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  • WHY SENIORS SHOULD BE THANKFUL

    At age 69, I’m not quite old enough to qualify for America’s “Greatest Generation” and yet I’m a bit too old to be a Boomer. But there’s one thing at least most of us geezers have in common these days:... [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:53am EST
    by dlore

  • POLITICAL PRIZE FIGHT

    THE KNOCKOUT RALLY The Ohio Democratic Party''s blueprint for victory Monday, November 23, at 6:30pm Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St. in Downtown Columbus At a time when many Democrats are hoping for at least a split decision in 2010,... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by dlore

  • SLING ROUTE BLUES

    Wonder why the newspaper business is in trouble? Take a look at the latest ornament hung high on the Pear tree next to our front porch. I thought I knew all the "paperboy's" hiding places along our 900-feet of rural...' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:15am EST
    by dlore

  • From Sunday's Newark Advocate

    Many have 'I've-got-mine' attitude about health coverage Americans react with horror when bystanders don't intervene to stop an attack on the weak and vulnerable. Yet we seem OK with the fact that millions of our fellow citizens are sinking into... [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:43am EST
    by dlore

  • BUSHWHACKED

    Before we forgive and forget the Bush administration for its sorry record, consider Daniel Gross' essay in Slate.com tracing how the stagnant economy during the Bush years produced the mess we confront today. http://www.slate.com/id/2235377/ Gross doesn't blame the Bushies for... [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:07am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • MAKING "NICE" WITH THE RIGHT

    We complimented Democratic Congressman Zack Space this week for showing courage in voting for the health care reform bill (and earlier for the Obama energy and environmental plan) even though he faces a tough election next year to hold his... [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:06pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • SPACE VOTES FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

    Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Every once in a while this typing exercise has application in the wider world, as it did last night as the U.S. House voted... [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:47pm EST
    by dlore

  • Change, For Better or Worse

    You wanted change? Okay, Tuesday, you got change. Some good. Some bad. But when it came to vital services, local voters for the most part were wise enough to stay the course. Good Change: Mark Johns 129-vote win over Republican... [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by dlore

  • Tiberi Votes No on Great Lakes Clean-up

    Congressman Pat Tiberi's opposition to health care legislation evidently applies as well to legislation to protect the health of the Great Lakes. Tiberi, according to the Nov. 1 Dispatch report, How Ohioans voted last week, joined most of his Republican... [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:36pm EST
    by dlore

  • STATEHOUSE CON GAME

    Where, in the midst of Ohio's ever-deepening "recession," can a down-and-out citizen be guaranteed not only room and board but free medical care, recreational opportunities and maybe even educational classes and/or psychological counseling? In prison, of course. And there are... [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
    by dlore

  • THE "GOOD" WAR?

    I slapped a “War is not the Answer” bumper sticker on my car years ago and yet until recently I accepted the argument that Afghanistan was one of those “good wars.” Canvassing door-to-door for John Kerry during the 2006 campaign,... [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • HOTTINGER'S CHEAP SHOT

    State Rep. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, would no doubt have been a big disappointment to former State Sen. Jay Hottinger. Seems our hometown boy, who campaigns every two years as "watchdog of the treasury," is now playing the same sort of... [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
    by dlore

  • PUTTING STATE MONEY TO WORK

    When I was a Statehouse reporter three decades ago, the role of the state treasurer was pretty much what you'd expect: scoop up the tax money collected by the Department of Taxation and deposit it in "friendly" banks and investment...' [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 10:00am EDT
    by dlore

  • TAKING DAUGHTERS TO WORK

    If you're looking for at least a brief respite from politics, check out the Dispatch business page today for reporter Tracy Turner's sweet feature on the newest flavor at Velvet Ice Cream -- pink power. The angle is the elevation...' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
    by dlore

  • TIBERI'S EXTENDED HAND

    It's good to see the usually-invisible Pat Tiberi getting some attention this week in the local media. Since 2001, this 12th District Republican congressman has stayed in office by being the stealth candidate as far as the general public is... [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:23am EDT
    by dlore

  • Blue Dog Tiberi?

