It can be embarassing to admit that John Boehnhead is from Ohio. But you have to admit, he's so ridiculous that he provides us with lots of laughs.
Like this:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29881.html
It seems that Boehnhead's hilariously named "Freedom Project" PAC has spent almost $83,000 on golf this year — more [...]
I promised I would give my take on the meeting that took place November 17 to discuss reforming the Cuyahoga Democratic Part, a meeting I got myself up at an ungodly hour to attend. So here goes.
There’s been an undercurrent of conversation about reform within the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party [...]
I got the following via e-mail today from the Jennifer Brunner campaign, which you can read on her website.
http://jenniferbrunner.com/index.php/blog/post/please_join_me_for_a_wome...
Brunner is in the midst of a series of Women’s Forums around the state, joining groups of local women to talk with women AND men about the impact of government [...]
For those of you in the 11th congressional district (or in fact, anywhere in Northeast Ohio) who might be looking for something fun to do over the Thanksgiving weekend as well as support one of those progressive congresspeople that actually cares whether sick people have access to health care, Congresswoman [...]
I think I’ve finally figured out the Plain Dealer’s business plan to shore up its dwindling bottom line. It has nothing to do with charging news aggregators royalties to link to its content or putting up a pay wall.
Rather, it plans to blow off all subscribers except several hundred of [...]
Last night, I attended an event at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland called an Interfaith Service of Remembrance, Hope and Action for health care. Its purpose was to memorialize those who have suffered for lack of health care and to energize people going forward. It was sponsored by more than [...]
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/senate-liberals-demand...
A group of progressive senators met with majority leader Harry Reid last night to drive home the crucial importance of including a public option in the health-care reform bill.
As the New York Times reports,
"Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who requested the meeting on Monday night with" [...]
Apparently, Jennifer Garrison, the state legislator from Marietta who is now running to be the Democratic candidate for secretary of state, has finally discovered elections issues, one of the key functions of the SoS office. The legislature has been working for a while on a bill based on the recommendations [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_el_pr/us_palin_book_fact_check...
Apparently, just about the only true thing in Sarah Palin's newly published "auto" biography is that her name IS Sarah Palin.
If you want to read 400 pages of lies and whining about being picked on, especially by bloggers, be my guest. I'm reading the Motley Crue collective autobiography,' [...]
As I read through my latest crop of hysterical e-mails from right-wing groups like NewsMax and HumanEvents shrieking about "Stop Obamacare! Help us block the government takeover of heath care!!!" or see the latest truth-free quote from some right-wing politician about how wrong it is to work toward helping people [...]
I seriously don't know why I keep stopping by
http://republicanleader.house.gov/
I guess I just like picking my jaw off the floor. Or maybe I feel an obligation to let people here in Ohio know what this Ohio Republican "leader" is up to.
So after watching a little video titled "Pelosi's" [...]
It’s been widely noted today that Cleveland car dealer Tom Ganley, who is challenging Rob “The Job Outsourcer” Portman for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat George Voinovich is vacating, has just become the first candidate in that race to go on the air with a television ad.
The [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot and talking with a lot of people about the passage of Issue 6 in Cuyahoga County and what its aftermath is likely to be. My colleague Damian Guevara and I shared some of our thoughts in this article in Scene.
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/money-talked/Content?oid=1732101
Following a campaign based [...]
Oh joy, oh joy! Just because there's not enough political turmoil in this state, we're going to be blessed with a visit from a certain book-hawking gubernatorial quitter.
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXWh
At least, beleaguered Clevelanders will be spared — for now. You Cincinnatians and Columbsites will want to buy your books and' [...]
Mary Jo Kilroy (Oh-15) speaks out on the Republican congressmen trying to silence Democratic women with shouting:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/10/kilroy-gop-sexist/
Just one more reason we need more women in Congress. Yes, I know that some of these GOP clowns think they can be rude to anyone, but they seem to think that [...]
In a climate that has become exponentially more explosive for the Democratic party around women's reproductive freedom in the last couple of days, Jennifer Brunner has issued a statement supporting those of us who are fed up with being told that women can always be put last, that our rights [...]
