This too shall pass.
Hopefully if any of you are having a tough day today, tomorrow, next week or next month you will keep these very powerful words in mind. Have a blessed day!!!
[...]edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
This too shall pass.
Hopefully if any of you are having a tough day today, tomorrow, next week or next month you will keep these very powerful words in mind. Have a blessed day!!!
[...]
I find it absolutely friggin' hilarious that when it comes to these budget fixes everyone wants to throw "shame" around.
The Dispatch says "shame on anyone who doesn't agree with us."
Strickland says "shame on the Senate, but please don't look at the hundred shameful things I've done to put" [...]
Our enfeebled governor much have taken his Metamucil this morning. Is he serious? Even in this video you notice his head shaking…
Isn’t it odd that he said cardiologist? No one asked him about his cardiac health. And it is often said people who answer their questions while touching their nose [...]
A PROCLAMATION
More than 60 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, declaring the "inherent dignity" and "equal and inalienable rights" of all human beings as the "foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." This self-evident truth guides us today. Although [...]
When I was first elected to serve in the House of Representatives, I made a promise to Ohioans that I would not accept the Congressional health insurance plan until all Americans had affordable health insurance. Even though I'm serving in the United States Senate now, I'm keeping [...]
Robert Reich in his blog expresses disappointment over the Senate’s emerging health care legislation. Reich says the legislation, if enacted, would create monopolies and would mean a continuing escalation of health care costs: “We end up with a system that’s based on private insurers that have no incentive whatsoever [...]
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle.
The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion [...]
Representative Jennifer Garrison, who is running for Ohio Secretary of State in 2010, took a direct shot at her Republican opponent, Sen. Jon Husted, by introducing legislation to restrict state lawmakers’ mileage reimbursements to only trips made between the Ohio Statehouse and their [...]
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy has a new spokesman.
Josh Rosenblum is stepping into the communication director's role for the Columbus Democrat. His background includes stints as communications director for Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez, D-Texas, and press secretary for Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
Rosenblum, 31, is a native of New York [...]
This is the fifth year I have looked into how the establishment media treats these two topics:
The use of “Christmas shopping season” vs. “holiday shopping season” (the AP photo at right uses “holiday” and not “shopping,” even though there is a C-C-, Chr-Chr-Christmas tree in the picture). The [...]
By the standards they utilize each and every day, this conspiracy should be obvious to any Teabagger or Beckerhead shouldn't it?
' [...]"You know, [...]
Two Franklin County-based organizations are getting money for home-foreclosure counseling from the state's settlement with a mortgage lender accused of improprieties, Attorney General Richard Cordray's office said.
The Columbus Housing Partnership and the Columbus Urban League are among the 14 agencies statewide to share in the $1 million [...]
A new poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that Republican John Kasich has opened a nine point lead against incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland in 2010 Ohio race for governor.
The telephone survey of 500 likely Ohio voters showed that 48 percent favor Kasich and 39 percent favor Strickland. Kasich held [...]
As world leaders busy themselves in Copenhagen this week grappling with the issue of climate change and attempting to craft a global solution, a company right here in the United States has developed a program that has the kind of legs to make sustainability a reality.
Climategate: Al Gore Falsifies the Record — Gee, you really want to give the guy even a small benefit of the doubt for intelligence, credibility, intellectual honesty, and sincerity. But when he tells an interviewer that “I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more [...]
Some of you have noticed on the left sidebar there is a link to a Facebook page for Glass City Jungle that I started a few weeks ago, it’s where I’m posting short notes and links to videos. Just a few moments ago I added video taken from my upstairs [...]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) disagrees. In 1994, the CBO said of an individual mandate to buy health insurance:
A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition [...]
Lindsay and I spend a few days last week in Cincinnati with members of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation at the organization’s Annual Meeting. The annual gathering of members, delegates, officers, and staffers serves a few functions, most critically the adoption of policies that guide the organization from one year [...]
I found myself stuck in a mile-long traffic backup this morning on Secor Road, as Columbia Gas crews repaired a half-dozen problems between Laskey and I-475. I grew increasingly agitated as my usual 8-minute trip to work turned into a 25-minute odyssey of aggravation. Of course, [...] A [...]
