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Full Disclosure: my business, The Next Wave, does limited amounts of graphic design work and printing for the Sidebar and Brian Higgins. His websites for both the Columbus and Dayton restaurants are on our server. Front page, center, top of fold. Multiple photos. Even when Mayor Clay Dixon took me outside to be his punching [...]
Apparently, Jon Husted has been reading esrati.com Ohio’s elections chief is seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss elements of federal law that he says are preventing the state from maintaining accurate voter rolls. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO’-sted) says he sent a letter to Holder on Friday containing [...]
Sure, Ohio State makes a mint selling “officially sanctioned” merchandise. Terrelle Pryor jerseys made the school a lot of money before he tried to cash in on his fame and brought the machine down to its knees. Now, we’re going to try to solve our pre-K-12 funding problems by allowing schools to sell merchandise instead [...]
From the very first time I ran for office, I believed that government should stick to doing things that only government should do: provide universal services and amenities to the community it serves. Police, fire, roads, parks, water and sewer are great starting points. Some things aren’t so black and white: trash collection, golf courses [...]
As someone who has filed to run for office a whole bunch of times, I can tell you there is chapter and verse on every possible way to keep a candidate off the ballot. We’ve even had people rejected for the type of paper they used for their petitions. So, when the Ohio House and [...]
It’s funny- just as Secretary of State Jon Husted claims that the problems at the Montgomery County Board of Elections are a local issue- the Ohio Supreme Court decides in a Cuyahoga County case of BOE workers behaving badly that they work for the SOS: The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by two [...]
As one of the last stands of racism, Greene County became the only county with two state universities- back in 1964. That was when “White State” was founded- and the role of Central State was firmly assigned as a Negro school- of course, we sanitize it by calling it a HBCU- Historically Black Colleges and [...]
Does John Kasich really have a plan? I’ve heard some pretty smart folks call him an idiot- and these are people who have to actually deal with him. Some have called him a mad man- as in mad – crazy. But maybe he’s taking his orders out of an uninspired book I read years ago- [...]
Despite being a reported $8 billion in the hole, and needing to sell off roads, prisons, the cash cow liquor business, and ticking off every single state employee with SB5, Governor Kasich hasn’t made a peep about the payroll of the highest paid state employee- OSU Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel. In addition to the [...]
The Ohio EPA is discussing the licensing of compost heaps. Not the one in your backyard- but, if you have a community garden- the new standards will require logging of all waste contributed. That’s right- want to throw your banana peels and coffee grounds into a community compost pile (like we have in South Park) [...]