Ariel Castro's lawyer claims two requests for psychiatric evaluations were...
If Ariel Castro's lawyer is to be believed, corrections officials in Ohio may have some serious explaining to do. This morning--literally hours after Castro was found dead in his cell--Castro's lawyer...
View ArticleNBC News: Fracking Conclusively to Blame for Ohio Earthquakes
From NBC News:Before January 2011, Youngstown, Ohio, which is located on the Marcellus Shale, had never experienced an earthquake, at least not since researchers began observations in 1776. However, in...
View ArticleFrom The Worst Urban River To Model Restoration Project-Cincinnati Mill Creek...
In 1992 the Ohio EPA knew that Mill Creek was in trouble when their first chemical and biological survey uncovered raw sewage driving levels of bacteria and viruses well beyond federal and state water...
View ArticleAustralia Going Backward on Marriage Equality while US and Other Countries Go...
Oops. Unlike much of the rest of the world, the prospects for marriage equality in Australia are about to take a nose dive.In the United States its been a wild ride these last few months, as all heaven...
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OH-Gov: Could A Conservative Third-Party Challenger Cause Trouble For John...
Things could get interesting in next year's Ohio Governor race: http://www.cleveland.com/... Republican Gov. John Kasich will seek re-election next year, likely without the fervent Tea Party support...
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Hellraisers Journal: The Fighting Women of the Michigan Copper Country
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother...
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Handful of states still debating Medicaid expansion
Map from The Advisory Board Company. Click on it to see it full-size.While most of the attention at the moment is on the impending launch the health insurance exchanges under Obamacare, there are still...
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OH-Gov: Ohio Coal Watchdog Explains How John Kasich (R) Forced Him Out
This story broke out this week: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/... George Elmaraghy, a top watchdog at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, says he was forced to leave his job for running afoul of...
View ArticleRigged Elections for Romney Revisited
Way back in Oct of 2012 I posted this statistical analysis of the Ohio Republican Primary precinct-by-precinct results.I just got off the phone with the Ohio Sect. of State's office and they say that...
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Still Think This is a Democracy? Dems Won the Popular Vote in 13 State...
By now you might have heard that Democrats won the popular vote for the United States House of Representatives yet we're still stuck with Boehner and the shutdown caucus. There is very good reason to...
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Your one stop Obamacare shop
In a mere 24 hours, the tea party town-criers have been reduced from dire apocalyptic warnings about the end of liberty and freedom, to whining ACA sites are loading slowly. The horror! That's an...
View ArticleThe Shutdown as covered by local news in Michigan and Ohio
So the federal government shutdown is upon us. How is that being covered in the local TV news? I'll begin with WNWO in Toledo, where the station's resident economic expert explains in What it means...
View ArticleOhio Healthcare – What is our strategy Governor Kasich?
Governor Kasich of Ohio has stated that Ohio won't participate in the ACA Medicare Expansion program and the state hasn't set up ACA Medical Insurance Exchanges. Well, Governor Kasich what is the...
View ArticleSteubenville High teacher indicted--most likely for helping in cover-up after...
Late yesterday, a grand jury in Steubenville, Ohio issued the first indictment since two football players at Steubenville High were adjudicated delinquent for their roles in a grisly rape last summer....
View ArticleShutdown: Blame Rick Snyder
I was struck by an article from AP in which the Midwest Republican Governors, among them Michigan's Rick Snyder, were pleading with the electorate not to blame them for the government shutdown. It...
View ArticleIndictment unsealed against first adult charged in Steubenville rape case
Late yesterday, William Rhinaman, the IT director for the Steubenville, Ohio school system, became the first adult to face criminal charges related to last year's rape there. He faced charges that...
View ArticleReady, fire, aim: Ohio officials implement statewide face recognition program...
Ready, fire, aim: Ohio officials implement statewide face recognition program without a whiff of public debate Two months ago, the state government in Ohio secretly implemented a face recognition...
View ArticleOhio GOP(!) Governor Kasich to Go Rogue on Obamacare?
This is interesting:Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is considering accepting Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in his state via executive order, his office confirmed to TPM, after the state legislature stymied...
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Ohio governor might expand Medicaid with executive order
Gov. John Kasich, in caricature. Ohio's John Kasich has been one of the handful of Republican governors who wants to ease state budget problems by taking the Medicaid expansion funds available under...
View ArticleOH Gerrymandering - LWV Detailed Analysis
For those of you who like to delve into the depressing detail of the 2012 election results caused by the extreme gerrymandering of swing states by the GOP after 2010, here is a detailed write up done...
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