All the disgruntled anti levy voters can rest easy that it is quite possible that the schools will get the shaft if the Ohio State Budget Crisis is not fixed anytime soon.
According to the Columbus Dispatch the budget can be passed if one side can add things to the bill [...]
72 times.
t was just six weeks ago that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) decided he was fed up with empty, meaningless congressional resolutions. These largely symbolic measures are taken up all the time -- it's been routine fare for years -- [...] Posted: December 6, 2009
Quick action by school nurse and police officer saves teenager with undiagnosed heart condition
Victor Venegas remembers almost nothing about what happened to him last week at Broad Ripple High School — just that he didn’t feel good, his girlfriend was walking him to the nurse’s [...]
Last year, an estimated 61 percent of new businesses were launched by immigrants, according to a Babson College survey…Immigrants, who also account for 23 percent of established businesses, are anchoring downtowns in cities and remaking the suburbs across the region, launching businesses as varied as biotech firms, bridal salons, and [...]
Steaming Load of the Week Award: Another week, another pile of turds.
Turd 1: Chris "The Tingler" Matthews shows his true, traitorous rat bastard, colors.
In the throes of his leg-tingling man crush, that titanic turd, Chris [...]
A sponsor providing fir trees for the conference's Christmas trees learned this the hard way when it was turned away by planners of the international event, the Copenhagen Post reported.
The trees – the most common [...]
And another one who helpfully removed himself from the gene pool
A 25-year old Ukranian chemistry student had a rather odd habit of dipping his chewing gum into a packet of citric acid before chewing. The other night, the young man apparently dipped his gum into the wrong packet. The packet [...]
TMC NEWS PHOTOS / BRIAN WOODSThe powerful winds that blew through Wednesday are now off to bother someone else – we will still have some windy conditions but not as strong.
Throughout the day the winds brought down power lines, trees and just [...]
Avon - Gifts came early for the Lake Erie Crushers this holiday season with the acquisition of two talented pitchers, rookie Michael Raymond and former Tampa Bay Rays farm hand, Travis Risser.
Yesterday, I reported that Kevin DeWine pulled the plug on a potential endorsement in the race for AG. Tonight, Bill Hershey in the Dayton Daily News has the candidates’ responses:
Yost said he was disappointed but would continue working.
Mike DeWine said he was not disappointed.
“My focus [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner is bringing her Women's Forum series to the greater Cleveland area this evening at 7:30 when she stops at the Chagrin Falls Library (110 E. Orange St.) to talk with area women about issues such as health care, elder care and child care.
http://jenniferbrunner.com/index.php/events/womens_forum_in_cleveland/
Brunner [...]
Ohio Green Party Candidate for Governor Dennis Spisak announced today that in just one week another two states are passing Ohio in moving towards more Wind Turbines to produce renewable energies and jobs.
"California and even Wyoming announced plans to build wind turbine farms to make gains in renewable energy while [...]
Although I am far from a "young" Dem, I stopped in at the Cuyahoga County Young Democrats meeting tonight at La Boca, a Hispanic-flavored restaurant in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. I ran into CCYD president Curtis Thompson last Saturday and he invited me to come, so heck, why not?
First of all, [...]
President Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe endorsed Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in a fundraising e-mail for the Democrat’s Senate campaign.
“I get asked quite a bit what I think the most important campaigns in 2010 will be. And the Ohio Senate race is always near the top [...]
Did you know his daughter worked for the SEIU?
The poster boy for these two broken promises is Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. If you’ve never heard of Senator Brown he is probably most famous for being mistaken for an African-American by Rush Limbaugh because of his name. He is actually [...]
As a reference point, the material shared in the coverage of last week’s Agenda Review may be useful for those of you wanting more detail.
Appointment – Board of Community Relations (BCR) – confirmed with the exception of Ashford who voted no.
Appointments – Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) [...]
Nothing like a good game of chicken I always say!!!
I've been writing a bit about the potential "Gang of 5" that might be created if five Ohio GOP State Senators give Strickland (aka the opponent to the GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich and potential person who' [...]
Today during the wind storm I saw the street sweeper driving around. Think it will do any good in this weather?
[...]The Big Three, also known as the governor, speaker and Senate president, sat down together this morning but did not appear to make much progress in resolving the budget impasse.
I dont think we made progress this morning, said Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood. I find it very discouraging because [...]
September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967
