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Ohio lost 104K 20-34 year olds between ’95-’05; only coming back with families, maybe
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Young people go first for the jobs and then for the fun.
“I would’ve stayed if I could have found a decent enough job to hold me there,” said Bauser, a Springfield native who now works in tech support at the University of Phoenix, one of the world’s largest online universities. “I’ve always had good things to say about Ohio, except the economic decline.”
By contrast, he said, “It’s a booming economy out here.”
And although weather and the ability to find a date and/or mate also figures into the equation,
[Myron Levine, professor of urban studies at Wright State University] said employment is the biggest driver of migration, because young people have to believe they can “make it there.”
“I think a lot of this would be cured if all of us in the Midwest would be able to figure out a way to truly diversify our economy and get good quality, well-paying jobs.”
But Midwestern cities face a dilemma, he said.
To get good businesses, a region needs to offer a good work force. But to get a good work force, regions have to have the money to build a “high-quality, high-amenity environment,” which is difficult without good businesses to provide the tax base.
Richard Florida, an author, social theorist and professor of public policy at George Mason University, says in an article in the October Atlantic Monthly that many young people need to go to centers of creativity.
In the article “Where the Brains Are,” Florida argues that young, college-educated folks are clustering in a handful of superstar cities that he calls “means metros,” leaving the rest of the country behind.
“Some of the reasons for it are essentially aesthetic — many of the means metros are beautiful, energizing, and fun to live in. But there is another reason, rooted in economics: increasingly, the most talented and ambitious people need to live in a means metro in order to realize their full economic potential.”
When, if ever, will these folks return to Ohio?
Mark Salling, a researcher at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, said there is some evidence that people come back to Ohio after they’ve gotten their degree and some work experience.
There is no hard data, he said, but it’s true for a number of friends and colleagues.
“We have a joke that the hospitals in this area are all in cahoots,” Salling said. “They implant something in babies that are born and then they can call them back. They’re programmed to come back when they’re in middle age.”
It may not take that long for Demosthenous and her husband. She said they are already considering coming back to Ohio.
“Once we’re trained and we’ve started a family, you start to look for different things,” she said. “You start to look at being close to your family. … I think if you sit back, it looks pretty good to raise children and establish a family in Ohio.”
Does your story bear witness to these?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:07 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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28
Operation Homecoming: uncensored anthology of US military war stories from Afghanistan and Iraq
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I remember when I first heard about this NEA program because it sounded like it was in the same family of storytelling as the KnowledgeWorks project I’d just started. Except the NEA project would involve stories written by US military personnel and relatives themselves, with training from authors on how to compose.
Then, today, I heard the editor, Andrew Carroll, of the anthology, Operation Homecoming, on The World and learned about how the NEA didn’t censor anything. Not. a. thing. And I know I want to read this book.
You can read more here.
Has anyone else read it yet or does anyone know of anyone who has and what they thought?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:45 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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28
Is Rahm Emanuel a bully? And what will he want from Ohio’s newly elected?
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I remember the first time I heard, well, okay, I read Rahm Emanuel’s name. It was connected to 1993′s Travelgate brouhaha (he was accused of leaking news of the scandal and was demoted from one White House position to another in 1994). He was the young guy being taught a lesson, but you knew he’d come back. I imagine all the politicos around him said as much, “Rahm, you’re the young guy, this will build character, you’ll move on and succeed and it will be a blip.”
And a blip it is this week as two major magazines give him ink, ink and more ink.
First, I read Newsweek‘s lightweight story, some of which is also devoted to Rahm’s agent brother, Ari, in Hollywood.
Then, last night, after I read this piece in Fortune (oversized picture of him in the magazine has him on Euclid Ave. near the Cleveland Clinic I think, but it’s definitely Cleveland), I started to compose many questions about this guy and what he plans for Ohio, because, of course he has plans for Ohio. I just don’t know what they are, and I bet not a helluvah lot of Ohioans do.
Should we know what his plans are? Should we care what his plans are? Who do we trust? Who should we trust? And why are people who don’t live in Ohio and only get penalized by the bad outcomes of Ohio’s elections on a national basis get to wield so much influence? And just how much influence does Emanuel actually have over the Ohio Democratic Party or any other Democrat in Ohio?
Remeber this re: Paul Hackett and Sherrod Brown?
Now, I somehow missed it when Rahm became a Congressman from Illinois. I mean, I knew he was in with Senator Charles Schumer because their names kept popping up around the Hackett and Brown stuff late last fall and early winter (I didn’t really follow the Ohio 2nd special election that brought Hackett to the scene; not my district and I wasn’t blogging much then). And so I started to understand that they were tops at the DCCC and not so hot on Howard Dean of the DNC.
