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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:32am EDT
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• Republican Law and Disorder ...

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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:23am EDT
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• Red State Update: George Tenet's Sorry-Ass Book ...

  Red State Update: George Tenet's Sorry-Ass Book [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:23am EDT
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• Republican Law and Disorder ...

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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:23am EDT
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• Republican Law and Disorder ...

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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:22am EDT
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• Tommy Thompson believes business should be able ...

  Tommy Thompson believes business should be able to fire gays [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:18am EDT
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• Republican Law and Disorder ...

  Republican Law and Disorder [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:18am EDT
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• Tommy Thompson on the American Right to ...

  Tommy Thompson on the American Right to Fire Gay Americans [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:18am EDT
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• Republican Law and Disorder ...

  Republican Law and Disorder [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 3:18am EDT
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• It Is NOT the Economy Stupid

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  DPS Levy backers lament their loss in their quest for more of the taxpayers dollars.  They blame the loss on "asking for too much" and the  "dfficult economy". I is NOT the economy stupid.  Voters want a better school system. "We heard the community," school board member Gail Littlejohn said. "The ask was [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2007, 2:40pm EDT
  by dayton

• Ex-official repays state after being confronted

  After she was defeated in last year's GOP primary, former state Treasurer Jennette Bradley spent $1,200 in taxpayer money to update her personal resume. Bradley also signed off on spending $5,150 for 23 treasurer's employees to attend a career consulting seminar. The topics included "professional resume development" and "cover letter design [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2007, 10:27am EDT
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• The Three Amigos Support Hate Crimes

  Boehner, Hobson and Turner do it again! This time they voted against the recently passed Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2007. A summary of the legislation can be read below the fold. Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2007, 6:45pm EDT
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• Pack Your Lunch

  That's the message Ohio's lunch-bag-toting governor sent thousands of state workers Thursday in setting new limits on when taxpayers' money can be spent on food and drinks for agency meetings and gatherings. "Those of us who serve the public must continually remind ourselves that wasted dollars take needed resources away from [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2007, 8:02am EDT
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• Ohio's P-Check Creates Controversy

  It started with a draught of fecal water over the weekend and is building to a boil. County health commissioners say the GOP-led House’s plan to repeal a four-month-old home sewage system law, inserted into the biennium budget bill with no prior public debate, doesn’t pass the smell test. The new law, [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2007, 7:57am EDT
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• Jim Jordon Opposes Head Start

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  Ohio Congressman Jim Jordon was the only Ohio Congressman and one of only 45 that opposed the reauthorization of Head Start. Congressman Jordon can you, or for that matter anyone, please explain what his problem is with helping out children in need? A summary of the Head Start reauthorization can be viewed [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 4:21pm EDT
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• GOP Opposes Hate Crime Legislation

  Even before House members debated and passed a bill today to expand hate crimes law, the administration signaled that President Bush would veto it if it ever reaches his desk — delighting Republican lawmakers and social conservatives. The Republican Study Committee sent a letter to Bush yesterday asking him to threaten [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 4:00pm EDT
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• The ban begins

  Starting today, business proprietors in Ohio who allow smokers to light up will do so at their own risk. So says the Ohio Department of Health, which will investigate and punish smokers and business owners who ignore the ban voters passed last November. The law has been in place since December, [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 11:27am EDT
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• Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Limit on Bids by Convicts for DNA Tests

  CINCINNATI, May 2 — In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Supreme Court overturned on Wednesday the part of a broader 2003 law that required prosecutors’ consent to allow felons who had pleaded guilty to crimes to seek DNA tests that could prove their innocence. The provision was part of a statute [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 11:23am EDT
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• The Three Amigos Stick with Bush

  Bush's Veto Survives House Challenge [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:59am EDT
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• Another Charter School Scam

  About 500 students attend Harvest Preparatory Academy. Thirty-six teachers and two aides educate them. But only eight are licensed, the Ohio Department of Education says. And more than one-third of staff members hadn't had a background check more than midway through the school year. The Columbus Dispatch : State squeezes Harvest Prep [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:34am EDT
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• Ohio Court Weighs Pain-And-Suffering Cap

