Tuesday, February 3, 2009

It’s What We Call the News

10 TV: Columbus-based Huntington Bancshares Inc. announced Tuesday that it would eliminate about 500 jobs throughout the company by March 1. The cuts amount to about 4 percent of the bank's employees. The cuts run across the board, and will include tellers, managers and administrators…A Huntington spokesperson said that the cost-cutting measures would not impact projects already under way, like Huntington Park, the Columbus Clippers' new ballpark…

Cut costs… Check. Put people out of work… Check. Forfeit naming a stadium after our failing business? Heaven forbid…

10 TV: Police were searching for several armed men who stole a car from a south side gas station early Tuesday. Investigators said a man was inside the Marathon gas station, located at 1509 Lockbourne Road near Frebis Avenue, at about 3 a.m… When the man walked out to his Ford Escort, police said two men approached him with a gun and stole the car. Two other men were waiting in a van and drove away with the Escort… Officers spotted the van on Whittier Street. The men were able to elude police, but the van was recovered… The carjacking victim was not injured.

This victim should take heart… Cars are replaceable. Lives are not…

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