Here's Dennis Kucinich's statement about why he voted against the health-care reform bill in the House last night. It will be interesting to see if the corporate community — long gunning for him and feeling its oats after its thorough duping of the public on Issue 6 last Tuesday — [...]
The vote was 220-215.
Both our Blue Dogs, Charlie Wilson (Oh-06) and Zack Space (Oh-18), voted for it. If you are in their districts, call and thank them. Wilson: 202-225-5705. Space: 202-225-6265.
Unfortunately, we had two less predictable "no" votes in our Ohio delegation: John Boccieri (Oh-16) and Dennis Kucinich (Oh-10). Kucinich [...]
It’s hard to believe we’re sitting here on a Saturday — with an enormous Democratic majority in congress — facing the possibility that an entire group of the women most in need of legal abortions won’t be able to get them with insurance they have paid for, because they are [...]
Last night, I attended a house party to meet our state auditor candidate David Pepper, who is from Cincinnati and not known up here in Northeast Ohio. A local Democratic activist/ fundraiser invited people to meet him and get to know a little more about him. (This was not a [...]
Then maybe we could be rid of John Boehnhead.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Boehner_mixes_up_Constitu...
[...]While I'm still thinking over what happened last night, the thing that's clearest to me is that the victories of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 are all about one thing: money. I don't have exact figures in front of me right now, but the proponents [...]
Nothing irritates me more than apathetic cynics who whine about how all politicians are the same and that nothing ever changes and nothing you do can influence your government. To me, it's a rationalization for laziness. Back in 2004, I was accosted down at the Rock Hall by a man [...]
It’s helpful to think of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 as being about the attempt to buy democracy away from the voters. They seem to be about one thing (livestock standards and food safety, casinos, government reform) but they’re really about something else: a jockey [...]
As I’m writing this, the polls open in Ohio in about 36 hours, and there’s little more to say about the issues on the ballot, or at least, the state issues. There’s been little controversy — and little lying — around state Issue 1, floating bonds to pay a bonus [...]
We all know that casino issues never come out and say they are about casinos. Issue 3 deceptively dubbed itself “Ohio Jobs and Growth” right out of the gate. Its signs and mailers don’t say things like, “We should be able to gamble close to home” or “If other states [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice,” paraphrasing an abolitionist from the 1850s.
Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire, told an overflowing sanctuary at Trinity Cathedral downtown last night that he believes the justice [...]
As a print-media person myself and until fairly recently a regular daily newspaper reader, I find myself with mixed feelings today on looking at the just-released figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation on the decline in print-media circulation across the country. The San Francisco Chronicle, for instance, suffered a [...]
I don't have TV personally (no cable and too lazy to work on figuring out how to hook up my digital box) but for those of you who do, Dennis Kucinich will be on C-SPAN's Washington Journal tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.
According to his press release, "There will be an'" [...]
"Sherrod Brown Decries Wall Street Bonuses."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/10/sherrod-brown-decries-wall-stre...
“Well, where have these people led us? These brilliant people on Wall Street that have produced so much money for themselves and they’re such geniuses, where have they led this country?
Good questions, Seantor Brown.
[...]I glanced this morning at someone’s Plain Dealer that was lying around, and I could not believe my eyes. I looked around for another copy to make sure someone hadn’t created a dummy version of today’s front page. Although the PD has occasionally done a little honest reporting on Issue [...]
I haven’t mentioned health care lately, even though it’s one of the uppermost issues in my mind (when I’m not trying to pick shards of the state and county issues out of my brain!). But we’re getting down to crunch time, as the House and Senate are both working toward [...]
Sherrod Brown has said that he has already voted, and he voted against Issue 3. “I think there are better ways to create jobs, and my focus has always been job creation,” he told Ohio News Network’s Capitol Square show.
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2009/10/16/Sherrod_Brow...
Responded the spokesperson for the issue, “Senator [...]
There’s so much nonsense flying around on the various state and county (Cuyahoga) issue campaigns that it’s taking me a while to dig out and compose my thoughts. The campaign that seems to have engendered the most flat-out nonsense is Issue 2, the creation via constitutional amendment of a “Livestock [...]
Or neither?
