http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Josh Sweigart and Dave Greber report about Butler County, Ohio, politics, county government, countywide issues and Butler County people just like you for Cox Ohio Publishing (including the Hamilton JournalNews, Middletown Journal and several weekly papers in Butler County). They want your suggestions and questions for more news stories. Leave a comment for them at jsweigart@coxohio.com or dgreber@coxohio.com. Josh Sweigart Dave Greber Quick news updates by e-mail Start your workday informed by signing up for our e-mail local news headlines and breaking news alerts. Sign up en-us jsweigart@coxohio.com 2008-07-04T05:00:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/04/hamilton_mayor_seeks_combined.html Hamilton Mayor Don Ryan appealed to Butler County commissioners in a Thursday, July 3, letter to save county water customers money by having the city take over the county’s water system. Ryan’s letter was in response to reports in the... 5039903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Environmental Services 2008-07-04T05:00:00-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/03/mccain_obama_stake_claims_in_b.html Both U.S. presidential campaigns are setting the pieces in place for a battle in Butler County. Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama have dispatched lieutenants to base regional headquarters in and around Hamilton. The state Republican party... 5033803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Presidential race 2008-07-03T13:32:56-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/03/care_facility_struggling_to_ma.html If you’re a long-term patient at the Butler County Care Facility these days, you’re more likely to have pork for dinner instead of chicken. That’s because the price of chicken — like gas, pharmacy items and other expenses — are... 5026703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Butler County 2008-07-03T09:26:13-05:00 dgreber@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/03/huffington_post_butler_gop_off.html In a story about party and campaign headquarters nationwide, the Huffington Post describes the Butler County Republican Party headquarters as ostentatious, second only to the party headquarters in Manhattan: Perched atop a grassy mound just down the road from Walden... 5009603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Republican Party 2008-07-03T07:30:00-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/02/the_oxford_connector_roil.html Like all things circulating around a proposed road connecting U.S. 27 and Ohio 73, the project’s history is relative, depending on whom you ask. Officials with the Butler County Engineer’s Office say the proposal stemmed from a two-year study concluded... 5009103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Transportation 2008-07-02T16:00:00-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/07/02/fonzie_first_fido_member_in_do.html This story is a must read by reporter Richard Wilson. It talks about Fonzie, a 1-year-old Shepherd mix recently adopted by the Butler County Sheriff’s Department, to take place in the agency’s first installment of a program geared toward therapeutically... 5006903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Butler County Sheriff's Department 2008-07-02T12:55:28-05:00 dgreber@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/30/life_in_butler_county.html If you’ve ever wondered what kind of correspondence Butler County leaders get, here’s a sample below (a copy was sent to several reporters here). I warn you, it’s not a glowing review of Butler County. Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008... 4952703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Butler County 2008-06-30T14:21:23-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/30/butler_county_wins_awards.html Just received this press release from Butler County: BUTLER COUNTY WINS NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Butler County recently won eight national awards for exceptional achievement in county government from the National Association of Counties (NACo). NACo recognized one Child Support Enforcement... 4943603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Butler County 2008-06-30T09:34:47-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/27/regional_transportation_summit.html Hamilton County’s call for a regional transportation summit follows maneuvering by the city of Cincinnati to wrest control of the Cincinnati Metro from the county. Read about that here. The city approved its plan last week. Read GCTA.pdf below for... 4908403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Transportation 2008-06-27T11:44:20-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/27/road_woes.html The act of getting people from one place to another has been a source of ire at both the eastern and western extremes of Butler County lately. To the east, a planned project to widen Butler Warren Road drew much... 4907803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Transportation 2008-06-27T11:10:40-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/26/mccain_crowd_pleasers.html Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain spoke at a town hall meeting at Xavier University today. Read the story here. The crowd consisted mostly of undecided voters invited after they were picked by random polling, according to campaign reps. Others... 4893303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Presidential race 2008-06-26T18:07:48-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/25/crank_claims_organizational_ef.html This press release came in from the Butler County Recorder’s office: Butler County Recorder Danny Crank Gives Commissioners $100,000 Back for General Fund HAMILTON, OHIO - Through efficient use of office resources, Butler County Recorder Danny Crank was able to... 4855303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ County Recorder 2008-06-25T16:30:00-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/25/county_waffles_on_layoffs.html Butler County commissioners appear to be reconsidering a planned layoff of 22.5 Environmental Services employees that was supposed to go into effect June 16. Read the story here. Read more about the proposed layoffs, and corresponding cuts to residential water... 4857003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Environmental Services 2008-06-25T15:25:25-05:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/20/county_going_green_to_save_gre.html County commissioners on Thursday, June 19, announced they were looking at creating a policy in an attempt to cut costs on fuel. Although they expected to pay between $800,000 and $1 million on gas in 2008, they didn’t expect to... 4762603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ 2008-06-20T18:13:47-05:00 dgreber@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2008/06/20/children_services_trying_to_ke.html Today, June 20, we featured a pair of stories about policies in the works in Butler County Children Services in an attempt to change the agency’s culture. Executive Director Michael Fox said he wants to improve the foster experience locally... 4743503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Children Services 2008-06-20T07:29:49-05:00 dgreber@coxohio.com