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Voters are angry over having their freedoms ripped away, and they want fighters standing up for them
Cautious responses to a raging fire signal timidity not tenacity. Incremental baby steps to battle flames engulfing a house let it burn out of control. Leading the charge to the rescue with a flat, passionless recitation of purpose galvanizes no one. California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets it. “Where the hell’s my party?” asked the vexed […]
Women merit no mention by misogynist, extremist politicians ripping away their bodily autonomy
Reducing women to compulsory breeders, under penalty of law, by eviscerating landmark abortion rights never came up in Republican talking points after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Women didn’t even rate an asterisk in the party script copied and pasted in GOP statements that portrayed the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical nullification of reproductive freedoms as […]
Ohioan advocating for veterans suffering from toxic military exposure on cusp of victory in Congress
The little engine that could lives in northeast Ohio. It chugs away in the form of a 65-year-old retired UAW worker who, after multiple setbacks, finally surmounted Capitol Hill. It was an improbable legislative odyssey for Susan Weber Zeier of Sandusky, who confided the whole experience was almost surreal. On the cusp of long-awaited victory […]
Trump and his mob tried to overthrow American democracy and threaten to try again
Picture a split screen on your TV. On one side a parade of prominent Republican officials in the Trump administration, in the Trump family, in the Trump Justice Department, in the Trump 2020 reelection campaign are spilling the beans about Jan. 6. Finally, Americans are hearing the truth about Trump’s Big Lie from his own […]
Schoolchildren do need protected: from fearful, intolerant, bigoted bills pushed by lawmakers
“We’ve got to protect the children!” You hear the refrain repeatedly from the gems trying to legislate banning and bullying in Ohio schools with bad to worse bills. “Save the innocents,” bray the right wingers angling for a break-out MAGA moment and the religious right on a mission from God. “From what?” you ask, as […]
Next week, Ohioans can concealed carry firearms with no permit, background check or training
Do you feel safer knowing that anyone who can legally pack heat will be able to carry hidden firearms in Ohio without a license, background checks or basic training starting next week? A whole level of scrutiny and safety requirements that once applied to concealed handguns in Ohio disappear June 13. If you’re at least […]
GOP redistricting commissioners have broken the Ohio Constitution and rule of law
“If courts don’t uphold the rule of law,” tweeted former Ohio Democratic Party chairman David Pepper, “there is no rule of law.” Last week the Ohio Supreme Court proved him right. The Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission — tasked with drawing fair legislative districts maps — openly defied the court and violated the […]
Dear Ohio voters, the only way to save our democratic republic is for you to show up to vote
Dear Ohio Voters, We need to talk. Especially those of you who skipped the primary election earlier this month. There were a lot of you who didn’t bother to vote. Turnout was the third worst on record since 1986. Nearly 8 out of 10 Ohioans who could have voted in person or by mail — […]
Dog parks offer respite from pull-your-hair-out politics of Ohio, nation
I have found a refuge from the pull-your-hair out politics that is our collective cross in Ohio and the nation. It is not nirvana. You must watch where you step. But there is plenty of room to breathe and be. It’s a place, to borrow a phrase, where every dog can have its day — […]
Rights to bodily autonomy on the ballot in November as U.S. Supreme Court looks to overturn Roe
The foreboding of the late Supreme Court Justice has come to pass. Women are being denied decision-making power over their own lives. They are being dehumanized as lesser. Being robbed of bodily autonomy. Courts, lawmakers and physicians are deciding what’s best for pregnant women — after establishing that they lack the capacity and privilege to […]
Jim Jordan was deeply involved in the attempted coup to overturn the 2020 Election
The net is tightening around Jimbo. As more damning text messages, testimony and phone call records encircle the pint-sized pol from Urbana, Jim Jordan should be breaking out in a cold sweat. The 4th District U.S. congressman should be squirming in his shirt sleeves with each new revelation trickling out about his behind-the-scenes treachery leading […]
Don’t let Ohio’s hot mess stop you from exercising your freedom to vote
What a hot mess. Thanks to Ohio Republicans, enjoying a monopoly of power from the last redistricting sham they engineered after the 2010 Census, a critical election has been turned into a crapshoot. Thanks to one party, impervious to the needless chaos it created for voters, poll workers, and election administrators with lopsided district maps […]