Monthly Archives: June 2009

Burger King Ad May Promote Oral Sex

June 27, 2009
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Burger King Ad May Promote Oral Sex

Thanks to Mother Jones for this, but I think it originates from this site The Modern Voice. Some may find this funny. But suggesting that young women ought to believe that oral sex is like eating a hamburger demeans all of us. I think it represents the thinking of a 16 year old boy....

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Video | Rally at the Statehouse Oposing Cuts for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment

June 25, 2009
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Some video of a rally at the statehouse yesterday objecting to cuts in treatment for mental and alcohol and drug addiction. Source: The Columbus Dispatch

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Former Republican Mayor Buck Rinehart for the Tax Levy

June 23, 2009
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Past Columbus Republican Mayor Buck Rinehart today endorsed the proposed .5 percent increase in the city tax. Rinehart is the first high-profile Republican to come out in favor of the tax increase. “I know a lot of my Republican friends will be angry,” Rinehart told The Dispatch this afternoon. “But I asked myself, ‘What...

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City Workers to Lose Five Days of Pay

June 23, 2009
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City workers were told that in order to help balance the budget they were to take five days off without pay. I posted about how AFSCME 2191 voted to implement this policy here. In a hastily called initiative and with a badly worded ballot, members voted to take an entire week off. This would...

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Not All Opposed To New State Taxes

June 23, 2009
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On several occasions Ohio Gevernor Ted Strickland said he would not raise taxes. It appeared democrats and republicans in the General Assembly agreed. But now comes this. Today Grandview Heights Democrat Ted Celeste said… …23 other states have raised taxes already, and 13 more are considering it. “A number of states have heard from...

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I Thought I Voted for a Democrat

June 19, 2009
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For a few years I lived in southeastern Ohio and I voted several times for current governor Ted Strickland in his races for the U.S. House of Representatives. I did so under the assumption that he was a Democrat and at least shared some of my ideals. I voted for him for governor for...

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Chamber of Commerce Supports Tax Levy

June 18, 2009
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The Columbus Chamber of Commerce today voted to support the .5 percent increase in the city income tax. The group’s board of directors voted this morning to endorse the Aug. 4 ballot measure, which would raise the city’s tax rate from 2 percent to 2.5 percent. The Columbus Dispatch Another business group has supported...

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Dorrian Clobbers Todd In Tax Levy Debate

June 17, 2009
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Today on WOSU’s Open Line Columbus Auditor Hugh Dorrian and defeated candidate for mayor Bill Todd debated the proposed .5 percent tax increase. Once again Todd had no specific proposals to solve the budget crisis, he only had criticism for the income tax. In fact, he kept using examples of the state budget crisis...

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John Freshwater Files Lawsuit

June 15, 2009
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John Freshwater, the Mt. Vernon teacher accused of burning a cross into a student’s arm has filed a lawsuit. He is currently involved in a public hearing after being dismissed by the school board and is also part of a lawsuit by the parents of the student whose arm was burned. Use the search...

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Columbus Dispatch Endorses Tax Levy

June 14, 2009
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The Columbus Dispatch, a conservative newspaper, has endorsed the .5 percent income tax hike proposed for the August 14th ballot. To keep Columbus strong and enhance its future, city voters need to support Issue 1 in the special election Aug. 4. The Dispatch appears to get it. For several decades, Columbus has been the...

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A Central Ohio Social Worker striving to bring justice to the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio through respectful conversation.

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  • Police investigate death on the Hilltop
    Police haven’t determined what caused the death of a man who was found by a woman in her Hilltop home this morning, but the investigation will continue. Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, a Columbus police homicide detective, said the man was staying temporarily at the woman’s home at 69 S. Ogden Ave., but she didn’t know him very well. She called police at about 10:30 […]
  • Sheriff's office searches for suspects in Marysville abduction, rape
    The Union County sheriff’s office is searching for two suspects after a woman said she was abducted and sexually assaulted following a fake traffic stop. […]
  • Komen’s reversal on Planned Parenthood irks some
    When the leaders of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced yesterday that they were reversing their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, some donors who had been angry said all was forgiven. […]
  • Into the crossfire
    Laura Robinson said she no longer will jaywalk across Morse Road. The North Side resident watched a man die Thursday night after he darted across the busy roadway near Kingshill Drive and was struck by three vehicles. […]
  • Police ID pedestrian hit, killed Thursday on North Side
    Police this morning identified a man who was struck and killed Thursday while crossing a busy road on the North Side. Rene Antonio Deras, 44, of El Salvador, was crossing Morse Road near the intersection of Kingshill Drive at about 10:30 p.m. when witnesses said he was hit by at least two vehicles, one of which fled the scene. […]

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