    Our 12th District congressman, Republican Pat Tiberi, is all for health care reform, he says. Just not the sort of reform now moving towards decision in the Democrat-controlled Congress. Consider these excerpts from his posting at his website (http://tiberi.house.gov ):... [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
    by dlore

  • PUTTING LABOR BACK IN LABOR DAY

    (From Progress.Ohio, Working Families Win) Join Working Families Win this Sunday in Columbus for a panel discussion on the proposed law to give workers more opportunities to form a union. WHEN: Sunday, September 6, 6:00 PM WHERE: Ohio State University,... [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 9:55am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • BUCKEYE-BRUNNER BASH

    Cheer on the Buckeyes and the Brunner campaign on Saturday, Sept. 19, at a Brunner Buckeye BBQ hosted by Garry and Mary Ellen Goldsmith at their home, 500 Woodland Dr. in Heath. Donations requested. For details or RSVP, call 740-522-5610... [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:58am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • STONE AGE POLITICS

    Can't wait to see what Ohio's "Stone Age 5" have to say on energy and environmental reform? Check out this preview at: http://www.progressohio.org/page/s/stoneage5 In case you missed Monday's post: REPUBS RALLY AT OSU: WHAT: Town Hall Meeting with Congressman John...' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

    KENNEDY TRIBUTE/HEALTH CARE FAIR: WHAT: Tribute to Senator Kennedy: Health Care Rally and Action Fair WHERE: The Lausche building at the Ohio Expo Center - Ohio State Fairgrounds, 717 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43211 WHEN: Tuesday, September 1, 7... [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:45am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • THIS CAT IS OUT OF THE BLOG

    Cats supposedly are entitled to nine lives but nobody ever mentions retirement as an option for geriatric Toms. No matter. Take this as public notice that I, Gray Hunter, am retiring.....from politics, from blogging, from the whole messy and time-consuming... [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
    by dlore

  • BROOKS PICKING UP SPEED

    Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks was a surprise visitor yesterday at the Licking County Democratic Party picnic in Newark. Brooks, currently president of the commission, has announced her candidacy to oppose Republican incumbent 12th District Congressman Pat Tiberi in next... [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:32am EDT
    by dlore

  • TIBERI'S THUMBS-DOWN VOTING RECORD

    The following is a reprint of a guest column by David Lore in today's Newark Advocate. ...................................................................................................................... Congressman Pat Tiberi gave it the old Buckeye cheer when he spoke last April 22 at a Capitol Hill breakfast hosted by the... [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 11:02am EDT
    by dlore

  • STAR-MART

    Here, from resident song-spinner Ed Chamberlain, is something to contemplate as you gaze up at the late-summer night sky. But don't dismiss this as science fiction. Future astronauts will need health coverage out there, and who'd want to camp out... [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 11:28am EDT
    by dlore

  • HEALTH CARE FIGHT MAKNG YOU SICK?

    It's not like any of us want to hear more about health care reform right now, but since it's an issue that's not going away (at least before Thanksgiving) we might as well stay as well informed as possible. An... [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:57am EDT
    by dlore

  • Food for Thought

    Politics got you down? Want to get back down to earth? Licking County Democrats heard last night from several organizers of an ambitious community garden program to help make available healthy local produce to area food banks and to those... [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 11:11am EDT
    by dlore

  • JUST SAY "NO" TO REP. TIBERI

    Our 12th District congressman, Republican Pat Tiberi, tells us that his newly announced challenger, Democrat Paula Brooks, "is miles away from the values that the district cares about," according to the Dispatch. Brooks, a popular Franklin County commissioner, revealed her... [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 2:58pm EDT
    by dlore

  • SPACE: GET IT DONE, GET IT RIGHT

    Congressman Zack Space, negotiating a tightrope on the health reform bill, said yesterday he hopes to support final passage this fall but isn't ready to commit yet. Speaking to supporters at a fund raiser in Heath, the second-term Democrat called...' [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:26am EDT
    by dlore

  • BLUE DOG UPDATE

    It appears, at least on the basis of CNN's coverage this evening, that "Blue dog" and 18th District Democratic congressman Zack Space has won at least a temporary victory in his efforts to reform the pending health care reform bill.... [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
    by dlore

  • Dog Fight in Heath on Monday?

