Exxon wants your clean WATER, to FRACK your State!
ExxonMobile has a sneaky fracking plan for the mighty and scenic DELAWARE RIVER that supplies the drinking water for more than 15 million Americans, including in NYC and Philadelphia. ExxonMobil...
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DK Elections Daily Digest: 5/9
Senate: • CT-Sen: William Tong, a 38-year-old state rep. who got his start in politics thanks to Joe Lieberman (and opposed punishing him after he endorsed John McCain and slagged Barack Obama in...
View ArticleSlave Labor, Prison Privatization, Prison Industry - ALEC Conservatives push...
Privatize, privatize, privatization of anything owned or controlled by the public or taxpayers is again being applied by Conservatives from coast to coast. Sadly through the manipulations of ALEC and...
View ArticleOneOhioUnited new GOP Astroturf group
A new ad has shown up on cable in Ohio from a group called OneOhioUnited. Which is advocating that we contact our state reps to get them to vote for their 'Ohio Jobs Budget'. Which is ironically...
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Photo walking and petitioning for SB5 repeal
Circulating petitions in Columbus, Ohio to repeal Senate Bill 5 takes me a bit off the beaten path. Here are a few photos from along the way. Free lunch every day at 11 o'clock at the C.R.A.C.K House...
View ArticleOhio House Bill 194 and Senate Bill 148: The Republican's Voter...
The latest attempt by the GOP to prevent distasteful outbreaks of democracy. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
View ArticleWhere Republicans want to take education
can be clearly seen in a biting column this morning by Gail Collins in The New York Times. In Reading, ’Riting and Revenues she takes us through what is happening in Ohio and in Texas. In the former,...
View ArticleOhio Redistricting: 12-4 Republican Gerrymander
Republicans in Ohio are defending a 13-5 delegation going into redistricting. Luckily for them, a narrow win by John Kasich has given them the trifecta, so they can do as much damage as possible. It's...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (Last Launch of Endeavour edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the past...
View ArticleMy Fantasy OH Dem Gerrymander
After trying to draw a very realistic Democratic 13-5 gerrymander of Illinois, I figured I would try out a fantasy map, and pretend that the Democrats controlled the trifecta in Ohio and could draw...
View ArticleOhio's Governor Kasich Makes Clear Which Side He Is On
A blog post from Stephen Herzenberg, originally published on Third and State. Our friend at the dynamic Policy Matters Ohio think tank, Amy Hanauer, has a powerful article in the most recent issue of...
View ArticleS. B 5 continues to drag down Ohio GOP
Quinnipiac just released it latest polls on Ohio: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/... "Ohio voters disapprove 49 - 38 percent of the job Gov. John Kasich is doing, compared to 46 - 30 disapproval in March,...
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New poll shows Ohio strongly favors repealing SB 5
According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a strong majority of Ohio voters favor repealing the recent Republican-backed legislation known as SB 5. Among many other heinous provisions, SB 5 strips collective...
View Article'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 19-May-2011
The latest on the citizen veto effort of Ohio's union-busting GOP measure. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
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Over 214,000 signatures gathered to repeal SB 5 in Ohio
SB5 repeal petition events this weekend (click to enlarge) This morning, We Are Ohio, the labor-fueled group dedicated to repealing SB 5, announced that they have gathered 214,399 of the 231,149...
View ArticleHaving That Conversation--The Tools You Need
In the past year our independent friends and neighbors have been drowned in high-priced propaganda, swept by the cash tsunami for at least a short time into a conservative fantasy land. One of the...
View ArticleALEC's Fixation on "Eco-Terrorism"
(If you don’t know what ALEC is, please see the links at the end of this diary.) A statement made in 2003 when Texas passed the ALEC “Eco-Terrorism” legislation noted … the language here is willfully...
View ArticleOhio as a court might draw it
We've seen maps of possible Republican gerrymanders and hypothetical Democratic gerrymanders. At one point someone said they'd like to see a neutral map, so this is attempt to simulate what a court...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (Rapture? What Rapture? edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the past...
View ArticleNew poll: Cutting Medicare, Social Security are non-starters in 2012 elections
Swing state Democrats need to stand up to the GOP's proposed plans to destroy Medicare and make huge cuts to Medicaid and Social Security, according to the latest polling from Public Policy Polling....
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