Show Your Support for Medicaid Expansion! Hi Advocate, Will you take 5 minutes to send one email and make four calls to make sure the Ohio House keeps Medicaid expansion in the state budget (see the instructions below)? Legislators are currently on spring break. The House Finance committee will soon vote the budget out...
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From: NAMI.org March 2013 Enrollment Now Open for Family Class NAMI Franklin County is now registering for the next session of Family-to-Family classes. SATURDAYS 2-4:30 pm April 6-June 22, 2013 Redeemer Lutheran Church, 43227 OR TUESDAYS &THURSDAYS ****New 6-week format**** 6:30-9 pm April 9-May 16, 2013 NAMI Ohio, 43215 Space is limited and classes...
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I am fond of saying that every generation has its challenges and certainly this generation faces some daunting ones. I think what will make it even more difficult for those in the future are the rising number of groups who are quite frankly, bat shit crazy. I would include in this cabal the Tea...
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I was not close friends with Dr. Ross who passed away last week. But I knew him from the two classes I had taken from him at the Ohio State College of Social Work in 2001 and 2002. The syllabus was useless with him. He was an experiential teacher and class was about whatever...
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Government Relations Action Alert September 11, 2012 SSBG: Tell your Senators and Member of Congress to Protect the Social Services Block Grant from Budget Cuts and Elimination Take Action! September 11, 2012 Background Earlier this year the House of Representatives approved a bill that would completely eliminate the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Although...
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Imaging loaning a large amount of money to a group of wealthy individuals, instead of returning it, they let it trickle back to you in small amounts. Obviously this makes no personal financial sense, but that is trickle down economics and the Republicans have used this scam for years. There is a reason this...
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Recently The Columbus Dispatch wrote an editorial titled Undue Process. The Big D’s opinion was that firing bad teachers should be easier and SB5 would accomplish that. The problem is the editorial points out more problems with SB5 than solutions. In the editorial the Dispatch gives two case scenarios where teachers, who where admittedly...
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John Freshwater, the cross burning and constitution violating ex-science teacher is in the news again. The Columbus Dispatch reports that thanks to the Rutherford Institute he has had a letter of admonishment removed from his file at the Ohio Department of Education. What does this mean? Exactly nothing. Freshwater still has his license to...
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While the General Assembly continues to argue over election law and what constitutes proper identification for voting, I decided to test the system myself. Since most people who seek an Ohio ID are without a drivers license, I started with that assumption. I went to the Hilliard BMV and was told I didn’t have...
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Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, had previously expressed his dismay at the Republican controlled General Assembly for wanting a bill passed to require voters to have a photo ID. Today he got his wish, maybe. The photo ID requirement was pulled from the elections bill although the Republicans said they would have...
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