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The Kasich Wave and the Ohio Six
The Ohio Legislature has done their best trying to draw national attention this year, but they've remained the ugly step-sister to Wisconsin on virtually issue. While the lack of coverage has kept...
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Senate battleground polling shows imperative of protecting Social Security,...
Public Policy Polling was in the field in four Senate battleground states this month (Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and Ohio) on behalf of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy For America,...
View ArticleFirst Casualty of Ohio SB5??
Did not see anyone mention this on Daily Kos, and searched by the SB5 tag, so I thought I would bring this local story to the larger community. It seems like the backlash to Ohio SB5 may have it's...
View ArticleOH (R) Sen Majority Ldr Resigns-SB 5 Heat?
In the movies, Jimmy Stewart went to Washington as Mr. Smith. In Ohio, the republican Senate Majoity Leader is Jimmy Stewart, and it appears that he has had enough of governing and has resigned. The...
View ArticleJohn Kasich's Raid on Ohio, Part 8 with Sensitive John's Insult to 38 Million...
Ohio Governor, John Kasich, who as aanastasia pnastasia p so delicately puts it, Ohio Governor John Kasich reveals almost daily new facets to the arrogance, belligerence, and closed-mindedness that...
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RKBA: OT
Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us...
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Kasich Sinks Even Lower - Will the Legislature Follow?
Back on Monday, I released the Ohio District Index, and in the article, I tried to take some guesses at what kind of blowback Republicans were looking at in response to the right-wing policy agenda...
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Ohio opens all state lands to oil and gas drilling
The scorched earth Republicans in Ohio have opened up all state lands to oil and gas drilling. The impact will be extensive in the eastern half of the state where the Devonian and Marcellus shale...
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An Agressive Ohio 13-3 Republican Gerrymander
It's universal among Swingnuts, pundits, and Kossacks alike that Ohio is probably going to draw a 12-4 map, giving Ryan, Kaptur, and Fudge safe seats. The fourth seat will either be in Columbus or...
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Memorial Day weekend 2011 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...
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Flipping Maine: Paul LePage, Third Parties, and Democratic Weakness in New...
One of the more painful results from last fall was the election of Paul LePage in Maine, if only for its familiarity - in 2008 I watched Gaye Symington's gubernatorial campaign collapse over the fall,...
View ArticleA beautiful sight!! Van Wert County Wind Project.
We often drive from our West Central Ohio home up toward Van Wert, to meet my sister and her kids who live in Ft. Wayne IN. For the first time in many months, we actually drove all the way up into...
View ArticleOhio Redistricting: High in the Middle and Gerrymandered on Both Ends
It's no secret Republicans ate the Democrats' lunch in Ohio last year. In a state carried by now-President Obama in 2008, under half of the congressional delegation is now Democratic. It's also no...
View ArticleMy Cancer Did NOT Come Back ~ A Year Later
I am writing this on June 1st, 2011, two years to the day I last saw an oncologist. And a year ago when I last wrote the fir part, my story. You can find that here.. .http://www.dailykos.com/...* My...
View ArticleHow the Ohio Court Decision on RU-486 Set Back the Clock on Fifteen Years of...
A recent federal district court decision upholding a 2004 Ohio limiting the use and availability of RU-486 for early termination of pregnancy exacerbates the increasing intrusion of ideology into...
View Article'No On SB 5': Petition signing event in Ravenna
The latest on the citizen veto effort for Ohio's union busting anti-collective bargaining law. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
View ArticleObama touts auto industry recovery, jobs saved
President Barack Obama returned to the same themes as his stand-in last week, Vice President Joe Biden, who delivered a barn-burner on the dignity of work and the successful rescue of the auto...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (Endeavour lands, Atlantis rolls out...
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 ArticleThe Prehistory of the Next Possible Progressive Era
This Interview originally appeared on Truthout Thursday 2 June 2011 by: Keane Bhatt, Truthout At a time of acute pain for working people – when wages are stagnant, unemployment is high and levels of...
View ArticleThe New-Economy Movement
This article first appeared in The Nation Gar Alperovitz | May 25, 2011 The idea that we need a “new economy”—that the entire economic system must be radically restructured if critical social and...
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