Since Jill Miller Zimon is preoccupied with her race for city council in Pepper Pike (see post below!) and can’t post another 57 million reasons to vote against casino gambling, I guess I’ll have to jump into the breach. My take is a bit different from hers: I’m against [...]
It occurred to me after receiving an e-mail this morning from Jill Miller Zimon with her remarks from last night’s Pepper Pike Civic League Candidates Night, and reading the plug for her city council candidacy on Buckeye State Blog today, that I should probably post something about her race too.
Jill [...]
It was only a few weeks ago that I heard about state Issue 2 for the first time. Now I seem to be hearing about it everywhere — which is good. I’m sure many people are initially as confused as I was.
This is the issue that would create via [...]
My mother was an active League of Women Voters member most of her life, eventually working her way up to president of the Chicago Region LWV. She never had a paid job, but devoted herself to her League work as tirelessly as if it were a paid career. (She was [...]
A release from Chris Redfern popped into my e-mail box a little while ago. It’s headed “Toledo Blade praises Jennifer Brunner, slams Jon Husted.”
Well, that’s always a good thing, in my opinion.
“I wanted to be sure you saw the editorial below, which was printed in today’s Toledo Blade,” he says. [...]
When you pick up your phone and say hello, and there's a pause of several seconds before a recorded voice starts to speak, you know it's robocall season.
Last night, I got two robocalls about the Cuyahoga County reform issues: One from Real Reform Done Right (Yes on 5, No [...]
I don’t know how many of you recall the case of a woman who was gang-raped while working for Halliburton in Iraq about four years ago. In addition to being treated like dirt and denied medical care, she was forbidden by her employment contract to seek legal redress.
Today, Sen. Al [...]
One of the standard features of campaign fundraising is for a candidate to get the biggest name he or she knows to star at an event. Numerous examples quickly come to mind: Just recently, Lee Fisher held a fundraiser with Bill Clinton, while his opponent Jennifer Brunner had one with [...]
The executive commitee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party met this morning at Euclid High School to hear from proponents/opponents of state issues 1-3 and county issue 4-6.
While 1 (to float bonds to pay a bonus to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans) and 4 (the Tri-C levy) had no one [...]
I was disappointed with Sherrod Brown for caving to the trumped-up howls of the right for Acorn's blood. I predicted that the demonizing of this advocacy group for lower-income people — and so many congressional Democrats including Brown (but not, I'm pleased to say, either Marcia Fudge or Dennis Kucinich)' [...]
I went to the Cleveland appearance of the Mad as Hell Doctors last night at Laborers Hall. This is a group of doctors from Oregon who are traveling across country in a Winnebago on their way to a rally in Washington D.C. tomorrow in support of single-payer health care. Along [...]
Today was primary day for the East Cleveland mayoral race, and voters decided they've had enough of sometimes controversial, often abrasive incumbent mayor, Eric Brewer. He was beaten handily by City Council President Gary Norton. Although the photos of Brewer in drag that surfaced recently may have been amusing, it’s' [...]
Hey guys!
Forget Giselle Bundchen; forget Megan Fox. Forget the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models.
Here’s a calendar that will get you all hot and bothered!
Imagine turning over a new page at the end of the month and seeing THIS:
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/09/28/conservative-c...
Or how about THIS:
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/09/28/conservative-c...
OK, maybe you’re not HOT, but I’ll [...]
I went to a training the other night sponsored by Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage, which laid out the various health-care reform provisions being proposed in Congress, what they do and what could potentially happen with them. The news is WAY better than many faint-hearted progressive doomsters seem to think [...]
So earlier today I get an email from a friend of mine in Florida alerting me to a Northeast Ohio "scandal": It appears that East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer, who is in a heated battle with councilman Gary Norton to hang onto his office after next Tuesday's primary (whose winner [...]
So we all know that we're going to be voting on dueling county reform issues in November — Issue 5 (“Real Reform Done Right”) and Issue 6 (“New Cuyahoga Now”). And let’s be clear: This IS a partisan issue, with political control of the county at stake. The Cuyahoga County' [...]
Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold and Illinois’ Dick Durbin have led a group of 10 U.S. Senators in introducing the JUSTICE (Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools in Counter-Terrorism Efforts) Act.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/justice-act-would-roll-b...
The act repeals many of the abusive provisions of the PATRIOT which were rushed through on the backs of the fear [...]
As some of you may be aware, the long-awaited (dreaded) health-care reform bill has emerged from Max Baucus' Senate finance committee, and it's as bad as everyone feared. He has given up virtually everything that would make health care accessible and affordable to regular people — including, of course, the' [...]
I got too overwhelmed with last-minute stuff to do for my photo show last night (6-10 p.m. tonight, Brandt Gallery, 1028 Kenilworth, Tremont) after I got home from our city Dems Club candidates endorsement meeting that, even though this was on my mind, I didn't have time to post.
Yesterday would' [...]
As many of you know, Jennifer Brunner has been availing herself of opportunities to expose herself and her ideas to a national audience via some of the biggest national progressive blogs since the beginning of the summer. She's held chats at Firedoglake, posted at DailyKos and written three thoughtful essays [...]
Although I know the dust has mostly settled on President Obama's Tuesday speech to school kids and its grotesque politicization by the right, I wanted to follow up on the item I posted last week about the Medina City School District because in the the end, the thoughtful superintendent re-assessed [...]
I just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on the attempts being made to alter Cuyahoga County's system of government, which I've written about previously. As expected, the plan formulated in private by a handful of the county's elite — now dubbed "New Cuyahoga Now" — is on the' [...]
Well, it's been a long day for me. I just got home from hanging my wrestling photo show which opens from 6-10 p.m. this Friday at the Brandt Gallery in Tremont (1028 Kenilworth, right across from Visible Voice Books where you should also stop — great indie bookstore with a [...]
Two evenings ago, I got an e-mail from a good friend of mine whose children attend the Medina City Schools, forwarding me an e-mail from the superintendent, Randy Stepp. His e-mail announced to parents that the Medina schools are now an official wing of the Republican party.
OK, maybe it [...]
Hey, all you Columbusians. Columbus-ites? Columbus-dwellers? Whatever you call yourselves, you have an opportunity tomorrow night to get up close and personal with two potential candidates for statewide office on the Democratic ticket: David Pepper, running for auditor, and Marilyn Brown, running for secretary of state.
Here is the info:
Introduction by [...]
I didn’t know that it was Women’s Equality Day until the email from the Jennifer Brunner campaign arrived.
http://jenniferbrunner.com/index.php/blog/post/womens_equality_day/#disq...
Actually, I didn’t even know there WAS such a thing. And I’m sure many people will shrug and go, “Why do we need that?” It was founded by Congresswoman [...]
I just got this email from the Kucinich campaign, talking about how he met Ted Kennedy for the first time when Kennedy learned that Dennis was in the hospital and came to visit him.
"He was visiting hospitals as part of his national effort to raise awareness of the" [...]
The website senateguru.com asked both Jennifer Brunner and Lee Fisher why they should be the candidate of choice for the progressive netroots, and posted their answers:
http://www.senateguru.com/diary/836/ohsen-exclusive-fisher-brunner-appea...
OK, so according to their post, they ACTUALLY asked them, "Why should the progressive netroots support your campaign in Kentucky's 2010 Democratic Senate" [...]
I'm not big on litmus tests for candidates. I didn't agree with Ted Strickland's "gun-owner's rights" position, although it's not a huge issue for me. Even more, I didn't like his vote while in Congress for the awful 2005 bankruptcy bill that enriched credit card companies at the expense of' [...]
I get a kick out of Bob Fitrakis — the lawyer, professor and journalist who was the 2006 Green Party candidate for Ohio governor. He’s the editor of freepress.org and, if a bit too conspiracy-minded for my taste at times, I have to give him credit for doing the field [...]
Anyone in Cuyahoga County paying even marginal attention to local politics is probably aware of the aggressive push to completely alter the county's governmental structure under the banner of "reform." A small group of the area's wealthy and powerful — and mostly Republican — leaders met behind closed doors and [...]
A little while ago, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the newest Supreme Court justice by a vote of 68 to 31. The 31 were all Republicans, of course, but a number of slightly more level-headed Republicans joined with their Democratic colleagues in confirming the highly qualified nominee. They includes George [...]