  A woman who says she suffered life-threatening blood clots from a birth control medication wants the Ohio Supreme Court to declare the state's cap on pain-and-suffering awards unconstitutional. The court is hearing arguments in the lawsuit filed by Melisa Arbino of Cincinnati over the Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch, which she contends [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:06am EDT
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• Wrong body buried in Ohio mix-up

  HAMILTON, Ohio — The family of a woman who died in a fire was given the wrong body, and was not notified of the error until a friend noticed the body was being exhumed. Butler County Coroner Richard Burkhardt said Wednesday his office took responsibility for the mix-up. "It is our [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:04am EDT
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• MeadWestvaco proposal would blend development, conservation

  MeadWestvaco wants a national park-sized area of forests near Charleston developed into what it calls an environmentally friendly community. MeadWestvaco executives said they want to provide a model development in the 72,000-acre area, east of the Edisto River, that combats sprawl in the booming Charleston area. Some of the land would be [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:02am EDT
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• Should states put brakes on charter school growth?

  DAYTON, Ohio — Ted Strickland is the governor of Ohio, and LaTeefah Appleberry is a diminutive 14-year-old parochial high school freshman with big dreams. The two have never met, but they share a trait: They come from humble origins and have a strong desire to do good things. They also hold [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 6:58am EDT
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• Sherrod Brown on Mortgage Reforms

  The practices of mortgage lenders will come under greater scrutiny Thursday, as two senators will unveil a plan to address rising foreclosures and high-interest rate home loans given to people with weak credit. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, along with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, will introduce [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 6:57am EDT
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• We The People - Speak out on Iraq

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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 1:55pm EDT
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• GOP is in Trouble

  Almost a week after a female (Clinton), an African American (Obama), and a Latino (Richardson) participated in the Democratic presidential debate, ten white men will take the stage tomorrow in the GOP one. Bush and former RNC chair Ken Mehlman made minority outreach a key goal, and it paid off in [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 12:17pm EDT
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• Voinovich Calls for "Vomiting" to Resolve Iraq Dispute

  George Voinovich (R) talks compromise, but couldn't he have picked nicer imagery? Per the Washington Post, "'Some kind of compromise has to be worked out between the administration and the Democrats," said .Voinovich ., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. 'That's how it's done. Everybody holds their nose and [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 12:14pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Turner Votes to Protect Free-Roaming Horses and Boros

  Cong. Mike Turner joined 276 other members of Congress and supported H R 249. H R 249 amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to: (1) prohibit the sale or transfer for commercial product processing of any free-roaming horse or burro on U.S. public lands; and (2) repeal the provisions [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 10:04am EDT
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• Another "Liberal" Plot

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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 9:02am EDT
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• Mission Accomplished

  Tell Us The Mission (Accomplished) [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2007, 9:30pm EDT
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• People Say, "Keep term Limits"

  Results of a poll conducted for a pro-term limits organization showed Tuesday that 62% of Ohioans questioned back the existing eight-year limits in effect for members of the General Assembly. And 62% of respondents said they would be less likely to support a candidate who voted to expand current legislative limits [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2007, 8:52pm EDT
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• Strickland/Husted - Dems/GOP Strike Historic Budget Deal

  Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, Ray Kroc had just opened his first McDonald’s restaurant and Jonas Salk had recently rolled out his polio vaccine the last time the House saw so much support for a state budget bill. The rare injection of broad bipartisan support for a spending blueprint, which became [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2007, 8:44pm EDT
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• McCain - Get Out of Haiti/ Stay in Iraq

  McCain Argues for Troop Withdrawal from Haiti [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 11:38pm EDT
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• Husted, DeWine Substitute Economic Development for Pork

  Ohio House Republicans want to cut $22 million in spending that Gov. Ted Strickland earmarked to attract business and jobs statewide. At the same time, the GOP is pushing to add $9 million to economic-development efforts in the Dayton area, home of Speaker Jon A. Husted and his No. 2, Rep. [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 11:20pm EDT
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• Ex-CIA chief describes warnings gone unheeded

  WASHINGTON — In a stinging indictment of the U.S. handling of the Iraq war, former CIA Director George J. Tenet accuses the Bush administration in a new book of ignoring repeated warnings that the country was collapsing into civil war and voices deep skepticism that the current "surge" in troops [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 11:15pm EDT
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• Woman in Escort Case Plans to Name Names in Defense

