For Christmas, It’s Ho Ho Help! In Ohio as More Jobs Leave, Child...
The season’s greeting that 700 workers in Ohio received Friday is that their jobs will be gone by this time next year. Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. said it plans to close two plants in western...
View ArticleOhio Republicans Set Traps for New Democratic Leaders
Dawn of the Dead Starring GollumThe cult movie classic "Dawn of the Dead," about insatiable bodies suddenly rising from their graves to feed on the living, appears to be the model Ohio Republican...
View ArticleVictory in Iraq? The Answer May Surprise You
As politicians and pundits ponder what victory in Iraq will look like when it arrives, I’d like to offer a simple, clarifying standard that if achieved would enable everyone, even the president’s...
View ArticleIn Penultimate Session, Ohio Republican Lawmakers Force Feed Bad Bills to...
Prepared to spend a long day and night holed up in the Ohio Statehouse before the clock runs out on the 126th General Assembly, Republican lawmakers, who control both chambers of the Ohio General...
View ArticleAfter President Orwell, Should Our Next President Get a Free War?
With Americans having to endure another 759 days left in the terrible, blistering presidency of President George W. Orwell that has effectively set the world on fire and enriched his business buddies...
View ArticleTo Turnaround Ohio, Voters Must Limit Legislature
If Ohio voters and taxpayers, who routinely say they want good, efficient government, needed a good reason to rein in the frivolity of their elected lawmakers, a softball-sized example was served up to...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Fabulous Football But Future Fraught With Frustrations
The Ohio State University is reported to be flying 317 special guests to Arizona to watch its famous, fabulous number one ranked Buckeye football team play the Florida Gators Monday for the national...
View ArticleIn Ohio: A Sensible Plan for Recovery
As I’ve written before about the steep decline Ohio has taken from a once great and mighty industrial and agricultural state to one that now needs resuscitation from the warped, wrongheaded policies...
View ArticleIn Ohio: New Gov’s Veto Sets Up First Showdown and Shootout with...
First Test of Power Between Executive and LawmakersIn the first test of his new powers, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, the first Democrat to occupy the office in 16 years, took aim at a hastily passed...
View ArticleIN OHIO: Brunner Blasts Blackwell's Bogus Bonuses
THE BLACKWELL GIFTS THAT KEEP ON EXPLODINGIn her first week on the job as Ohio’s new Secretary of State (SOS), Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat and well-respected former Common Pleas Court Judge, was...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Blackwell’s Bonuses Sliced and Diced
The (Toledo) Blade, the glass-city paper that broke the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Republican scandal story that helped turn Republicans out of office last year, again showed its massive...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Brunner’s Bold Poll Worker Proposal Deserves Consideration
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO) this week that she would be a friend and ally and help them out by modeling a system to recruit poll...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Republican Lawsuit Attacking Brunner Will Backfire
A lawsuit filed Friday by Republican lawmakers to exact revenge for the veto of a blatantly bad business-protection bill by Ohio’s new Democratic governor will find them guilty of running roughshod...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Brunner Asks For Audit Into Blackwell Bungling
Over the past two weeks much of Ohio’s news media has contributed to an avalanche of misinformation designed to berate and denigrate the state’s new Democratic secretary of state Jennifer Brunner for...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Brunner Shows Leadership By Voicing Ideas
Ohio's new Democratic Secretary of State (SOS) Jennifer Brunner has offered award winning ideas in the past and is continuinig to do so now, despite the predictable response from her detractors. But...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Will Auditor Taylor Redefine CPA?
In a little over six weeks on the job as Ohio’s new state auditor, Mary Taylor, the only Republican to win election to a statewide office in last fall’s general election, is already showing Ohio voters...
View ArticleIn Ohio: New Reports Reveal Republican Legacy of Destruction
In the spirited college song sung by The Best Damn Band In The Land, the answer to the "cute little riddle" identifying the name of the state for which the university is named, goes: "It’s round on the...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Republican Lawmakers Busted for Concealing Bill Shuffling
If Ohio taxpayers thought the long litany of Republican scandals and corruption would end now that new Democratic Governor Ted Strickland and other new Democratic officeholders were in charge, the...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Strickland Puts Republicans On Notice Over Veto
The unfolding and juicy story about Republican bill shuffling in Ohio is covered here. While Republican legislative leaders try to downplay their bill-shuffling activities as mere "clerical errors,"...
View ArticleIn Ohio: Strickland KOs Kleptocracts in SOTS
Ted Strickland, the humble prison psychologist and United Methodist minister from the hills of Appalachia Ohio whose cool, calm and caring won the hearts, minds and votes of Ohioans last year,...
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