Recently Time Warner Cable announced they will not be paying a 300% increase to continue carrying Fox News. This has some local citizens worried about where they will get their news.
“I don’t know where I am going to find the real news, Fox news is the only channel that tells [...]
It appears that the Ohio Supreme Court's attempts to collect more than $7 million from two companies accused of scamming senior citizens are not going well.
The court today handed off the collection action to the office of Attorney General Richard Cordray, who employs lawyers and others to [...]
Community leaders, residents to urge Sen. Voinovich to give Ohioans the vote they deserve on health care reform.
A group of concerned citizens visited the Office of Senator George Voinovich in Columbus, Ohio today to talk about health care reform. The Senator wasn't available, so we left him a message to' [...]
The announcement of the levy Passage and the dubious circumstances in which it was passed is sure to have local citizens fired up and ready to write Letters to the Editor.
Writing letters to the editor is an art form and many a novice may find themselves at a loss as [...]
I wouldn’t want to be this woman …
However, I’d rather be her than be helpless and sitting there waiting for the police to show up. After hearing this, I can’t imagine anyone still having a problem with the right of law abiding citizens to own guns.
Watch the latest [...]
Both of these releases came in today while I was at work, so since they are on a similar topic, I’m including them in the order they were received, first, the announcement of Executive Staff for the new Administration, then the first round of appointments to the Citizens Special Investigation [...]
So many bad things about government are in display in this story: “Lacking funding, kindergarten expansion falters”
Sadly, the state of civic education is so decayed that it is clear a majority of citizens will react to such a story with false outrage, demanding that “they” do something for “the [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland’s anti-discrimination laws will grow to protect transgender citizens under an ordinance passed Monday by City Council.
Existing city codes prohibit businesses from denying jobs or housing to citizens for reasons of age, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Activists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]
Hundreds of Thousands of Low-Income Ohioans to Benefit
Cleveland, OH--Low-income Ohio citizens will be ensured access to voter registration at Ohio public assistance offices as a result of a settlement agreement submitted to Federal District Court Judge Patricia A. Gaughan over this past holiday weekend.
The settlement successfully [...]
Usually, losing parties in Ohio Supreme Court cases accept their defeats quietly. Not Jeff Norman.
Norman, whose companies were hammered in October with a record-breaking $6.4 million verdict for allegedly fleecing senior citizens, today lost his bid to have the Supreme Court take another look at his [...]
If Ohio elected a Green Party candidate to Governor, we could rechange Ohio.
We would send a Progressive Liberal to Columbus to bring back Renewable Energy Jobs, Single-Payer Health Care for All, and Clean Fair Elections back to Ohio! One who would address the issues facing regular citizens, not Lobbyists or [...]
Here is today’s test:
What does the phrase, “with liberty and justice for all,” mean to you? On a scale of -100, to what degree does the US live up to the ideal of “liberty and justice for all”? Please explain. Which is more important, liberty or justice? Please explain.I wonder if seniors [...]
Thomas Friedman fears that our democracy is so broken it will not be able to meet the big challenges of the future. In “Advice From Grandma,” he cites six stubborn realities that are paralyzing America:
Money in politics has become so pervasive that lawmakers have to spend most of their [...]
