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Anti-abortion advocates prep to trample the rights of women
Republican lawmakers are getting ready to make a definitive statement on government regulation in 2015: they're all for it when it involves the right of women to make their own medical decisions. Now...
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Hellraisers Journal: Solidarity Forever by Ralph Chaplin Published by...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother Jones```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Saturday...
View ArticleOK, now the convention MUST come to Columbus
I am a Columbus area resident and would just LOVE to have the convention there for the '16 action.And now, there is no avoiding it, because Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream is on the case trying to pull in...
View ArticleDid My Piece on Coal Baron Murray v. Fracker McClendon Suit Lead To Sealing...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn December 12, Magistrate Judge Mark R. Abel issued an order for the U.S.District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to place five sets of court records under seal for...
View ArticleScientific Study Links Fracking with Earthquakes
For quite some time, environmentalists have speculated that fracking may be contributing to the rise of small earthquakes within states that participate, leading to studies in places like Oklahoma,...
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Scientists have proven that fracking has caused earthquakes strong enough for...
A new recently published study connects 77 earthquakes that hit Poland Township, Ohio for a week back in March of last year.“These earthquakes near Poland Township occurred in the Precambrian...
View ArticleBreaking: Man Arrested for Plotting to Poison Rep. John Boehner
WCPO-TV channel nine in Cincinnati reports on a man who was arrested after revealing he wanted to kill the Speaker of the House, Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio).The whole story is bizarre, but...
View ArticleBoehner's Would-Be Assassin a 'Wake-Up Call' to Republican Congress
On January 7, a federal grand jury in Cincinnati indicted Michael Hoyt, a bartender who had told police in October that he believed he was Jesus Christ, and that he had a loaded .380 Beretta handgun,...
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OH-Sen: P.G. Sittenfeld (D) Slams Portman (R) As "Mr. Trade"&“Architect Of A...
With talks about the TPP on the site recently, I figured I'd pass along this story. First off, looks like we have our first Democrat jumping into the race to take on U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R....
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Ohioans Stand Up in Force to Oppose Bailing Out Old, Dirty Power Plants
As coal plants around the U.S. become increasingly filthy and decrepit with old age, some utilities want ratepayers to pay billions of dollars to keep them running. We're already paying with our...
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Norwood, OH Mayor takes time off from job to fight "race baiting black leaders"
Mayor Thomas F. Williams, mayor of Norwood, Ohio, recently sent the following letter to the Norwood police department.His letter starts with the following:With recent events across the country, I feel...
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Congressman actually listens to women, reverses his stance on abortion
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan is one of a handful of Democrats in the House who has voted to restrict a woman's right to choose in the past. But in an op-ed penned yesterday, he makes it official that his...
View ArticleOHIO: Surprise visits find charter school attendance variances between 34%...
Are you shocked that there appears to be some grifting going on in Ohio's charter school funding? (That's a rhetorical question, of course)COLUMBUS, Ohio– Several Ohio charter schools have far fewer...
View ArticleIt's not just a big city problem. Ohio police lieutenant verbally abuses,...
Meet Eddie Wilson, Lieutenant of the Village of Wellsville, OH police department. He's a real sweetheart. Eddie and another policeman were recently caught on camera verbally abusing and threatening a...
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Swing State Poll: Clinton Ties Bush in Florida, dominates elsewhere
In Quinnipiac University’s first swing state poll of 2016, Hillary Clinton is just about deadlocked with Jeb Bush in Florida—where he was a two-term governor from 1999-2007—but beats him comfortably...
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Sixth Circuit Rules Employee Cannot Claim Religious Exception To Providing...
A federal district judge in Ohio, U.S. District Judge James Gwin, had ruled that a Christian fundamentalist cannot claim religious discrimination against a potential employer because he felt that...
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"I would rather stand in an unemployment line than harm the children in my...
Elyria 5th-grade teacher Dawn Neely Randall finally spoke out over fears of reprisal against the 20 hours of tests designed for Ohio public school students.From her Facebook post:Well, I did it. I...
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Standardized tests in Texas: It's like using a bathroom scale to measure height
Last week I posted an article about how some folks in Lorain County, OH, are fighting excessive amounts of standardized testing in Ohio.I didn't realize this would generate so much controversy. A few...
View ArticleIs John Boehner really the most “do-nothing” Speaker of the House in history?
As we look at John Boehner and what he has accomplished as speaker, or rather not accomplished, I believe he is the most “do-nothing” Speaker of the House in history. Recently he opened the 114th...
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Homeless woman in Ohio walks miles to court, determined to face rapist
Heartbreaking persistence from a 47-year-old homeless Ohio woman:The woman was sleeping under an E. Broad Street bridge that spans Big Walnut Creek just east of Hamilton Road when she was raped on the...
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