  WASHINGTON, April 28 — Deborah Jeane Palfrey has not been at all shy about it: for more than a decade she ran an escort service that catered to upscale clients in the nation’s capital, sending college-educated women to men’s homes or hotel rooms. For about $300, she promised 90 minutes of [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 11:13pm EDT
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• Boehner - Ultimate Hipocrite

   In 1993, current House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) voted numerous times to limit the deployment of troops in Somalia, including one bill that set a six-month timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. Like several other war supporters who once backed timelines, Boehner now attacks those who favor redeploying U.S. [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 8:54am EDT
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• Christian Facists Worry About Rudy

  Rudy Giuliani 2008 - The Movie - Chapter I [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 8:43am EDT
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• Liakos "Let Them Eat Cake"

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  There would be no bagels. Not for conservatives trying to do away with lap dances at strip clubs, anyway. Tensions are high in the battle over legislation to keep strippers 6 feet away from patrons and make them abandon their dance poles at midnight. The drama spilled from the Statehouse across the street [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 8:27am EDT
  by dayton

• When Does a Surge Become an Escalation?

  Boehner Speech on Democrats' Surrender Bill, 4/25/07 [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2007, 8:29am EDT
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• Husted Announces $100 million in college ...

  Husted Announces $100 million in college scholarships [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2007, 8:28am EDT
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• Run Al Run!

  Results of a new presidential preference poll showed Thursday that former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leads Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats among Ohio voters surveyed. Giuliani, contending for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, also leads Clinton and other Democrats in Florida and Pennsylvania. The independent Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll shows Giuliani [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2007, 8:19am EDT
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• King Bush Gets His Groove On

  President Bush Shakin his Groove Thang [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 6:52pm EDT
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• Husted Shoots Arrow Over Strickland Budget Bow

  Take a look at the attached changes Husted proposes to Strickland's budget proposal. It looks like the great budget compromise everyone was expecting is dead. HUSTED'S BUDGET CHANGES [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 5:44pm EDT
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• Turner Remains Bush Loyalist on Iraq War

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  SPEECH OFHON. MICHAEL R. TURNEROF OHIOIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 Mr. TURNER. Mr. Speaker, you cannot legislate victory in a military conflict–but you can legislate failure. This legislation abandons our troops and sets an arbitrary timetable for our withdrawal. Although America's commitment in Iraq is not unlimited, this legislation [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 4:48pm EDT
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• Hear What They Had to Say About Iraq Pullout

  CONGRESS VOTES FOR IRAQ PULLOUT Thu. 04/26/07 Click on names below to here floor speeches by: NANCY PELOSI | JOHN BOEHNER | JACK MURTHA | RAHM EMANUEL | PATRICK MURPHY Posted in PTV [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 4:33pm EDT
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• Turner, Hobson, Boehner Stick with Bush on Iraq

  Turner, Hobson and Boehner (along with Sen. Voinovich) voted against the emergency supplemental appropriation measure reported out of conference committee and voted on in the House yesterday. House and Senate conferees approved legislation providing $124.2 billion primarily for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for improving the health care for returning soldiers [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 9:41am EDT
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• Defeatocrats

  VENT The Defeatocrats' Cheer [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2007, 9:05pm EDT
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• Corporate Welfare Alive and Well in Ohio and Dayton

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  The Ohio Department of Development announced that three Dayton area companies were granted more than half a million dollars in grant Monday. The cost to taxpayers ranged from $300,000 (in total) for 14 jobs, to $250,000 for 575 jobs and $200,000 for 150 jobs. Appleton Papers Inc. in West Carrollton will receive a [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 8:55pm EDT
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• Two Dems Appointed to Cuyahoga BOE

  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced Monday she has appointed two Democrats to serve on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Brunner, who asked the previous board members to resign, named attorneys Inajo Davis Chappell and Eben “Sandy” McNair to the panel. Brunner made the selections after meeting personally with six finalists [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 8:45pm EDT
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• Husted/Strickland Close to Deal on Higher Ed Funding

  The House plans to bolster higher education funding in the biennium budget with a $134 million infusion of spending on scholarships and general subsidies, Republicans announced Monday. The additional spending will be offset by cuts to Gov. Ted Strickland’s proposed human services program expansions. Jon Husted announced the scholarship plan and the [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 8:37pm EDT
  by dayton

• The Day They Kicked God out of the Schools

  The Day They Kicked God out of the Schools  The feature is from an unknown author and has been circulated on the Internet. American Family Association [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 4:02pm EDT
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• McCain: Address energy security, warming

  Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is calling the United States' foreign-oil reliance and global warming twin threats the country must aggressively confront. "National security depends on energy security," the Arizona senator says in a speech he is to give Monday in which he suggests the country can't achieve either if it [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 9:13am EDT
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• Will Gore's plan to combat global warming work?