But then, last night, I read the Emanuel story a la Fortune. Read it yourself and form an impression. But here’s all I think you really need to read:
When it comes to slicing and dicing his Republican foes, Emanuel applies a Chicago pol’s sensibility that recalls that famous Untouchables line: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.” Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro describes Emanuel as a “reflection of Chicago politics, ward politics. It’s local, ethnic. You’re not in a tea party.” Colleague Ed Markey, a veteran House member from Massachusetts, says simply, “He’s not a political romantic.”
Mostly out of power for the past six years, the Democrats could use Emanuel’s comeback instincts. So the match is a timely one. But what’s driving Emanuel crazy right now is how little control he has over the party’s future-or his own. “Can we get the right candidates?” he asks. “Yes, and we busted our balls recruiting and expanding the field. Can we raise the resources? Yes. Can we help on issues? Yes.” But at the end of the day, he asks, “which way will the wind blow on Iraq? On energy prices? On the Middle East?”
“For a type-A personality like me, I hate that. I hate that,” he says, his voice trailing off as he spins through a Capitol building hallway. “Your fate is out of your hands.”
All I can say is that I would love to have a Capri Cafaro moment with Rahm. And, given the improbability of me ever meeting him, I imagine that I have plenty of time to compose just the right question. Control freak tendencies comes to mind…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:20 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 6 Comments
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28
NewAssignment.Net: Open Source Reporting to launch Spring 2007
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Okay. So the Plain Dealer, I’m told, won’t go for writing by wiki. How about this instead? They just got more seed money, this time $100K from Reuters.
Come on.
Sigh.
Change is so hard.
Here’s a kind of FAQ by Jay Rosen of PressThink about what NewAssignment.Net is and how bloggers can contribute.
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RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO – oh, wait, forget that name because we don’t want you voting for her
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Okay, now really.
The argument is, don’t follow the name game because this is one member of a named-family that shouldn’t be elected. But what then does the paper of record here do? They publish the name over, and over, and over, and over.
Now, see this editorial cartoon by Jeff Darcy in the Plain Dealer today? Could anything in the cartoon be more obvious than the name the paper doesn’t want you to choose?
And not about the vote on torture yesterday and a the few dems who crossed over?
And not about Ohio Attorney General candidates Marc Dann (D) and Betty Montgomery (R) piercing their jugulars?
And not about the GOP going to Minneapolis-St. Paul instead of Cleveland?
I suppose it’s divine intervention that I didn’t end up in newspapers before…whatever it is I do now.
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Ohio lost 104K 20-34 year olds between ’95-’05; only coming back with families, maybe
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Young people go first for the jobs and then for the fun.
“I would’ve stayed if I could have found a decent enough job to hold me there,” said Bauser, a Springfield native who now works in tech support at the University of Phoenix, one of the world’s largest online universities. “I’ve always had good things to say about Ohio, except the economic decline.”
By contrast, he said, “It’s a booming economy out here.”
And although weather and the ability to find a date and/or mate also figures into the equation,
[Myron Levine, professor of urban studies at Wright State University] said employment is the biggest driver of migration, because young people have to believe they can “make it there.”
“I think a lot of this would be cured if all of us in the Midwest would be able to figure out a way to truly diversify our economy and get good quality, well-paying jobs.”
But Midwestern cities face a dilemma, he said.
To get good businesses, a region needs to offer a good work force. But to get a good work force, regions have to have the money to build a “high-quality, high-amenity environment,” which is difficult without good businesses to provide the tax base.
Richard Florida, an author, social theorist and professor of public policy at George Mason University, says in an article in the October Atlantic Monthly that many young people need to go to centers of creativity.
In the article “Where the Brains Are,” Florida argues that young, college-educated folks are clustering in a handful of superstar cities that he calls “means metros,” leaving the rest of the country behind.
“Some of the reasons for it are essentially aesthetic — many of the means metros are beautiful, energizing, and fun to live in. But there is another reason, rooted in economics: increasingly, the most talented and ambitious people need to live in a means metro in order to realize their full economic potential.”
When, if ever, will these folks return to Ohio?
Mark Salling, a researcher at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, said there is some evidence that people come back to Ohio after they’ve gotten their degree and some work experience.
There is no hard data, he said, but it’s true for a number of friends and colleagues.
“We have a joke that the hospitals in this area are all in cahoots,” Salling said. “They implant something in babies that are born and then they can call them back. They’re programmed to come back when they’re in middle age.”
It may not take that long for Demosthenous and her husband. She said they are already considering coming back to Ohio.
“Once we’re trained and we’ve started a family, you start to look for different things,” she said. “You start to look at being close to your family. … I think if you sit back, it looks pretty good to raise children and establish a family in Ohio.”
Does your story bear witness to these?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:07 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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28
Operation Homecoming: uncensored anthology of US military war stories from Afghanistan and Iraq
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I remember when I first heard about this NEA program because it sounded like it was in the same family of storytelling as the KnowledgeWorks project I’d just started. Except the NEA project would involve stories written by US military personnel and relatives themselves, with training from authors on how to compose.
