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. …
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…
The Ohio governor’s race seems to have turned on a character flaw of the Democratic candidate, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. The major news media have given wide and detailed coverage to the story that FitzGerald had been driving on an expired…
During the "Progressive Era" of the early 20th century, many states passed laws – up to a complete ban with penalties against officers – to keep corporations from meddling in politics. Today, big corporations warp politics in ways that go…