  YES: Strategies, including nuclear energy's role, get A-plus To the delight of late-night comedians and the grist grinders of the blogosphere, Al Gore is prone to occasional exaggeration. His Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is no exception. There are misstatements and overconfident assertions in various parts of Gore's seminar. But Gore gets [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 9:00am EDT
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• GOP will not win in Ohio

  WASHINGTON - In the last 24 elections, since 1912, winners of the presidency won a plurality of the states along the Mississippi. Today the Republican presidential candidate with perhaps the most impressive resume says: Republicans should assume that in 2008 they will lose Ohio (20 electoral votes), where the state party's [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 8:52am EDT
  by dayton

• We Can't Afford Another Irresponsible President

  MoveOn.org ad against McCain: [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2007, 9:12am EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Bonb, Bomb Iran

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  Posted: April 21, 2007, 9:00am EDT
  by dayton

• Hokie Hope

  Ross Abdallah Alameddine Age: 20 Hometown: Saugus, Mass. More Information » Christopher James "Jamie" Bishop Age: 35 Hometown: Pine Mountain, Georgia More Information » Brian Bluhm Age: 25 Hometown: [...] [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2007, 8:56am EDT
  by dayton

• Fun with Parliamentary Procedure

  Rep. Frank on Executive Compensation Motion to Recommit [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2007, 8:49am EDT
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• Dann Faces First Ethics Challenge

  Attorney General Marc Dann axed his Law Enforcement Operations chief of three months Friday, saying the state and Youngstown, Rick Alli’s former employer, had jointly requested an ethics investigation of the police veteran. Dann spokesman Leo Jennings said the developments had stunned the AG, who campaigned against corruption in state government [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 8:57pm EDT
  by dayton

• Will DeWine Give Up DPL Pay

  Now that Kevin DeWine is set to take over the Ohio GOP operations many are wondering if DeWine will give up his paid executive job with DP&L. In his most recent financial disclosure filing DeWine continued to draw a salary of up to $100,000 a year from DP&L while serving in [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 8:46pm EDT
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• Kevin DeWine Takes Reigns at Ohio GOP

  House Speaker Pro Tempore Kevin DeWine was elected deputy chairman of the Ohio Republican Party on Friday. DeWine won election on the second ballot with 37 votes from the 66-member State Central and Executive Committee. Thirty-four votes were needed for election. The election puts him in line to take over party [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 1:01pm EDT
  by dayton

• Ohio Dems Hand Rove an Affidavit

  Ohio Democratic Party demands answers from Karl Rove [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 11:27am EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Dems Crackdown on Wal-Mart's Rip Off of Ohio

  As reported in Gongwer, Democrats plan to crack down on Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal report on tax planning, Mr. Skindell said.  “They set up a trust and transfer property into that trust because it’s tax-free. Wal-Mart, the corporation, then rents that property from the [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 11:08am EDT
  by dayton

• VT Shooter Video

  Virginia Tech Shooter Home Video NBC News Cho Seung-Hui [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 9:42am EDT
  by dayton

• Democrats Trying Again for Three Ohio Seats That Eluded Them in 2006

  It is difficult to identify many Democratic setbacks in the House elections of 2006, when the party gained 30 seats and captured the majority after 12 years of Republican rule. But if Democratic House campaign strategists had to pick one state where they hoped for a better outcome, it would [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 9:36am EDT
  by dayton

• Audit Finds Many Faults in Cleveland's 06 Voting

  An audit of last November’s general election in the Cleveland area has found that hundreds of votes were lost, that others were recorded twice and that software used to count the ballots was vulnerable to data problems. In a state that was pivotal to President Bush’s election and re-election, Cuyahoga County, [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2007, 9:29am EDT
  by dayton

• Brunner Makes First Appointment to Cuyahoga BOE

  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Thursday took the first step toward replenishing the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections by appointing a Republican recommended by the county party. “I’m pleased with the Republican Party’s nomination,” Ms. Brunner said in a news release. “Jeff Hastings brings experience and commitment that will enhance [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 9:10pm EDT
  by dayton

• DDN - Bush Finally Shuts UP!