    One Southern Republican has predicted that health care reform will prove to be Barack Obama's "Waterloo," a reference to Napoleon's decisive defeat by the British in 1815. In fact, in any battle, the emperor usually escapes to fight another day.... [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
    by dlore

  • HEALTHY DEBATE

    TWO VIEWS ON THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE DEBATE: I am a supporter of change in health care...however... I am very concerned about the messages being used to sell health care. The sell is missing the message to a large group... [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 11:30am EDT
    by dlore

  • COMING UP

    Tuesday, July 14: Licking County Democratic Club meeting, 7 p.m. at the LC Administration Building on the Square (next to Wendy's). Saturday, July 18: Summer social and Green Living Forum planning session sponsored by the Licking County Democratic Women's Caucus,... [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by dlore

  • ZACK SHOWS BACKBONE

    Lost in the avalanche of grief and gossip over the death of pop idol Michael Jackson was House passage yesterday (219-212) of the omnibus energy and environmental bill by a narrow 7-vote margin. And Licking County progressives should note -... [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 11:14am EDT
    by dlore

  • PICNIC IN PATASKALA

    You are invited to our Picnic to show your support for Jennifer Brunner’s US Senate Campaign http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/ Sunday June 28 1:30 PM Video conference with Jennifer at 2PM Grace & Art's 4018 Courter Rd., SW Pataskala OH 43062 RSVP’s requested... [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 10:39am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • COMING UP

    June 19-20 : The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network will host a booth at the Columbus Pride Festival on June 19 and June 20. They need your help to run the booth and get out the word about the campaign to... [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • FORMER DISPATCH REPORTER HONORED IN D.C.

    "Good-Bye Columbus" seems to have worked out well for former Dispatch investigative reporter Mike Berens. Watching C-Span coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday, waiting for President Obama to do his stand-up, I was surprised to see/hear Berens...' [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 5:29pm EDT
    by dlore

  • WHY YOU'RE READING PD STORIES IN THE DISPATCH

    Hard times in the newspaper business are forcing old foes to cooperate, a trend that will only increase in coming years, Dispatch Editor Ben Marrison told a local journalism group last night. If you wondered, for example, why the Dispatch... [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 11:29am EDT
    by dlore

  • SPACE ON BOARD FOR FISHER

    18th District Congressman Zack Space climbed aboard the Lee Fisher Senate Express today, issuing the following statement (cash solicitations omitted). While certainly no shocker, Space's endorsement just adds to the recent bad news for fellow Democrat (and Ohio Secretary of... [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by dlore

  • CORDRAY RALLIES LOCAL DEMOCRATS

    Republican party leaders put the nation at risk by pursuing "short term political gains" in their blanket opposition to the Obama administration agenda, Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray said last night. Addressing the Licking County Democratic Club's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Cordray... [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by dlore

  • Ode to the Great Right Hunter

    Today we happily welcome a new writer to licopac.org, Ed Chamberlain, whose droll tastes range wide, from politics to fantasy (the difference being???)...let us (and Ed) know by comment whether you want to see more of his work. To Sarah... [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 9:55am EDT
    by dlore

  • ATTY. GEN. CORDRAY SPEAKING HERE WEDNESDAY

    Want to hear more about Ohio's response to credit card abuse, internet scams and domestic and teen violence? Check out the links below -- and come out Wednesday (the 29th) to hear and see Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray at... [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
    by dlore

  • ZACK SPACE WINS THE FUNDRAISING RACE

    (From OPENERS, the Plain Dealer political blog) Posted by By Sabrina Eaton/Plain Dealer Washington Bureau April 15, 2009 17:11PM WASHINGTON - Which Ohio members of Congress think they're on Easy Street and who's already nervous about 2010? Eyeballing their campaign...' [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 11:19am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • OBAMA GRASSROOTS EVENTS

    (from http://my.barackobama.com) Itching to get re-involved? Anxious to see some local response to the Republican campaign of NO? Wondering how to reconnect with the folks you worked with during the campaign? Have something to say about what direction the grassroots... [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 10:26am EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • ATTY. GEN. CORDRAY HERE APRIL 29

    The Licking County Democratic Club will host Ohio’s new Attorney General, Richard Cordray, at the 2009 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner 7:00pm, Wednesday, April 29. The Democrat get-together will be held at the GPPA Hall, 350 Hudson Avenue, Newark. Richard Cordray was... [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • NO PORK FOR PATASKALA?

