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Black voters in Ohio will be impacted by Issue 1. How? Depends on who you ask.
Opponents of Ohio’s Issue 1 redistricting reform claim it would be bad for communities of color. Supporters of the proposal to replace politicians with a citizens commission point to the ways the current maps crack and pack Black voters. The Issue 1 proposal would replace the current Ohio Redistricting Commission made up of seven elected […]
Sixty-two acres of land at Ohio’s Leesville Wildlife Area are one step closer to being fracked
About 62 acres of Leesville Wildlife Area were approved to move forward to bidding for fracking during Monday’s seven minute Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management meeting. This is about 15% of the total land in Leesville Wildlife Area, which is located in Carroll County. “The commission did not consider any ‘highest and best’ bids […]
Report: Billionaire investors driving homelessness, housing costs
It's not news that there is a shortage of affordable housing in the United States, and that's driving up rents and mortgages and keeping many homeless. But a report published on Monday points to an important cause of the problem: billionaire investors parking their money in real estate in ways that harm the less well-off.
We went to Ireland to escape election stress, but found Europeans very nervous about America too
We ducked into a Dublin pub to grab a quick pint and wound up getting an earful on the American presidential race from nervous Europeans. Their anxiety about the U.S. election was off the charts. We traveled across the pond to escape the stress of politics back home, but these folks talked of nothing else. […]
Department of Labor releases AI best practices for employers
The U.S. Department of Labor has released a list of artificial intelligence best practices for developers and employers, aiming to help employers benefit from potential time and cost savings of AI, while protecting workers from discrimination and job displacement. The voluntary guidelines come about a year after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to assess the […]
Michigan independent redistricting commission members on opposite sides of Ohio Issue 1
Two members from Michigan’s independent citizens redistricting commission stand on opposite sides of the campaign for the Issue 1 ballot initiative that would establish a similar commission in Ohio by removing politicians from the process of drawing districts. The commission created by the state up north has come up a number of times since Ohio’s […]
More than 660,000 Ohioans have voted in the election so far
More than half a million Ohioans have cast their ballot in the election so far. Combining absentee and early voting, more than 660,000 Ohioans have voted as of Friday morning, according to the Ohio Secretary Of State. A majority have been through early voting, which takes place at your local county Board of Elections. Early […]
Election Rizz: Here’s what’s driving Gen Z to the polls this November
For many Gen Zers in Ohio, this coming November will be their first time voting in a presidential election. Kent State University students say they are ready to have their voices heard — specifically on social issues. Pew Research Center defines Generation Z as people born from 1997 through 2012. The ‘Zoomers’ grew up in […]
Mark Cuban, a top Harris surrogate, clarifies position on antitrust official
Mark Cuban, a billionaire investor who has been urging his peers to support Vice President Kamala Harris, on Thursday clarified his views on whether Harris should reappoint Lina Khan to head up the Federal Trade Commission. In an email to the Capital Journal and on a podcast, Cuban said that he supports most of what […]
Christian Nationalism shouldn’t be the face of Christianity
On Thursday, Oct. 3, I participated in a prayer vigil outside the Essential Conference. The Essential Conference was organized by the Center for Christian Virtue and held in Columbus, Ohio. Funded in part by the Heritage Foundation, the conference was a platform for promoting Project 2025. Project 2025 is a diabolical attempt to recast American […]
Rhetoric versus reality: Addressing common misconceptions about immigration
Among the most persistent political talking points raised by opponents of immigration is that migrants bring crime with them into the U.S. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” former President Donald Trump famously said on the campaign trail in 2016. “Has anybody ever seen the movie ‘Gangs of New York’?” Republican vice […]
Trump courts Latino voters at Univision town hall, and Harris ventures onto Fox News
WASHINGTON — With less than three weeks to Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent last week zeroing in on undecided voters, in a race that polls have in a dead heat. In Doral, Florida, Trump made his pitch to undecided Latino voters for an hour-long Univision town hall and […]
Where Harris, Trump campaigns stand on tech policy
Though technology policy isn’t one of the main drivers getting voters out to the polls in the upcoming presidential election, the speed in which technology develops will undoubtedly impact the way everyday Americans communicate, work and interact with the world in the next four years. Concern about artificial intelligence’s role in the election plague the majority of […]
While criticizing housing costs, Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno invests with speculators
Republican Bernie Moreno’s U.S. Senate campaign is premised on a straightforward argument. The increasing cost of gas, groceries and housing are putting the American Dream out of reach. But Moreno isn’t an obvious messenger. His personal fortune would make him one of the richest members of Congress if elected, and his family was wealthy and […]
Both presidential candidates are courting Wall Street. Will antitrust enforcement be the cost?
In a tight, historically expensive presidential election, both candidates are seeking the support of powerful business interests. That’s raising fears that newly robust antitrust enforcement under President Joe Biden will be short lived. A huge, bipartisan majority of Americans supports the enforcement of laws meant to curb anticompetitive abuses. But the candidates aren’t saying whether […]
What Harris and Trump’s have said about fracking and the environment
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both say they don’t want to get rid of fracking, but that’s about where their similarities seem to end when it comes to their stance on the environment. Harris flip-flopped on her position of fracking. When she ran for president in 2019 she said she wanted […]
Lying, liars, and the lies that they tell
When politicians and public figures lie to us, they are tacitly calling us stupid and weak. Stupid enough to believe their lies; weak enough to accept them. As such, lying is a contemptuous act. Humans are social creatures. Lying is anti-social, and a debasement of both human nature and the trust and order on which […]
Guns: Where do Trump and Harris stand?
WASHINGTON — A mass shooting at a Georgia high school in September thrust the issue of gun violence to the forefront of the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump agree that gun violence is a major problem, but they offer strikingly different views on how to address it. Two 14-year-old […]
Ohio’s child poverty rate was 17.7% in 2022, according to new report
Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.4% in 2022 and the state’s child poverty rate was 17.7%, according to the latest report from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies. While the state’s overall poverty rate is the same as last year’s report for 2021, this is slightly higher than the national poverty rate of 12.6%. This […]
Ohio election administrators say their workers are overworked, underpaid, and strained by attacks
Ohio’s local election workers are overworked, underpaid and strained by conspiratorial attacks, and the state could be doing more to leave politics out of the election process, according to a voting rights group who talked with local election administrators. All Voting is Local Ohio partnered with research firm Public Circle, LLC, to study the evolution […]
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