Ohio will cut Planned Parenthood funding within a month's time
The state of Ohio will cut Planned Parenthood off from receiving any money from state or federal funds or block grants under a recently upheld state law that stops public funds from going to any...
View ArticleNew Ohio Poll of Democrats
The results of a recent poll were published in cleveland.com today, with a question asked to 428 Ohio Democrats in this traditionally swing state of what issues they believed the Democratic candidates...
View ArticleOhio Senate passes bill requiring burial services after abortions
The Ohio state Senate passed SB 27 on March 27 by a 24-7 vote along party lines. Only one Democrat—Sean J. O’Brien—voted along with 23 other Republicans to require that a woman getting a surgical...
View Article2020 state supreme court elections are key for stopping GOP gerrymandering in...
On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters appeared to have narrowly elected a strident conservative judge to replace a retiring progressive justice on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, although the Republican-backed...
View ArticleOhio's budget blacklisting of Planned Parenthood clinics could be a template...
Last month, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned lower-court rulings and gave Ohio the go-ahead to implement its 2016 law and cut off funding for all 26 of the state’s Planned...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: WI Supreme Court race deals likely blow to fight...
Leading Off●Wisconsin: Conservative Judge Brian Hagedorn holds a 50.25-49.75 lead over Judge Lisa Neubauer, the choice of progressives, following Tuesday’s officially nonpartisan race for the Wisconsin...
View ArticleOhio Congressman Tim Ryan, just became the 15th major Democratic candidate?
How will Tim Ryan be received? Will he be able to raise money? He says he want to help ordinary people do extraordinary things.Not a lot of specifics on policy. Where will he poll at?How many more...
View ArticleAnother Day in Trump’s America: 2 Ohio Teenagers Physically Assaulted by...
Two men were recently arrested for assaulting two northwest Ohio high school students at a Waffle House in Bowling Green, Ohio. These two teenagers had the nerve to try to have a meal at Waffle House...
View ArticleWhy progressives should be skeptical of the new effort in Ohio to elect the...
While the move to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has been making great progress in state legislatures nationwide, a mystery group in Ohio is pushing a different approach that...
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Road Trip Day 10. Indiana to Athens Ohio. Farms, Hills again. Meeting a...
We breakfast in Loogootee.John F. Kennedy Street. LoogooteeI love writing that name. Very good. We hit the road for a long drive today finishing Indiana and most of Ohio. We missed the Reds game. Boo....
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Arkansas GOP tries to block liberal ballot...
Leading Off●Arkansas: Angry that voters passed a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage in 2018, Arkansas Republicans are using their legislative majorities to put a constitutional amendment on...
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Ohio men can now legally rape their wives & force them to give birth....
The tagline for ACASignups.net is "healthcare policy data, analysis & snark", so naturally many of my blog posts have tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic headlines.This is not one of those times. The...
View ArticleThese abortion bans sound like they come from a dystopian nightmare—but...
Campaign ActionIn the span of just one month, four states—Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky—have all passed six-week abortion bans.Without legal challenges to block the bans, these bills would...
View ArticleLeBron James opened an experimental school for kids thought to be...
Less than a year after opening, a LeBron James-funded experimental elementary school for at-risk children appears to be proving successful. It’s too soon to fully quantify the impact that Akron’s I...
View ArticleBernie Town Hall Today at GM's Lordstown, Ohio Plant, Which Will Close On...
Today #BernieSanders will visit Lordstown, Ohio, where GM is shutting down a plant that will throw more than 5,000 people out of work. The ripple effect of these lost jobs will inflict more economic...
View ArticleBrain drain costs Ohio 2 more young Democratic Voters. How can we win without...
Ohio’s “brain drain cost the state 2 more young Democratic Voters. How can we win without them?While driving part-time for Uber/Lyft, I come across many new Boston residents. I met two young, native...
View ArticleSomething for Every Democrat ! Something positive about each candidate !
There are 20 candidates running now for the nomination of the Democratic Party for President: As an exercise, think about how many of them you are able to say something positive. That does not mean...
View Article'Some voters' are sick of profitable companies paying no corporate taxes....
The number of profitable companies that paid no corporate taxes doubled last year, thanks to the Republican tax law. Are you happy about that? Shockingly, “some voters are sick of it,” reports the New...
View ArticleTGIF in The Village 5.3.19
It’s been quite a week…Since we’ve gone to the “2 a day” format (miss you, SJohnson), I’ve tried to get an early jump on both diaries. I get my “shells” together (title/photo/monologue) on Monday. I...
View ArticleCourt strikes down Ohio gerrymander: GOP maps 'so skewed' they...
On Friday, a federal district court delivered a major win against Republican gerrymandering when it struck down Ohio's congressional map for violating the constitutional rights of Democratic voters....
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