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News Item · Common Dreams NewsCenter · Jun 19, 2013
Memo to Joe Biden: You lost on gun control. Move on.
After the shocking and senseless shootings and murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut late last year, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden felt sure they finally had a strong emotional issue to use to ram through stronger gun control laws in America. Wrong....
News Item · Capitol Hill Blue · Jun 19, 2013
The Secret Message in This Rand Paul Pic
The New Republic's profile of Sen. Rand Paul is well worth a look—and so is the remarkable cover photograph, which captures the Kentucky lawmaker crossing his fingers:
The New Republic
The amazing photo set off a round of accusations that the image had been Photoshopped to make Paul...
News Item · Mother Jones Politics · Jun 19, 2013
Talking climate change with Senator Grassley
Back in May, I joined several other OFA volunteers and visited United States Senator Chuck Grassley's Des Moines office to invite him to meet with us and discuss climate change. He agreed to speak with us over the phone, and on Monday we had a very productive conference call with the senator....
News Item · Organizing for America · Jun 19, 2013
Dohoney signs parking lease; changes can be made
City Manager Milton Dohoney signed the parking lease agreement Tuesday afternoon that will bring a $92 million up-front payment to city coffers, but council may still make some changes to the agreement.Tuesday, two Cincinnati council members - Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and Yvette Simpson - were...
News Item · Howard Wilkinson on WVXU-Cincinnati · Jun 18, 2013
Senate budget cuts schools by $533 million, compared to four years ago
The Senate-passed version of the state's 2014-2015 budget would reduce state funding to schools by $533 million, compared to 2010-2011, forcing 436 -- or three in four -- school districts to function on fewer resources than they had four years ago.
News Item · Innovation Ohio · Jun 18, 2013
Nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission outlines the Kasich jobless recovery
Today the House-Senate conference committee on the State budget met to begin discussing how to bridge the gaps between the stark differences between the budget the Republican House passed and the Republican Senate passed (the only things they seemed to have in common was an utter rejection of...
News Item · Plunderbund · Jun 19, 2013