Wisconsin Recalls: Offense and Defense
Each time I post I get a few hundred more in donations to defend unions in Wisconsin. We are on the verge of a sea change in Wisconsin, bringing together unions and progressives against the horrible...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (HIV/AIDS at 30 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 ArticleRedistricting Ohio – a sensible approach
Ohio is the quintessential swing state, with Obama winning the state in 2008 by 51.5% to 46.9% for McCain and 1.6% third-party candidates. Nevertheless, our current Congressional delegation is 5...
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Buckeye Bull's Eye: OH Redistricting
Although Republicans control Ohio redistricting, I cannot help but play around with Ohio and produce a new 16-district map of my own. My goal was pure and simple: to keep Dennis Kucinich out of...
View ArticleOur Biggest Fight: Wisconsin will rise again
We all have a lot on our plates. There are always many issues to discuss, fight for, fight against, think about. But right here, right now there is one fight that condenses them all into one clear,...
View Article'No On SB 5': Final weeks of the petition drive
There are less than two weeks left to gather signatures to get Ohio's anti-collective bargaining law on the November ballot for the citizen veto. Here are some details, as well as some notes on...
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Ohio: Campaign to repeal SB 5 collects over 714,000 signatures, 231,000 required
The campaign working to repeal the heinous anti-worker bill in Ohio has collected more than three times the required signatures to put a referendum to overturn the bill on the November ballot....
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Combined Netroots Nation and...
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 ArticleWhat Chris Bowers said.
Chris Bowers recently posted Think Big: Choosing the fights that build progressive power. He posited: We have to win elections in which people believe the outcome was determined by popular support...
View ArticleHe was fired because he was black, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do...
There's been a few diaries today about unemployment among African Americans, so I decided to post my experience with the subject. My experience was humbling, and changed the way I think about the...
View ArticleTornado Tuesday-Now with Flash flooding! MN, WI, IL, MO, KY, TX, MI, NC, VA
The low pressure system continues to slowly move across the country, dumping rain on already saturated areas. None of these watches are flagged as particularly dangerous situations-in fact the tornado...
View ArticleOhio's new budget: Giving to the rich, taking from everyone else
The GOP leadership in Columbus is about to give residents of the Buckeye state their first look at funding choices under doctrinaire conservative rule. It won't be a pretty picture. Cross posted from...
View Article15 Years for Shooting ex-Fiance
The Columbus Dispatch reports Assistant Prosecutor David Zeyen said Stredney confronted Hart in the parking lot of NCO Financial Systems on Frantz Road as he arrived for work on the morning of Dec....
View ArticleUPDATED/BREAKING- Kasich tries ANYTHING
Our evil governor's latest Machiavellian deceit: if the people rise up against you, then try to confuse the issue. In record time, the opponents of "Governor Opaque's" draconian union busting bill SB...
View ArticleWhat About Electing Better Republicans?
Earl from Ohio's post on the nefarious plans of his republican governor Kasich got me thinking--is there any benefit for democrats also to try electing better republicans? Earl notes that Ohio's...
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Summer Solstice 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...
View ArticleAdventures in Worker's Comp Part 01: It Begins With a Box
There are so many great diaries and diarists on DailyKos, who put things so much more articulately and succinctly than I. I finally registered not long ago so I could comment, but have read for...
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Go for Broke!
The 1951 war film, “Go for Broke!” introduced the American public to the nation’s most decorated regiment in the history of the U.S., the 442nd. It was comprised of mostly Japanese American soldiers,...
View ArticleOhio House votes to ban abortion
This afternoon, with three onerous anti-abortion bills on the agenda, the Ohio House of Representatives voted 54-43 for the most extreme one: the so-called "heartbeat bill" which effectively bans all...
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