Around 2:00 a.m. Wednesday, Lorain, Ohio, police answered a 911 call from a relative of a suicidal woman with a handgun. Thanks to the police officers’ judgement, bravery, and some luck, the incident ended with a rescue, no shots fired, and no life lost. …
On Monday night, a crowd of some 7000 packed into the Cleveland State University arena to see, hear and rally for Bernie Sanders, as he pursues the United States presidency. Sanders spoke for 80 minutes, laying out his platform, one …
Among the ballot measures for the current election in Ohio is Issue 3, which:
[L]egalize[s] the limited sale and use of marijuana and create[s] 10 facilities with exclusive commercial rights to grow marijuana.
But that plain and accurate summary — from Ballotpedia — is not what Ohio voters will find on the ballot. Instead, …
Among the ballot measures for the current election in Ohio is Issue 1, which would block statehouse gerrymanders. It is the third Ohio anti-gerrymandering ballot measure in eleven years. …
My father told me that the Civil War soldier statues of the two sides, as a sign of peace, face away from each other — those of the Union facing north, and those of the Confederacy facing south. Before us was a fine example — – the stone soldier on the square in Bedford, Ohio. …
Several days ago, as I went through my copy of Mother Jones, my interest was caught by a photograph and note about something new to me — the sport of chessboxing. I have long thought chess to be the equivalent…
In a representative democracy legislators are supposed to guard and advance the welfare of the people. But some have blatantly and shamefully brushed the people aside, and proposed laws that mainly guard and advance the profits of the big corporation.…
Acrostic: a line-by-line piece of writing where the first letter, or other certain letter, in each line forms a message when read from the top – down. In the piece below, read down through the first (boldfaced) letters after “Out of many ” to see the message.
(Created on the Funny Times Cartoon Playground.) Grand Oil Party: What the G.O.P. stands for in the modern Republican Party. From Ronald Reagan to those that control today’s Congress and the majority of state houses, the Grand Oil Party. has…
Tick, tick, tick, … (1896) It’s been 119 years since the scientist Svante Arrhenius published his formula for the greenhouse effect, and the idea that the burning of coal, by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, would raise the earth’s average…