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We need to liberate manufacturing from King Coal
If you're an old-school labor Democrat, a New Dealer watching the American Dream slip away, then you're probably desperate to bring jobs back to the United States. So you have to feel bad for the...
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OH-Gov: Ed FitzGerald (D) Tells John Boehner To End The Shutdown
Received this e-mail today from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald (D. OH) who is calling on fellow Ohioan Speaker John Boehner (R. OH) to reopen the government: If Republicans don't act...
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Hellraisers Journal: "A Woman's Story" by Annie Clemenc, reprinted from the...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother...
View ArticleOhio expanding Medicaid for 275,000 residents
GreatMixed news from Republican controlled Ohio: they're not attempting to sabotage Obamacare by screwing its residents and rejecting federal funds to expand medicaid. But they are using the new...
View ArticleOhio accepts Medicaid expansion
This is very, very good news. The plan means another 275,000 people get insurance coverage.Via the Toledo Blade (which by the way, is a great name for a newspaper):A little known budgetary panel today...
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Ohio Medicaid expansion approved
A legislative oversight panel in Ohio has approved Gov. John Kasich's plan to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, in an end-run around the state's Republican-dominated legislature which refused to pass...
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Right to Life chapters sue to prevent Medicaid expansion in Ohio
Conservatives, the joke goes, believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. Now, anti-abortion forces and their Republican allies in Ohio are doing their best to show that jest is true. As the...
View ArticleNews from the Land of Soybean Fields
The Kasich bus runs over RepublicansA couple of years ago, upon his inauguration as governor of Ohio, Republican John Kasich famously advised Ohioans to get on his bus, because if they didn’t they were...
View ArticleACA Apps/Signups top 600,000 - Help Needed Following 39 States
If you go to ObamacareSignups.net, you'll see that my own current tally now sits at over 600,000 either enrolled or at least with completed applications.Today's big updates:--the District of Columbia...
View ArticleKasich's Single-Wing Play Occasions a Lawsuit
The reviews have begun on John Kasich’s end run around his own Republican Party to bring more Medicaid coverage to Ohioans. Kasich being an old-fashioned guy, perhaps this should be characterized by a...
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Purple is the New Red: Campaign Sign Pictures from SW Ohio
I noticed something about the campaign yard signs as I was walking our dog the other night in our quiet neighborhood of Cheviot, Ohio.None of them were red. This may not seem odd until you realize that...
View ArticleI NEED YOUR HELP tracking ACA Applications/Enrollments
Things have stabilized a bit at ObamacareSignups.net, as some of the early speculative numbers are starting to settle down into actual, real-world figures.As a result, as of today, the tally for people...
View ArticleOhio Republicans endlessly creative about voter suppression update
Today I present a very short diary about voter suppression in Ohio, and some new Republican methodology.First, we have the Licking County BOE cutting the number of polling places in the county of about...
View ArticleUpdate x2: 34 HELPERS NEEDED to track ACA Applications/Enrollments
Things have stabilized a bit at ObamacareSignups.net, as some of the early speculative numbers are starting to settle down into actual, real-world figures.As a result, as of today, the tally for people...
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OH-Gov: John Kasich (R) Publicly Acknowledges His Party's War On The Poor
Well, at least he's acknowledging it: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/... Offering a frank assessment of how his fellow Republicans approach the issue of poverty, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) sounded a bit...
View ArticleACA breaks 720,000; HELP STILL NEEDED to track Signups!!
Things have stabilized a bit at ObamacareSignups.net, as some of the early speculative numbers are starting to settle down into actual, real-world figures.As a result, as of today, the tally for people...
View ArticleMore income tax cuts in Ohio? Good idea or not?
OHMYO. John Kasich has stirred up the kind of Republican opposition to an expansion of Medicaid that political observers might think was reserved for demonic Democrats only. The weapon of choice, as...
View ArticleUpdate: ACA Signups = 903,000...or 116,000...or 36,000.
Thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of ArcticStones in particular (along with help from the other state-watchers listed below the fold), the ObamacareSignups.net numbers are starting to jump...
View ArticleHELP STILL NEEDED: ACA breaks 900,000! (w/caveats)
Thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of ArcticStones in particular (along with help from the other state-watchers listed below the fold), the ObamacareSignups.net numbers are starting to jump...
View ArticleACA Apps/Signups Break 940,000! HELP STILL NEEDED!!
As of today, the ObamacareSignups.net tally now stands at 941,458. It's important to understand that sources and methodology for this sort of tracking is going to vary widely, depending on what exactly...
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