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 of…
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 are…
Government Overstep: OARnet Represents High Cost to OH Taxpayers By Gail Garbrandt Rubert I have been working in politics for nearly 30 years, both in Washington, DC and here in Ohio. I have seen good economies turn bad, bad economies revive and, correspondingly, seen budgets fall from surplus to deficit and deficits, when smart policies…
When I first heard about the bill I did not need to check the political affiliation of the sponsor. It’s mean spirited so of course It’s a Republican. Sen. Tim Schaffer, R-Lancaster has introduced a bill that would require welfare recipients to answer whether they have used drugs, if they answer yes they will be…
I’ve seen some pretty bad spokespeople, but Jason Mauk may be the worst of all and Governor John Kasich agrees with him. Mauk is the spokesperson for Building a Better Ohio, the group that supports Issue 2 (SB5). This is the organization that pirated an ad from We Are Ohio, the group that is against…
This should make all Ohioans mad as hell. As is typical of a republican led effort, the lies and distortions keep pouring in. I’m talking about SB5 and Issue 2. The Building a Better Ohio the group that supports issue 2 have taken the words of Marlene Quinn from a We Are Ohio ad and…
One out of eight drivers in Ohio are without a drivers license. Many continue to drive and have multiple offenses for operating a motor vehicle without a license. The average is 2.8 convictions per driver. Of the almost one million drivers who have a suspension, there are substantial number of drivers who have lost their…
This afternoon the Columbus Dispatch is reporting that 1 in 4 Ohio families with children went without food last year. You can read the article here. This piggybacks on my previous post about money for TANF. Youngstown was 3rd on the list of food hardship while Dayton was 22nd and Columbus 31st. Factors include the…
Ohio Democratic party chairman Chris Redfern sent out a fundraising email today to point out how close Governor Kasich is to News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch. News Corp has been hacking the cell phones of child abuse victims, 911 victims, and bribed police. These are just the facts that Murdoch has stated are true. As Redfern…
I have written before about the scourge of new designer drug’s that mimic the high of marijuana, cocaine, and hallucinogens. That does not include the prescription drugs that are over prescribed and creating addicts from the genetically willing and those in legitimate pain. To be sure, Ohio has had a response under the current Republican…
