Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Brady Center Gives Obama a Failing Grade

January 29, 2010
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This from the president of The Brady Center. We know that President Obama supports sensible measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children. Unfortunately, in his first year in office, the President showed no signs of leadership on the issue. We understand that the President had a lot of important...

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Strickland Must Have Been a Lousy Psychologist

January 27, 2010
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Yesterday, Governor Ted Strickland ( I thought I voted for a Democrat) once again ignored mental health and addiction issues in his State of the State address. Before the speech, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Janetta King, Strickland’s policy director, spoke in a conference call with health and human-services advocates. The advocates were told...

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One in Five Central Ohio Households Face a Food Hardship

January 26, 2010
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A new report by the Food Research and Action Center states that one in five Columbus area households faced a food emergency in 2008 and 2009. A “food hardship” is defined as not having enough money to buy needed food. The question pollsters asked was, “Have there been times in the past twelve months...

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The U.S. Air Force Responded to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove

January 25, 2010
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It was a different time. There was no internet, no cable, and the Cold War was in high gear. It was 1964. I was eight years old and still remember a drill where we dove underneath our desks in case of a nuclear attack from the “Russkies.” I guess my school desk had some...

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Opposition to Moving Columbus Casino Starting

January 24, 2010
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Already some in the State of Ohio are upset that Columbus is trying to change the site of their casino that was foolishly written into the Ohio Constitution. I remember after the vote, there were some who opposed Issue 3 who said it was over and were willing to give up the fight. I...

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West Side Hopes Casino Relocation Will be a Boon

January 23, 2010
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Penn National has agreed to move it’s casino to the west side where the abandoned Delphi plant is located. Cheryl L. Grossman, the Ohio House of Representative from Grove City where the casino will reside has created legislation that will allow for a vote on a constitutional amendment to allow this to happen. Initially,...

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Columbus Public Health Employee Info Stolen

January 23, 2010
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This from The Columbus Dispatch. Columbus police are investigating why a person possessed financial and other personal records of city health-department employees that could be used to commit identity theft. The person had so many employee records that “We don’t know exactly what that information is,” said police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner. Names and...

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When Will the Freshwater Hearing End?

January 22, 2010
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Is this Freshwater hearing ever going to end? John Freshwater is the teacher fired by the Mt. Vernon school district for teaching creationism and burning crosses into students arms. By state law he is entitled to a hearing before the firing is final. The final decision was supposed to be handed down today. But,...

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Kevin DeWine Demeans Social Workers

January 21, 2010
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Recently I posted about a CNN study that said Social Work the most stressful underpaid job in America. Yet these dedicated individuals continue to offer help to those most in need. Still, Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine said the following regarding Governor Strickland’s selection of Yvette McGee Brown for Lieutenant Governor. He’s had nearly...

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Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot Again

January 15, 2010
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O.K. Conservatives. Defend this. On his show Wednesday, Limbaugh was asked by a caller about the president urging Americans to go to Whitehouse.gov to contribute to the Red Cross to help Haitians. “Would you trust that the money is going to go to Haiti?” Limbaugh said. “Would you trust that your name is going...

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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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