Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

I Agree with Kasich for Once

April 24, 2011
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pill-doc

For those of us who work in the addiction world, we’ve known this was coming for a long time. Unfortunately, the media and government always seem late to the party. We’ve know for at least 4 maybe 5 years that the beginnings of an opiate epidemic was under way. However, no one listened to...

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Republican Official Doesn’t Even Know What She Did was Racist

April 18, 2011
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davenport

As many of you have probably heard, Marilyn Davenport, an Orange County Republican Official, sent out a racist email with Obama’s head photo-shopped onto a chimpanzee. Many republicans condemned it, but what I find more interesting is Mrs. Davenports reaction. She takes almost no responsibility for it. “I’m sorry if my email offended anyone,”...

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Conservatives are Targeting Michigan Professors

March 30, 2011
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Conservatives are Targeting Michigan Professors

This is amazing and rather chilling. Political operatives are trying to access several professors emails simply because they disagree with them. This is quite rare to seek academic emails under the Freedom of Information Act and can only be seen as an attempt to intimidate. The Mackinac Center For Public Policy, based in Midland,...

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Some GOP’ers are Just Getting Too Weird for Me

March 26, 2011
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Some GOP’ers are Just Getting Too Weird for Me

I’m not sure what has happened to the Republican party. It appears they have been taken over by birthers and tea party members. Two groups an old conservative would not have given a shit about. The GOP used to be about fiscal responsibility and not social issues. Now they want to be involved in...

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Letter from the NASW

March 25, 2011
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Social Work Reinvestment Act Reintroduced in 112th Congress The Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act (HR 1106/S. 584) was reintroduced on World Social Work Day, March 15, 2011.  This legislation was first introduced in the 110th Congress, and was important then. It is now even more timely and...

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The Madrigal Maniac

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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  • Pools given more time to provide access for disabled
    The deadline for public swimming pools to improve access for disabled people has been extended until January, the Department of Justice announced today. […]
  • Police say man caused $175,000 in damage during AC thefts
    Westerville business owners are on high alert after incurring more than $175,000 worth of damage from the theft of air-conditioning units during the past two weeks. Police say the thefts are the work of one man, whom they think has stolen 35 units for the scrap metal. […]
  • 'Fracking' oversight bill would drop public appeal process of permits
    A bill that’s intended to strengthen Ohio’s oversight of “fracking” and the oil and gas industry also would remove the public’s ability to challenge state-issued drilling permits. Energy companies eager to tap oil and gas in Ohio’s Utica shale must obtain permits before they can start drilling. However, a provision in the bill, which the Ohio Senate passed t […]
  • Family doesn't buy killer's story
    Sherrie Chafin-Eucker was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, one week after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the July 17 killing of Reeb, 50. The 48-year-old admitted that she shot Reeb in the chest with a .410-gauge shotgun early that Sunday morning. […]
  • Mumbah, patriarch gorilla at Columbus Zoo, dies at 47
    Mumbah, the patriarch gorilla and foster-father in the surrogacy program for baby gorillas at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, died this morning at age 47. […]

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