    Anxious about earmarks, those Congressional pork rinds inserted by individual legislators in appropriation bills to benefit their home districts? Well, Congressfolk for the first time this year were required by law to post their earmark wish list on their websites... [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • WE NEED "WHO" AS WELL AS "WHAT"

    If newspapers want to survive, they need to provide information quickly and efficiently that readers are not likely to obtain easily from other media. Today's Dispatch, for example, has a "good news" piece by syndicated columnist Tom Teepen about final... [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 11:53am EDT
    by dlore

  • EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENCE PAGES

    You may have noticed that the Tuesday science pages (2) in the Dispatch have been downsized this month to one page, now running Sundays in the Insight section. Some of us find this disappointing, since there will be less space... [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 11:37am EDT
    by dlore

  • MORE ON BRUNNER & KENNEDY

    (www.licopac.org broke the news last Sunday that Ohio SOS Jennifer Brunner was courting support from Caroline Kennedy in her bid for the U.S. Senate. Thanks to Dave Harding at www.progressohio.org for this follow-up) "New York - One of America's most..." [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • DIRTY COAL, FORGOTTEN WARS, LOST DOG

    Ohio runs on coal so it's no wonder Ohio legislators are reluctant to give ground on the "black gold" which produces 84 percent of the state's electricity. And there's some evidence from Barack Obama's Tuesday night news conference that the... [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 4:28pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • BRUNNER SEEKS KENNEDY SUPPORT

    U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner will be in New York Thursday to meet with Caroline Kennedy but first she came to Newark on Sunday to connect with many members of Licking County's female power base. Brunner, Ohio's secretary of state... [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
    by dlore

  • IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!

    I hope the folks who think they can get all their news from TV caught Lou Dobbs' interview with Governor Strickland this evening on CNN. Strickland was obviously nervous, but still upbeat about Ohio's prospects during this "Great Recession." He...' [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • OUR HEROINE FROM HOMER

    The spirit of Victoria Woodhull can be felt at The Buckingham House this month. The 19th Century suffragette was among notable Licking County women brought to center stage by actors last weekend (March 14) during a county Historical Society luncheon... [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • JENNIFER BRUNNER IN NEWARK ON SUNDAY

    Ohio Elections Chief Jennifer Brunner will address the issue of women in politics on Sunday, March 22, during a 1-4 p.m. reception to honor Licking County women in public service. Brunner, the first woman elected Ohio Secretary of State, is... [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
    by dlore

  • LAYOFFS AT THE DISPATCH

    Amid the widespread carnage in the economy, the news of lay-offs at the Dispatch hardly causes a ripple. http://blog.dispatch.com/blog-36/2009/03/it_wasnt_supposed_to_be_like_this.shtml Except for those, of course, whose lives have been tied to the newspaper as a profession -- and an addiction. The... [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • BETTER DAYS AT THE N.Y. POST

    The controversy last week over the disgusting, anti-Obama "chimp" cartoon in the New York Post pained me, but not only for the reason you might think. As much as I like to see the right-wing media being called out for... [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 5:45pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • DO OUR BANNERS STILL WAVE?

