These projects, which will be completed this year, are on the heels of the city spending $1.4 million to repave 11 of a dozen streets in the city. The last street in this year’s paving program will be Carmody Boulevard off Germantown Road.
Carmody will be repaved by the end of the summer.
No borders for jobs
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is defending OhioMeansJobs.com that allows out-of-state job searches.
Following Gov. John Kasich's signing Thursday at Cincinnati State Middletown of two House Bills geared to help match unemployed and underemployed Ohioans with new jobs, Ohio Democratic spokesman Matt McGrath criticized the job search website for allowing out-of-state searches.
In Friday’s Journal, McGrath was quoted as saying: “The governor should work to fix his website to help people find employment in the Buckeye state, rather than send them and their tax dollars to states like Michigan, Pennsylvania or New York.”
Ben Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said OhioMeansJobs.com — which was launched in 2008 during Gov. Ted Strickland’s administration — should permit out-of-state searches for a number of reasons, including to help residents in border cities like Cincinnati, Youngstown and Toledo, find jobs close to home that may be in neighboring states.
“It absolutely makes no sense to hide jobs from people,” Johnson said.
The bills signed into law, House Bill 1 and 2, will re-brand the state’s one-stop job centers to OhioMeansJobs centers in each county and require those seeking unemployment to register on OhioMeansJobs.com.
There were nearly 117,000 jobs listed just in Ohio and more than 3.39 million jobs in the country and Puerto Rico as of Friday afternoon.
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