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Michael Andrew Spieles VANDALIA, OHIO...
...hope "that more Republicans will go to the White House and say, 'We can't do this anymore.'" The reply didn't quite mollify Gabriel, 49, a financial adviser who calls himself pro-life, pro-gun but antiwar. His son Michael, 22, is in the National Guard in neighboring Ohio; half of his division is expected to be deployed to Iraq...
Altmire's district stretches west from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Ohio border. In 2006 he wrested the congressional seat from three-term incumbent Melissa Hart with just 52% of the vote. The district should vote solidly Republican; on the same ballot, former Steelers football star Lynn Swann, the Republican challenger to Governor Ed Rendell, won by more than 20 percentage points. But the time was right for Altmire, a pro-gun fiscal conservative whose sandy hair, hazel eyes and freckles make him look far younger than his 39 years...
Lynn Buchinsky is the kind of entrepreneur who isn't supposed to exist. Working just 12 hours a week, six months a year, she expects to earn more than $30,000 in 2007, thanks to the portable tennis program she created for day-care centers and schools in Solon, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Launched last summer and designed for kids ages 3 to 11, Buchinsky's Little Racquets is different from other tennis lessons because it brings all the equipment--even the net--directly to the schools. That means parents don't have to shuttle their kids back and forth...
...George Voinovich was wending his way down the Potomac River, toward George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, accompanied by a delegation of European security experts, in town for a conference. A motorboat draped in banners that read "Equal Voting Rights for D.C." drifted up alongside the boat. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, found himself at a loss for words. "It was very difficult to explain to my European friends why the people who lived in the District of Columbia - the heart of our government - had no representation," Voinovich recalled at a Senate committee meeting last month. "The explanation I gave wasn...