I didn't see anyone post an update on this so I thought I would.
Yesterday's election in Columbus gave Issue 1 — to raise the city income tax from 2% to 2.5% to provide for city services — a close victory of 52%-48%. As a result, the city will be able' [...]
I don’t know quite what to make of this. As we heard last week, the House passed an additional $2 billion for the “Cash for Clunkers” program, which was so wildly successful, it immediately blew through the money Congress had allocated. It then moved on to the Senate, which has [...]
Representative Dan Stewart of Columbus, chairman of the House Elections and Ethics Committee, has introduced a comprehensive elections-enhancement bill into the Ohio House of Representatives. HB 260 is intended to clarify confusing procedures, make the process of registering and voting clearer and simpler for both voters and workers, and introduce [...]
As you may have gathered from reports such as the one Anthony posted below about "teabaggers" disrupting an event with Cong. Steve Dreihaus (OH-01), the right – directed by the anti-heath-care interests — is coordinating efforts, not to have a discussion on points about health care but to shout [...]
Some things just make you shake your head in disbelief. This is one of them.
On Monday, the Columbus Dispatch's website posted an interview with Senator George Voinovich. No, that's not the problem.
Among other things, the soon-to-be-former senator identified the GOP's worst problem as "southerners. The party's being taken over" [...]
Well, Anthony, if you're not going to acknowledge it, I will, because someone should point our readers toward it:
Lee Fisher has finally re-designed and expanded his website to provide a little more in-depth information on his candidacy than was available before:
http://www.fisherforohio.com/home
I'm glad to see he's finally got an [...]
Editor's Note : The following is a piece from OhioDaily writer Anastasia Pantsios and, like all columns from our writers, is the opinion of only the author. The views expressed below are her own. The blog, as an entity, will likely not endorse in this race.
I’ve been meaning for a' [...]
I read something today on Bill Callahan's blog that absolutely took my breath away, awakening memories of a distant time (the ’60s) in a city far, far away (well, 350 miles to be exact: Chicago) when turmoil encouraged by the rich, the powerful and the opportunistic almost ripped my [...]
Get ready for the deluge of big-money ads promoting and attacking the latest Ohio casino scheme. It looks like the issue "Ohio Jobs and Growth" will be on the November ballot. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has certified that the issue exceeded by about 50,000 the number of valid signatures [...]
Shortly before midnight last night, I got an email from "Women4Lee," announced his Google group and looking for volunteer organizers across the state. A couple of comments. Undoubtedly, some will note that once again, Lee has Been reactive to something Jennifer's campaign has done: they sent out emails soliciting volunteer [...]
HRC, the gay-rights lobbying group, writes with some good news. Not only has the Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act passed the Senate (despite some last minute attempts by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions — quickly becoming the Senate's most notorious bigot for his behavior during the Sotomayor hearings — to derail [...]
Today, Jennifer Brunner sent out a press release questioning opponent Lee Fisher''s decision to resign from his job as Ohio director of development, apparently in order to devote his full time to campaigning and fundraising for the Senate seat both are running for.
While the role of lieutenant governor carries [...]
Senator Sherrod Brown, whose election in 2006 in large part rode on his rejection of the unfettered free-trade policies that have cost Ohio hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, posted a column today at Huffington Post called "America Needs a National Manufacturing Policy."
In it, he suggests that a coordinated [...]
So maybe THIS is what he was up to. Earlier today, an amendment to the House health-care bill that would permit states to institute single-payer health-care systems passed the House Committee on Education and Labor by a vote of 25-19: 12 Democrats and 13 Republicans, including the only other Ohioan [...]
So it looks like Mike DeWine has decided to throw his hat in the ring to run against attorney general Rich Cordray next year, because what Ohio really needs is more recycled old polticians they've already rejected.
Truthfully, I am not getting this. Is DeWine really that addicted to' [...]
Starting today (Friday) from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and running from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Wolstein Center, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit group called the National Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) is coming to town on its “Save the Dream” tour. Its stated goal is to help people [...]
