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Ohio Dem Leaders Hypocritical on Campaign Disclosure
To remedy a broken campaign finance system, the 2016 Democratic Party Platform advocates a number of reforms, including ending “secret, unaccountable money in politics by requiring . . . significantly more disclosure and transparency.”
In…
Ben Fold’s “Mister Peepers”
In early September of this year, the Washington Post created what was called an alternative storytelling issue in which it solicited news stories through non-traditional media. The issue included poems, a board game, a three-act play and a Trump-…
ColumbusMediaInsider: Dispatch Ignores Reporting, Endorses Yost
The Columbus Dispatch's opinion writers do not take its news coverage seriously.
A few weeks ago, the newspaper/website took down four Republican candidates for statewide office for being asleep at the switch while ECOT and its charter…
Bob Bites Back: Electile dysfunction
White Boy Rich
Now it all makes sense. In 1992 I ran against John Kasich in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District. Everyone told me Kasich liked to smoke a little dope, and later Roger Stone would finger him as the man who…
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