                              The DDN quickly pulled the caption from the picture, but not until a few others captured it.  It appears someone at the DDN has a sense of humor. [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 6:11pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Mayor McLin turns down request to greet president

  DAYTON — Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin said she wasn't playing politics when she turned down a request from the White House to greet President George Bush when his plane landed at the Dayton International Airport on Thursday. It's just that she was already busy: there was a meeting about downtown to [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 6:05pm EDT
  by dayton

• Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran McCain ...

  Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran McCain jokes about bombing Iran….or does he? [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 5:47pm EDT
  by dp

• How the right keeps winning on abortion and guns

  Why is it so easy to get guns in America? Cho Seung-Hui purchased one of the pistols he used to shoot 50 of his classmates, a Glock 19, at a shop in Roanoke, Va., after showing an ID card and passing an instant background check. He appears to have gotten [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 8:44pm EDT
  by dayton

• Husted - "No Deal on School Choice"

  Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and House Republican leaders are running out of time but still hope to compromise on Strickland's plan to place a moratorium on new charter schools and yank the state's school voucher program everywhere except Cleveland, both offices said Wednesday.  The Statehouse has been crowded this week and [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 8:03pm EDT
  by dayton

• Strickland plan reduces taxes on 13,000 Dayton seniors

  Property Tax Relief with Expansion of Homestead Exemption   City School Districts Number of Senior Citizen Homeowners Proposed Average Property Tax Cut Akron 16,140 33% Cincinnati 16,930 26% Cleveland 26,760 34% Columbus 27,100 29% Dayton 13,440 36% Toledo 20,510 37% Youngstown 10,140 61% Columbus, OH - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today released specific, school district-by-school district data for the average tax cut Ohio’s seniors will receive with Strickland’s proposed expansion of the Homestead Tax Exemption. [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 7:06pm EDT
  by dayton

• Nixon-Bush/Then-Now

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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 12:43pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Three Issues Strickland Won't Compromise

  YOUNGSTOWN — When dealing with the Republican-controlled General Assembly, Gov. Ted Strickland says he fully realizes the need for a "give-and-take" process to get the state's two-year budget passed. But the Democratic governor said there is no room for compromise on his three top priorities. "I'll go to the wall on these," [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 12:22pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Karl Rove's Emails

  Karl Rove Fights With The Microsoft Paper Clippy Guy. [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 11:30pm EDT
  by dayton

• Why is John White Raising Campaign Cash?

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    John White of Kettering has a fundraiser scheduled next week. Rep. John White (R-Kettering) fund-raiser, Claddagh Irish Pub, Columbus, Tuesday, April 24 at 5 p.m. White is term limited, so why is he raising campaign cash? [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 11:26pm EDT
  by dayton

• Three Former BWC Officials Charged with Ethics Violations

  Misdemeanor ethics charges were filed Tuesday in Franklin County Municipal Court against three former employees of the investment division at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.   The charges allege various conflicts of interest and non-disclosure violations related to expenses for golf outings, travel, meals, and entertainment, said a joint news release [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 11:22pm EDT
  by dayton

• Turner to Chair Hearings on Electronic Voting

  The man is a marvel, with the ability to understand the complexity of <a href="http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2390&Itemid=26">electronic voting</a> as well as the nuance of  <a href="http://universityofdayton.blogs.com/local/2007/03/building_26_hea.html">history</a>.  Thats why he moved from a historic Linden Ave. home to an McMansion in Stone Lake.  I wonder if Mike will show at the hearing as [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 9:00pm EDT
  by ghunter

• The History of Guns in the U.S.

