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Whenever I visit family in Northwestern Ohio, I pick up the scrappy Toledo Blade for actual news. It is so much more satisfying and nutritious than the RNC newsletter known locally as the Findlay Courier. So I just love it when the Blade gets kudos, as they did for their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Tiger Force, and as they are receiving now for untangling the knot of corruption that is the Ohio GOP. Read their ongoing coverage of "coingate" here.

That Blade story contains links to their previous installments, but you can also find some good stuff - as usual - within the Daily Kos diaries, where volunteer diarists do the sleuthing that journalists are getting paid for. See also the Swing State Project coverage. If you're just picking up on this story, here is a tidy summary of what you need to know...