    Traveling to Northwest Ohio this week, I still saw a few "McCain-Palin" and "Obama-Biden" yard signs, banners of campaigns now nearly four months behind us. But those aren't the only political signs wintering over in somewhat permanent display. In Licking...' [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 4:30pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • SLAM DUNK FOR OBAMA

    President Obama didn't dazzle like Michael or LeBron on the court of the Congress last night. His phrases didn't soar like a Jordan jump shot or have the power of a Jamesian drive to the basket. Instead, the president this... [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 9:25am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • TIBERI NOT "STIMULATED" TO BREAK RANKS

    Our 12th District Congressman, Pat Tiberi, was partly right last night when he declared during a brief television interview that the Obama stimulus bill was "a missed opportunity." Tiberi, a Delaware County Republican whose district includes part of Licking County,... [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 2:08pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • OHIO'S BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

    On Sunday a New York Times article reported on some of the more ambitious construction projects around the country being proposed as a way to soak up of those hundreds of billions of dollars in Obama economic stimulus funds. None... [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 1:08pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • TAX CUTS AND TOXINS

    After a week of monastic chanting by congressional Republicans for tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts, it was refreshing to see Dispatch columnist Joe Hallett include this as one of his prescriptions for a healthy America: • "If you want..." [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 5:44pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • HEART ATTACK

    Even after 46 years of marriage, Valentine's Day fills me with "performance anxiety." Will I be ready Valentine Morn with card, candy, a gentle kiss and -- hopefully -- something else not too boring? Is a book considered boring? (My... [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 11:51am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • THE GREAT ROOSEVELT DEPRESSION

    If you need convincing that Ohio schools (and politics) need an upgrade, check out page B8 (a classified ad page) in today's Dispatch for this curious little item: "U.S. Rep Steve Austria said he supports a scaled down federal economic..." [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 11:39am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • PROGRE$$IVE RADIO

    That's not a typo in the headline. Progressive Radio, it turns out, is not likely to be available to central Ohio (and especially Licking County) listeners in the future unless the progressive community here can make a sizeable down payment... [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 3:10pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • LEE FISHER'S PROGRESSIVE ROOTS

    An audience of several hundred activists were still scrounging for their coffee Saturday morning at Ohio State University when the opening speaker, indistinguishable in sweatshirt and jeans from the rest of the crowd, took the stage at rootscamp 2009 to... [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 2:36pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • DARWIN: A BUCKEYE AT HEART?

    I remember reading some years ago that George Washington, although a Virginian, often thought about moving back to the Ohio frontier because of his fond memories of working here as a surveyor in his youth. Now, in the New York... [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 10:26am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • TRIPLETS FOR TIBERI

    Congratulations from LICOPAC to the Tiberis, Pat and Denice, on the arrival last month of triplet daughters. Details and pixs now posted at the Tiberi web site: http://tiberi.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109956 This gives Congressman Pat four daughters, a joyful but also a fearsome... [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 10:51am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • BAD TIMES CAN BE BEST TIME TO ACT

    I wrote last week ("Snow Day Shocker") how thrilled I was that Gov. Strickland's State of the State message was chocked full of optimism and hope for the future of Ohio and it's public education system. It was such a... [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 1:15pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • STORMY WEATHER

    This weekend the icy roads, the snow and the Superbowl provide the perfect excuse to -- literally -- chill out and enjoy the last days of January hibernation.But next week, it's back to work. When schools close because of weather,... [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 3:08pm EST
    by dlore

  • SNOW DAY SHOCKER

    Imagine the horror of an Ohio teen, enjoying that greatest of all gifts, the January snow day, lazily prowling the channels in search of Hannah Montana only to click on to Governor Ted Strickland delivering his State of the State... [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 7:01pm EST
    by dlore

  • RACHEL MADDOW PLUGS LICOPAC (sort of..)

    As I write this, Barack and Michelle are -- in Rummy's phrase -- enduring the "long hard slog" of 10 inauguration parties. Washington D.C. seems a long way from Licking County, Ohio, where the January temps seem stuck near or... [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 10:08pm EST
    by dlore

  • INAUGURATION WATCH PARTY IN GRANVILLE

    Add this to the list for Tuesday: Tuesday, January 20 from 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM Location: Granville Public Library's Community Room 217 E Broadway Granville, OH 43023Directions: The Granville Public Library is located in downtown Granville, across from CVS... [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 11:36am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • LICKIN' LIBERALS LIKIN' OBAMA

    Years from now, your grandchildren will ask you where you were on January 20th, 2009, when Barack Obama was sworn in. (Campaign for America's Future) Years from now, I'll be too old to remember where I was on Jan. 20,... [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 11:54am EST
    by dlore

