we think the people in akron, ohio, have a right to recall.re saying to the mayors to examine the statutes. these do cost money. $270,000 was spent on the recall. he has 13 years on the city council and 24 years as mayor. they did a recall. it cost the city to hundred $70,000. he won by 75% of the vote. you have a person involved in what i call "ego retribution." i have seen it and witnessed it. it is on hour documentary. it is not accurate. i went to akron and interviewed city council people disputing serious accusations put into the recall effort. host: we go back to the phones. our topic is mayoral recalls across the u.s. we're speaking with tom cochran from the u.s. conference of mayors. who is your mayor and how are they doing? caller: in 1978, the mayor was dennis to senate -- dennis kucinich who dealt with the city bonds. he had a three-year term at the time. in a huff 4-year terms. -- they now have four-year terms. in the recall, it was 60-40 or closer. the person who replaced him as mayor one year later was robert lloyd to bitch -- wa

. >> quiet, who i worked for at akron, he would always say, one of these days a mid level team is going to win it all. i said well, you're wrong, keith, i disagree with that. and when i was assistant coach, i knew everything. i had all the an answers. keith would remind me of that. he's exactly right. when you look at the runs that people have had over the last 6, 8 years, it's been close and butler was a bounce away from it last year. who knows, maybe one of us will win it this year. >> to baseball, where despite the nats opening day loss to the braves yesterday, there was reason for excitement. we're talking about those new guys, first baseman, adam laroche. they provided a big boost defensively. the $126 million man knows that with big money comes an even bigger leadership role with this team. >> obviously there's a responsibility taking on the contract and coming here to washington. i plan on being a leader on this team and help in any way i can to win bowl games. >> if we can keep it together in this clubhouse and stand behind each other and have the same attitude every day coming

conduct or revolution within the cradle party joining me to discuss it is david pacman host of the david akron show david thanks so much for joining us tonight for starters before we get into the real analysis here obviously everyone is still shaking their heads and wondering if donald is serious about running whether this all is just a publicist johnson n.b.c. executive in fact said that today said now this is just donald being donald but if you had to make an educated guess but he thinks he can run. i think it whether he runs or not he's not running to win i think he knows he's not going to win i know that the polls say that he's running tied for first or second or something like that i don't think he really has a chance of winning i think it's brilliant in terms of publicity he's carrying on the birth there's he's preying on the tea party even though why why are we hearing about his proposed one time fourteen percent tax that he proposed years ago that doesn't sound to tea party like to me it's a brilliant publicity stunt oh let's not forget to a couple years ago that he said that he suppor

gloria was arrested in 2006 for driving while intoxicated in akron. >>> the as had earlier tee timesn toronto than rory had in augusta. 9:30 a.m. local time on the wolf. 95.7. but, hey, if this little guy came to play so can the as. 1-0 in the 6th. jackson helping keep it that way. nice sliding catch to lind. r.b.i. base hit. 1-1 game in the 8th. jackson again. this time base hit left fields. coco crisp scores. as lead 2-1. just enough for trevor cahill. dominated. struck out seven batters only gave up a run on three hits, walked nobody through eight innings. bringing brian on to close it out. 2-1 win avoiding their worst start since 1987. >>> speaking of bad starts. you know terry francona's red sox 0-5 coming in to play. they found a new way to lose. down to their final out. grounding one off the pitcher. pinch hitter mcdonald overrunning second base. he is out. that ends the game. boston is 0-6. their worst start since 1945. >>> on saturday the giants will finally get their world series rings. they have waited since 1958. every other bay area team has been fitted with the exceptio

the 14 in the 49 both are down mission in the mission district i find people boarding at the akron likeishing in a barrel. i spoke to many people admitting to riding the bus but not paying the fare. it would not talk on camera but one told me to dollars is way too much to pay, was ok when it was a $25. another person told me they never pay and they have no plans to start now. now let's talk about the t line in the bay view for a second. the only trade listed as the worst line to find fare evaders. some people collect the t line shuttle because for many residents to use it to ride two or three blocks and they see absolutely no reason to pay $2 or what my mother used to call a halt skip and jump. in services go, still the roberts kron 4 news. if you have a comment or story idea for stanley, just email him at www.peoplebehavingbadly@kron 4.com. kron 4 news at 6:00 is coming up next. ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop with u-verse online and on

he could have been killed in anaheim, he could have been killed in akron ohio. he was killed in memphis, the capitol of the blues. so i began to kind of think about that and began to think about how do i make a book here that is and which memphis is a character in which you begin to understand the confluence of things that brought king to memphis, the garbage strike being the most obvious one, the whole background, the whole backdrop of memphis. he had come to memphis really because he was beginning to recruit for this jury ambitious and very controversial campaign called the poor people's campaign in washington. the idea was to take thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of poor people, african-americans but also from other backgrounds to washington and to build this account on the mall two pervvijze multi generational poverty, systemic poverty. was very controversial plan. he was getting a lot of criticism, and of course our good friend jay edgar hoover was a jury suspicious and thought it was communism will in some sort of subversive -- but can this sort of m

when she met smart, who was an assistant coach in akron, ohio, in 2004, she says she knew he would bet. >> didn't expect it this year. so it's nice in his second year as a head coach he had the opportunity to go this far. >> reporter: and she's been with him every step of the way since their wedding day in may, 2006. while sports reporters are telling the world about smart the coach, a asked maya about smart, her husband. >> he's a very compassionate person. a very family oriented person. he calls his mom every single day. >> reporter: while he builds his coaching career, maya has a successful career of her own. the harvard graduate is an entrepreneur and writer who's been published in major hag zones. >> vcu has been good to us. so i think this is a fantastic place to be. and i'm very focussed on our next step here. which is winning the whole thing. >> for more about "the early show," visit us at cbsnews.com. ,

host: akron, ohio. joe is an independent. your thoughts on this? go ahead.ler: we are taking the word of s&p and i do not know if they have any credibility. if you look get out they rated mortgage-backed securities three years ago. you know, they went to congress and they said that is just their opinion. people should take more -- take a better look into this situation and if they feel like they should invest in treasury bills and the u.s. government, then they should go ahead. the rating system is flawed. who is checking how they rate these things? host: joe, do you have concern over the nation's debt and deficit? caller: oh, yes, i have concerns over the nation's debt and deficit. host: put s&p aside, or the political aspects of s&p, do you think the debt-deficit situation warrants a warning and alarm? caller: you know what? i'm sorry. i really don't see the fire storm that is approaching. i see what s&p is saying. i do not see the united states defaulting on any debt that we have. we are a unique country and a unique situation. there's no other country wi

past 30 years, whether they worked in the steel industry in youngstown, ohio or rubber industry in akron, ohio and throughout the industrial midwest, many lost their pension. my grandfather retired in 1979, his pension was $379 and when he died it was $392. the new road map for the republicans does says for these people who are 55 and in the industrial midwest who have seen the diminishment of their wages over the last 30 years while the top 1% was going up, they're saying now they want to take the medicare program and just give some support to let the senior go out into the free market and buy their own medicare. so medicare is medigone. so now if you are a senior citizen in the united states under the ryan road map, not this ryan, the ryan from wisconsin, under his road map, the medicare program will give you money and it will not increase with the level of health care inflation, which is 10% to 15% a year, so they'll give you some money to go out and get your health care, but won't keep up with inflation and there will be no where else to go. these same people, these same people who o