Yesterday, as the House was debuting its health-care reform bill HR3200, Dennis Kucinich posted his thoughts on his website:
http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2802&Itemid...
As an early backer of single-pay bill HR676, he advocates for the elimination of private, for-profit insurance companies from the system altogether, in contrast to HR3200, which retains them while [...]
http://industry.bnet.com/media/10003052/dan-daves-really-dumb-idea-about...
The writer got the Marburger brothers confused, but otherwise, he asks the same question a lot of us are asking: Who the heck is the Plain Dealer talking about? And when are we going to see this list of "parasitic aggregators" who are destroying newspapers and making enormous [...]
The Plain Dealer blundered last weekend by pushing its attorney David Marburger’s confusing — and probably illegal and unenforceable — “plan” for saving newspapers by embargoing news for 24 hours and collecting fees from websites that use their news. Using columnist Connie Schultz as their mouthpiece, the paper promoted the [...]
Last spring, during the presidential primary:
"Fair or unfair—and I do think that it's a more concentrated criticism that Hillary gets on so many fronts; I think that's unfortunate. But fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it, really. You have to plow through that" [...]
Oh my lord! What a way to start the holiday weekend. Sarah Palin has not only announced that she will NOT run for a second term as governor but also will resign in the midst of her current term, effective July 26.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142175
Watch her announcement if you can without [...]
Some things are just too delicious not to share. This one's coming from the state in the union that has perhaps the highest per capta quota of the Crazy: Oklahoma. (A blog — I forget which one — took a poll a few years ago to learn which Senate delegation [...]
John Temple was editor and then publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, one of two Denver dailies. It shut down in February after publishing for 150 years. It was the paper from which I learned of Marilyn Monroe's death (my family spent every August in Colorado).
Clearly, he has personal reasons [...]
Daily newspapers see their longtime business model crumbling, and they are desperate. But their hunger to find a revenue source somewhere — anywhere — has led to some ideas that border on thievery and self-destruction.
And it’s sad to see a normally level-headed columnist like the Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz buy [...]
On Friday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill intended to be a first step in tackling global warming and energy independence. The bill, called the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (or, more familiarly, ACES), is intended to "create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence," [...]
The US Department of Health and Human Services has a website called healthreform.gov, which has a wealth of information about how stressed people in this country are to pay for health care. It's got a little map of the U.S., and if you click on your state, you can get [...]
Many of us have uttered those words while listening to the latest statement coming from the overtanned talking head of John Boehnhead (Oh-Unlucky 08). So maybe he should be careful about uttering them himself — don't remind us, Boehnhead!
http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=13...
This man, with the temerity to host a site called' [...]
For those who want to learn or participate in the discussion about changing the structure of Cuyahoga County's government, there is a forum from 4-6 p.m. this Thursday, June 25 in the atrium of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University (1717 Euclid Ave.). The [...]
...the more I am not liking it.
I attended a forum tonight at Antioch Baptist Church about the proposal for Cuyahoga County government "reform", sponsored by a new group called Men of Action.
Speakers included the Rev. Tony Miner, Harriet Applegate of the North Shore Federation of Labor, East Cleveland Mayor [...]
I attended yesterday's Pride Festival, even marched in the parade with Trinity Cathedral (lots of churches in the parade; more Unitarian-Universalists than I have ever seen in one place at one time — and I was raised as one). As we were lining up, the threatening clouds were moving off [...]
While gay activists across the country are howling in dismay at Barack Obama’s inexplicable timidity and backtracking on gay-rights issues, Jennifer Brunner is confronting the issue head on. Last week, she posted a statement on Huffington Post, expressing complete support for equal rights for all, including marriage. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-brunner/whats-there-to-get-about_... [...]
In my previous post, I linked to a Philip Morris column that basically states the Plain Dealer’s editorial stance on county “reform”: do it now, do it fast, anything is better than what we have — a reckless and unjustified position.
In the column, Morris scolds politicians who have opposed [...]
Here’s a column that perfectly summarizes — unintentionally — the reasons why this is the wrong time for county “reform” in Cuyahoga County, and why it should not be on the ballot in November and should be defeated if it is.
The Plain Dealer is on another of its [...]
