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Diminished Value
It seems to be open season on transgender people in Ohio lately. On Friday Brittany Stergis, 22, was found shot in the head in her car in a parking lot at a public housing facility. The parking lot...
View ArticleCredit, where credit is Due -- Obama rescued the Auto Industry
Despite the wishes of Mitt Romney to let Detroit Go Bankrupt -- the investments made in the Detroit Automotive Industry, forged by President Obama, have paid off in jobs and in Treasury Revenues. As...
View Article*UPDATED* Take Action! The REAL reason Republicans hate healthcare.gov
Last night, I applied for insurance on healthcare.gov. I'm one of those so-called "uninsurables" - insurance companies declined to cover me because I have... allergies (way!). So, while I was gratified...
View ArticleA new foreclosure menace
Aeon Financial. Remember that name. With the help of some big banks, Aeon has been buying up tax liens right and left in D.C., Maryland and Ohio. What does it do next? Stay with me after the ornage...
View ArticleFormer Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Buys Fracking Wells In Ohio's...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogFormer Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon is back in the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) game in Ohio’s Utica Shale in a big way, receiving a permit to...
View ArticleIs it altruism, or self-interest disguised as principle?
Businessmen constantly complain about regulation and the costs of same. I suspect the claims of big business are largely overblown. Does regulation cost? Yes, it does. Does it do more good than...
View ArticleSnow and Ice
Five things to love about snow and ice. 1. The seeming cleanliness of a monochromatic landscape. The sheen of an iced world.2. The hush. 3. Snowballs, snowmen. 4. Snow coating trees, icicles —...
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Ohio GOP finds no voter fraud conspiracy, but still pushes voting restrictions
Ohio's Secretary of State John Husted has been forced to admit that there is no conspiracy or organization behind voter fraud in his state, now that a review of the 5.63 million total votes cast in...
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OH-Gov: Ed FitzGerald (D) Puts The Pressure On John Kasich (R) To Stand Up...
Received this e-mail from gubernatorial candidate Ed FtizGerald's (D. OH) campaign who is pressuring Governor John Kasich (R. OH) to stand up for the unemployed in Ohio: Say you’re a worker who lost...
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How The "Right to Work" Movement Fell Flat On Its Face in 2013
A year ago, in one of the most shocking reversals in the state's history, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a "right to work" bill into law behind closed doors as more than 12,000 protesters raged...
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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Will Bring Gifts to the Strikers' Children...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother...
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Another Global Warming Day
One day past the Winter Solstice, after 34 hours of rain melted last week's half-foot of snow, the flooding Vermilion River rushes on its winding way to Lake Erie. This seems to be another global...
View ArticleAnother day, another major LGBT court victory - Ohio!
Haven't seen this diaried here yet. A federal judge in Ohio, Judge Timothy S. Black, has ruled that, under Windsor, Lawrence, and the Fourteenth Amendment, Ohio's state constitutional prohibition on...
View ArticleInteresting observation on same-sex marriage by Jeffrey Toobin
in a New Yorker piece titled Same-Sex Marriage, The Legal Deluge.He reviews the big decisions from NM and Utah, but things the real story was in Ohio, where Monday a Federal District Court judge issued...
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Two Huge New Fake Trade Agreements to Skirt, Stomp Democratic Sovereignty
During the "Progressive Era" of the early 20th century, many states passed laws– up to a complete ban with penalties against officers – to keep corporations from meddling in politics. Today, big...
View ArticleACA Signups: MS, OH, NM, MA, WY & a major one from CA!
Cross-posted at ACASignups.net. After kinda/sorta taking the day off yesterday, I'm happy to report that I have a whopping 6 new state updates today...including a BIG one for Medicaid enrollments from...
View ArticleMike DeWine: We Stand with Jim and John
When the Ohio Attorney General is sworn into office, he or she takes an oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution. So among many important responsibilities, the Attorney General’s...
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OH-Gov: Tea Party Leader Ted Stevenot Decides Not To Challenge John Kasich (R)
Dang, this would've been a fun primary to watch: http://www.politico.com/... Ohio's tea party movement will work to recruit a new primary challenger to Republican Gov. John Kasich after their first...
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Hellraisers Journal: Colorado Federation of Labor Meets in Convention to...
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View ArticleMy MIL heat is going to be cut off tomorrow.
So my wife came home from work today and tells me her mom told her that DP&L is going to cut her heat off tomorrow. Now this isn't the first time this has happened we've had to pay to get her heat...
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