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  The History of Guns in the US [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 10:49am EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Brunner Takes Control of 2004 Presidential Ballots

  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner will take custody of all the 2004 presidential election ballots that remain the subject of an ongoing legal dispute that alleges voting irregularities that were overseen by her predecessor Ken Blackwell. The action comes in response to complaints from some county boards of elections over limited [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 10:23am EDT
  by dayton

• Prevention First Bill

  Advocates of access to emergency contraception and expanded funding for family-planning services hope bi-partisan sponsorship will help win enactment of the legislation this session. Freedom of Choice Ohio, a coalition whose members include NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Ohio, held a briefing to mark introduction of what is called [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 10:17am EDT
  by dayton

• Tipp City abuzz with news of impending presidential visit

    Tipp City — The White House didn't confirm until late Monday afternoon that President George W. Bush will speak in Tipp City on Thursday, but the word already had spread.   Tipp City abuzz with news of impending presidential visit [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 7:31am EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Bush Coming to Dayton Thursday

  George Bush will give a speech on Terror at Tipp City High School on Thursday. Recent reports indicate that terrorists may be infiltrating the Tipp Ctiy community. Bush wants to warn Tipp City about the perils of associating with terrorists and any thoughts of obtaining weapons of mass destruction. President Bush [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2007, 6:21pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Boehner on Pork

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  Last January, Democrats took the reins in Congress, portraying themselves as agents of change who would restore trust by ending pork-barrel politics in Washington. But now after three months of Democratic rule, it’s clear Democrats are exactly who we thought they were all along — the same old party of [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2007, 5:07pm EDT
  by Ben Anderson

• Mike Turner's Ad Firm Registered Agent of Saudi Arabia

  Last October Mike Turner made $300,000 + in media buys using the firm of Sandler-Innocenzi. Sandler-Innocenzi is a political consulting firm located in Alexandria, Virginia that has gotten intself into controversy in the past as an agent of the Saudi government. As of Turner's last filing with the FEC he was in hock to [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2007, 6:47pm EDT
  by bobhiggins

• It's not just Imus

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  On April 11, NBC News announced that it was dropping MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake of the controversy that erupted over host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." The following day, CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves announced [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2007, 10:04pm EDT
  by dayton

• DPS Levy Places Larger Burden on Home Owners

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  Changes in annual tax bills if the DPS Levy passes: Commercial & Industrial Property - +28.25% Residential Property -  +44.25% The Dayton Public Schools 15.17 mill levy to be voted on next month is structured in a way to give a break to businesses at the expense of residential property owners. The levy is [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2007, 9:49pm EDT
  by dayton

• Turner Goes Web 2.0

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  Ohio GOP VideoBlog - Congressman Mike Turner Stick to what you know Mike! [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2007, 10:47pm EDT
  by dayton

• Marc Dann is corrupt already

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  From OhioGop.blogs.com Marc Dann's Pay-to-Play Racket Marc Dann then: As a leader in the effort to expose and pursue the wrongdoing that has occurred in state government, I am already changing the way business is done in Ohio. I have sued the governor twice to force him to release documents relative to Coingate [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2007, 9:37pm EDT
  by mcohio

• UD's Curran - bad advice, bad judgement, or both

  It is no secret that UD rushed to the decision to destroy building 26.  Now, because Mike Turner demanded, UD is going to conduct a public hearing on a decision they have already made. However, UD officials continue to dig themselves into a deeper hole on this controversy because of how they [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2007, 7:59pm EDT
  by bobhiggins

• What the media won't tell you about Imus

  Red State Update: Don Imus Scandal [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 4:16pm EDT
  by dayton

• Hillary coming to Dayton May 5

  WILBERFORCE — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her first Ohio campaign stop in Fairborn on May 5 as the commencement speaker for Wilberforce University, officials announced Wednesday. The commencement, which is open to the public, will be at Wright State University's Nutter Center.   Clinton coming to Fairborn on May [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 12:03am EDT
  by dayton

• Voinovich Does It Again!

  George Voinovich joined 31 other Republican and 2 Democratic Senators in a failed attempt to stop the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The bill passed 63 to 34. The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 does the following: Amended the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 10:33pm EDT
  by dayton

• Sherrod Brown in Race for the Golden Gavel

  Two freshman senators are locked in a tight race over who will be class geek. Both Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) want to be the very first among their class of nine senators to win the Golden Gavel Award, which was created in the 1960s as an incentive [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 10:17pm EDT
  by dayton

• Republican Jewish Coalition Attacks Pelosi

   RJC Ad On Pelosi Who is the Republican Jewish Coalition? Check them out. http://www.rjchq.org/ [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 7:46pm EDT
  by dayton