By Stephen Koff, Plain Dealer – June 3, 2009

WASHINGTON — For a state filled with smokestacks — a state that made cars and bicycles and steel and cash registers — the promise of “green jobs” in Ohio can sound hollow.

In fact, after the Obama administration recently announced it would provide $50 million nationwide to retrain soon-to-be unemployed auto industry workers for green jobs, Congressman Steve LaTourette of Bainbridge Township said that he and Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland had joked:

Everyone talks about green jobs, but the only ones available seem to be cutting the lawns of Wall Street bigwigs who got bailout bonuses.

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