Ohio government issues

What happened to the Huber Heights YWCA, $500K grant and the former director? Photo of Shannon Isom

The YWCA needs to tell us Y

(editors note, this story is evolving as people send me tips and details, if you read it when it first came out- it’s got more. I’m getting more info almost hourly on this- including that the Dayton Daily sent a reporter out the day after this was originally published to “break the story.” I’ve had Read More

Panel convened to Remove Mike Foley from the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts office

Supreme Court to decide on Foley’s Suspension as Clerk of Courts

The Ohio Supreme Court announced today that they have issued an order to assign 3 judges to hear the request by the State of Ohio to remove Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Mike Foley from office pending the outcome of his 12 Felony indictments concerning his duties in office. The request by the State was Read More

Vote NO on Dayton Issue 6

Why Dayton voters should vote NO on Issue 6

At the South Dayton Democratic Club candidates forum, I sat and listened to multiple democratic candidates rail against school vouchers, charter schools and public dollars being funneled away from our public education system. Oh, and yeah, they are still questioning why our school funding formula is still unconstitutional since 1999. So why is the Dayton Read More

What we should have learned from issue 1

August 8, 2023 the gerrymandered Republican super-majority in the Ohio Statehouse decided to waste about $20M of the taxpayers money to hold a single issue referendum. Not a damn one of them will be held liable for this boondoggle. Issue 1, was an attempt to make it impossible for citizens to initiate a referendum or Read More

RIP citizen comments- victim of COVID or just too damn inconvenient?

Ohio has “Sunshine Laws” that are supposed to help provide transparency in government. Yet, for those of us who try to collaborate or suggest ideas to elected leaders, the place to do it was during “citizen comments” during public meetings. While the sunshine laws are toothless in Ohio- and force citizens to expend copious effort Read More

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