have been named after her, including an Akron elementary school.

Three of the candidates to represent Ohio are women: Resnik; author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896); and Harriet Taylor Upton (1853-1945), a prominent suffragist who helped lay the groundwork for the women’s right to vote and the first child-labor law.

Read the full article at the Akron Beacon Journal.

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