Meet Reno Saccoccia: Steubenville’s head football coach.
A brief article in Salon.com provides a hint of what's to come from the Ohio AG office.http://www.salon.com/...
View ArticleThe most powerful thing I've seen today
One year ago a 17 year old student walked into the high school cafeteia in Chardon Oho and opened fire. When he was done, three students were dead, three more were wounded, one still now confined to a...
View ArticleHellraisers Journal: Young striker describes why she laid down her tools.
You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother JonesMonday March 23, 1903 Toledo, Ohio-Mother...
View ArticleHellraisers Journal: Time to register for Work Peoples College
You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother JonesTuesday March 24, 1903 Toledo, Ohio-Mother...
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The Link Between Glaciers & Rape in Steubenville, Ohio
Commentary is worth very little without context. More often than not, merely asking the how and the why of a given event is insufficient to understanding anything beyond a two dimensional facsimile of...
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When it comes to marriage equality, Boehner is the only worm in Ohio that...
Something else to make John Boehner cry ... Do you need more proof that the Republican Party is on the wrong side of history when it comes to marriage equality? Well, here's the latest from...
View ArticleNew National Monuments
This week President Barack Obama designated five new national monuments. National monuments are protected areas similar to national parks. While national parks are created by Congress, national...
View ArticleOxymoron of the day: Sustainable Shale Fracking
In lieu of tight federal and state regulations of the shale drilling industry, the industry is promoting "certification." Case in point is the new "Center for Sustainable Shale Development" (CSSD)...
View ArticleHow Hip Hip is Supposed to Sound
On today's #TWiBRadio, we're joined by master lyricist Jasiri X who offered a retort to yesterday's discussion of the state of hip-hop and we spend some time skewering our favorite talking butter...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Ashley Judd won't run for Senate, but...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •KY-Sen: Say what you will about whether or not it improves the Democrats'...
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Yes, There IS a Knowable Path to a House Majority: Redraw the Lines. Here's...
On Sunday, DailyKos' Steve Singiser had a diary out talking about the flawed premise of listing the 17 seats that would have to fall to form a path to a Democratic House majority and how such a list...
View ArticleUse Your Voice
One of the best lessons of the Occupy Wall Street movement was so simple, our moms used to tell us the same thing all the time. Remember when you were just learning to talk, and sometimes it was hard...
View ArticleDebtors' Prisons. They're Back.
Not content to already incarcerate a far higher percentage of their populations than anywhere else on the globe, many states of these United States are once again throwing people in jail for their...
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Hellraisers Journal: Students, Faculty, & Staff to Strike at Indiana U
You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother JonesFriday April 10, 1903 Eugene V Debs and the...
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Ohio Republicans replace Gov. John Kasich's bad budget with another bad budget
Bobby Jindal has company. Just days after the Louisiana governor had to admit that his massive tax overhaul was massively unpopular and wouldn't pass the state legislature, Republicans in the Ohio...
View ArticleSpeaking of Scandals
ABC TV's Scandal Series is presenting Presidential level election theft and assassination in a casual, matter-of-fact way. Even what one would have previously thought of as totally bizarre ideas, like...
View ArticleV.A. Backlog still causing hardship for one Ohio family
This diary was written by my Daily Kos friend and sister RNdebm. She is new to Daily Kos and cannot publish her own diary yet. She did write this diary about my wife and I. Please if you can leave feed...
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Did Gerrymandering Cost Dems the House? A 33-State Look at Alternative...
In the wake of the 2012 House of Representatives election, we were left with a situation where Democrats won the House popular vote yet failed to regain the House. While it is a documented phenomenon...
View ArticleStates Now Voting to Abolish Electoral College, About to Pass Halfway Point
A nationwide plan to abolish the electoral college is quickly making serious progress. Already, states with 132 electors have pledged their electoral votes to the winner of the National Popular Vote....
View ArticleOhioans: Take Action Now to Save Funding for Reproductive Health
On April 18, the Ohio House passed the execrable HR 59, the state's budget bill that would ultimately strip vital funding from Planned Parenthood and other family planning providers. The "poorly...
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