June 2010

Brookings Institution quantifies Turner’s failings of OH-3

Life has been good for “Meds, Feds and Eds” in the Miami Valley under Mike Turner- because that’s all we seem to have left. After GM closed its manufacturing plant here (after massive local tax dollar support- the clear coat paint line, not the federal bailout), NCR leaving (after massive Georgia and NYC public tax Read More

Dayton Daily thinks Touchdown Jesus burning is big news

Eleven stories, two editorials on the lightning strike on Touchdown Jesus in the Dayton Daily News- or should I say the “Touchdown Jesus News” Here is the complete listing of stories about the lightning strike on Touchdown Jesus: Sculptor: Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it Jesus statue fire damages estimated at $700,000 Read More

The wrong way to vet candidates

When Mike Bock, publisher of DaytonOS, and member of the Montgomery County Democratic Party Central Committee, stood up and tried to get an amendment passed for the party constitution to “Not endorse in primaries”– to let the people decide- the response of the “Party Faithful” was: “Well then, what would the screening committee do?” I Read More

The costs of campaigns

I’ll let you in on a little secret, the real reason we don’t have campaign finance reform is not because the politicians like raising money and figuring out ways to effectively win elections. It’s because there is a huge industry that it supports, and the biggest player is the mass media. Politicians buy TV ads, Read More

17.5% of Ohioians underemployed

This isn’t a comment on the Democrats or the Republicans in Congress- because they all have failed the American working class. Frankly, how we can let people make over a million dollars a year, while shutting down plants- sending people to the unemployment and underemployment lines is criminal. Especially while we are fighting two wars. Read More

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