  • SPARE ME AN OBIT ON THE WEB

    I admit it, I'm a paper guy having trouble evolving to a digital world, My daughter, like her dad a veteran of the vanishing newspaper trade, nevertheless seems completely happy going paperless. She left the Atlanta Constitution to become a... [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 12:31pm EST
    by dlore

  • LESSONS ON INEQUALITY

    I certainly hope that I'm not the only central Ohioan who noted that the first place award in The Nation's Student Writing Contest went to Columbus Alternative High School senior Laine Allison Zalac. An excerpt from Zalac's piece gives you... [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 11:35am EST
    by dlore

  • 2009: TESTING A TOE IN MURKY WATERS

    Not being one to pre-judge, I decided to give 2009 a week-long trial visit despite all the dire warnings. Well, the week is up and ... I've decided to stick around. So far, the Good Stuff: It really can't be... [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by dlore

  • Big Ten Nation

    If change is the name of the game, we might all look beyond our relatively cautious President-elect to the forecast of Russian strategist Igor Panarin who predicts our 50 states will abandon the Union in 2010 and dissolve into regional... [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 11:47am EST
    by dlore

  • MIDNIGHT REGULATION

    I work in the IT profession. The majority of my work consists of helping large companies sift through huge quantities of data to determine the best approaches to marketing and customer service. Some people I know think this is immoral.... [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2008, 10:00am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • RADIO DAYS

    At Christmas each year, it's "over the meadows (of Kentucky) and through the woods (of Tennessee) to Daughter's house in Georgia, nerves jangling all the way to the voice of Right-wing howler Rush Limbaugh. About 50 miles south of Columbus,... [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 10:45am EST
    by dlore

  • SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD TO GET A CAR LOAN

    Watching President Bush this morning announce his decision to extend a $13.4 billion bridge loan to General Motors and Chrysler, I only wished somebody else was in charge. No, not Barack Obama. Not yet. What’s called for now is not... [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2008, 3:44pm EST
    by dlore

  • MOVING ON

    We know that Barack Obama on Nov. 4 became the leader of the party. The question now is whether that's the Democratic Party, the Obama Party or some cobbled-together combination of the two. The new President-elect is still more than... [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 12:36pm EST
    by dlore

  • BARACK'S JUNKER

    According to the on-line magazine, SLATE, more than a few swing voters have learned to trust Barack Obama because Barack and Michelle once drove a car so far gone that they could see the roadway rush by through a hole... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 12:13pm EST
    by dlore

  • DOWN -- BUT NOT OUT

    Dave Robinson got his first taste of politics this year -- and evidently liked it. Even though Robinson, a Columbus businessman and environmentalist, lost in his bid to oust four-term Congressman Pat Tiberi, the Democratic newbie sounded Sunday like he'll... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2008, 12:25pm EST
    by dlore

  • Obama: He Can Shoot But Can We Score?

    Progressives have been playing defense so long that now, when they're finally back on offense with a new quarterback, they're not sure they can score. "We're still in the glow, but I'm afraid we don't see the challenges ahead of... [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2008, 10:31pm EST
    by dlore

  • AXIS OF CHANGE?

    Will Barack Obama's election lead to the rapprochement with Iran, the last remaining outlaw state under the so-called "Axis of Evil" targeted by the outgoing Bush administration? Journalist and Iran expert Barbara Slavin is cautiously optimistic. Both the U.S. and... [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 9:51pm EST
    by dlore

  • NO SLACK FOR OBAMA

    Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has learned over 60 years of reporting tobe skeptical of our nation's leaders, and she's not about to change for Barack Obama. "We don't have to worship at the shrine of any president," the... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 9:56pm EST
    by dlore

  • Those good-old, robo-calling days

    If the news has you confused, skip the editorial page and go directly to the funnies. I depend, for example, on ZITS to explain the behavior of my teenage grandson. And when it comes to politics, Garry Trudeau at DOONESBURY... [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 10:22am EST
    by dlore

  • HANGING CHADS

    For two days now, heavy tanker trucks have been rumbling up and down my rural road, hauling pig manure from a nearby feed lot to juice up farm fields to the west. The ground shakes, the air smells, we can't... [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 10:18am EST
    by dlore

  • GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS ELECTION

    Tuesday's election marked an historic shift for the nation but -- unfortunately -- just more of the same for Licking County. The whoops and shouts were loud and sustained last night at the local Democratic election party at the Center... [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 10:52am EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • THE CHANGE THAT "I" NEED

    After nearly two years of living inside the political bubble, I need a change -- and not just one at the White House and Congress. Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty and now Gray Hunter have just revived from the... [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 4:00pm EST
    by dlore

  • “Trickle Down”

    By David Keech Back in the 1980’s, those of us on both sides of “the pond” who cared about the plight of ordinary people, especially ordinary people defenseless against attacks on their quality of life, were rightly concerned about the... [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 5:29pm EST
    by Licking County Pro-Active Citizens

  • TIBERI BACK TO OLD TRICKS

    From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelley-bellwenzlaff/trick-or-treat-congressio_b_139351.html Its Halloween kiddies and lots of treats are in store for voters fed up with congressional tricksters. Today's scary story comes from the 12th congressional district of Ohio, where baby faced "family values" incumbent Pat... [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2008, 2:39pm EDT
    by dlore

  • WAITING FOR SARAH TO CALL

    Since I returned from New York City earlier this week, my phone has been ringing off the hook with robo-calls from the McCain-Palin campaign. How disappointing! John, Sarah, if you can't do it right, don't do it at all. Let... [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 10:31am EDT
    by dlore

  • True Socialism

    The following, from David Keech of Newark, reinforces my reaction that all the GOP hysteria about galloping socialism feeds on the fact that most Americans don't really know much about what socialism is or how it works. (Gray Hunter) By... [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2008, 5:31pm EDT
    by dlore

  • October Dandelions

    We're talking campaign yard signs today, which have sprouted just about as fast (and sometimes ugly) as dandelions in Spring. Presidential campaign operatives usually try and discourage the insatiable demand for yard signs, since they want to spend their money... [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 9:32pm EDT
    by dlore

  • Dispatch flip-flop on Robinson ethics complaint

    The Dispatch continues to -- how do I say this nicely? -- screw up its coverage of the 12th District Congressional race, mostly by neglect but now also by printing false information about the Democratic candidate, David Robinson. Which is... [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2008, 10:20am EDT
    by dlore

  • A POLITICAL PEPPER SPRAY (PPS) for (Th) 10/16/08

    Judgment The self-righteous wing for McCainrestrains his brand* with a choke chain;though his judgment revealshe will make any dealsto win presidential campaign. Line 2: *brand = "Straight Talk" -- A Political Pepper Spray (TM) Poem by Hummingbird-----------------------------------------------------Good Day, Licopac Readers:==========================Social... [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 9:17pm EDT
    by dlore

  • ANOTHER SPLIT DECISION

    Round 3 of the Presidential campaign debate series played out like round 15 in a heavyweight prizefighter match, as Republican John McCain threw a last-minute flurry of jabs, a knockout punch being his only hope against Democrat Barack Obama who... [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 12:02am EDT
    by dlore

  • RED POLITICS IN THE BLUE GRASS STATE

    What a difference the Ohio River makes!A weekend trip to Kentucky made me realize what it's like to live in a non-battleground state.Over hundreds of miles, from Jackson in the eastern part of the state to Cumberland Falls in the... [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 1:15pm EDT
    by dlore

  • SEN BIDEN AT OSU-N WEDNESDAY

    This Wednesday, October 15th, please join Sen. Joe Biden in Newark, OH, where he will talk about Barack's vision for creating the kind of change we need. Adena Hall Athletic ComplexOhio State University, Newark Campus1179 University DriveNewark, OH Wednesday, October... [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 9:43am EDT
    by dlore

  • LEE HAMILTON AT DENISON TONIGHT

    Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, will be speaking on "Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next President" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Swasey Chapel, Denison University. Here is a link to the press release:http://www.denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/pressreleases/hamilton_dls_20081014.html Claire LenenskiSecretary, Denison... [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 9:23am EDT
    by dlore
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