Then, today, I heard the editor, Andrew Carroll, of the anthology, Operation Homecoming, on The World and learned about how the NEA didn’t censor anything. Not. a. thing. And I know I want to read this book.
You can read more here.
Has anyone else read it yet or does anyone know of anyone who has and what they thought?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:45 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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28
Is Rahm Emanuel a bully? And what will he want from Ohio’s newly elected?
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I remember the first time I heard, well, okay, I read Rahm Emanuel’s name. It was connected to 1993′s Travelgate brouhaha (he was accused of leaking news of the scandal and was demoted from one White House position to another in 1994). He was the young guy being taught a lesson, but you knew he’d come back. I imagine all the politicos around him said as much, “Rahm, you’re the young guy, this will build character, you’ll move on and succeed and it will be a blip.”
And a blip it is this week as two major magazines give him ink, ink and more ink.
First, I read Newsweek‘s lightweight story, some of which is also devoted to Rahm’s agent brother, Ari, in Hollywood.
Then, last night, after I read this piece in Fortune (oversized picture of him in the magazine has him on Euclid Ave. near the Cleveland Clinic I think, but it’s definitely Cleveland), I started to compose many questions about this guy and what he plans for Ohio, because, of course he has plans for Ohio. I just don’t know what they are, and I bet not a helluvah lot of Ohioans do.
Should we know what his plans are? Should we care what his plans are? Who do we trust? Who should we trust? And why are people who don’t live in Ohio and only get penalized by the bad outcomes of Ohio’s elections on a national basis get to wield so much influence? And just how much influence does Emanuel actually have over the Ohio Democratic Party or any other Democrat in Ohio?
Remeber this re: Paul Hackett and Sherrod Brown?
Now, I somehow missed it when Rahm became a Congressman from Illinois. I mean, I knew he was in with Senator Charles Schumer because their names kept popping up around the Hackett and Brown stuff late last fall and early winter (I didn’t really follow the Ohio 2nd special election that brought Hackett to the scene; not my district and I wasn’t blogging much then). And so I started to understand that they were tops at the DCCC and not so hot on Howard Dean of the DNC.
But then, last night, I read the Emanuel story a la Fortune. Read it yourself and form an impression. But here’s all I think you really need to read:
When it comes to slicing and dicing his Republican foes, Emanuel applies a Chicago pol’s sensibility that recalls that famous Untouchables line: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.” Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro describes Emanuel as a “reflection of Chicago politics, ward politics. It’s local, ethnic. You’re not in a tea party.” Colleague Ed Markey, a veteran House member from Massachusetts, says simply, “He’s not a political romantic.”
Mostly out of power for the past six years, the Democrats could use Emanuel’s comeback instincts. So the match is a timely one. But what’s driving Emanuel crazy right now is how little control he has over the party’s future-or his own. “Can we get the right candidates?” he asks. “Yes, and we busted our balls recruiting and expanding the field. Can we raise the resources? Yes. Can we help on issues? Yes.” But at the end of the day, he asks, “which way will the wind blow on Iraq? On energy prices? On the Middle East?”
“For a type-A personality like me, I hate that. I hate that,” he says, his voice trailing off as he spins through a Capitol building hallway. “Your fate is out of your hands.”
All I can say is that I would love to have a Capri Cafaro moment with Rahm. And, given the improbability of me ever meeting him, I imagine that I have plenty of time to compose just the right question. Control freak tendencies comes to mind…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:20 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | 6 Comments
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28
RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO RUSSO – oh, wait, forget that name because we don’t want you voting for her
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Okay, now really.
The argument is, don’t follow the name game because this is one member of a named-family that shouldn’t be elected. But what then does the paper of record here do? They publish the name over, and over, and over, and over.
Now, see this editorial cartoon by Jeff Darcy in the Plain Dealer today? Could anything in the cartoon be more obvious than the name the paper doesn’t want you to choose?
And not about the vote on torture yesterday and a the few dems who crossed over?
And not about Ohio Attorney General candidates Marc Dann (D) and Betty Montgomery (R) piercing their jugulars?
And not about the GOP going to Minneapolis-St. Paul instead of Cleveland?
I suppose it’s divine intervention that I didn’t end up in newspapers before…whatever it is I do now.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:58 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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28
Ohio lost 104K 20-34 year olds between ’95-’05; only coming back with families, maybe
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Young people go first for the jobs and then for the fun.
“I would’ve stayed if I could have found a decent enough job to hold me there,” said Bauser, a Springfield native who now works in tech support at the University of Phoenix, one of the world’s largest online universities. “I’ve always had good things to say about Ohio, except the economic decline.”
By contrast, he said, “It’s a booming economy out here.”
And although weather and the ability to find a date and/or mate also figures into the equation,
[Myron Levine, professor of urban studies at Wright State University] said employment is the biggest driver of migration, because young people have to believe they can “make it there.”
“I think a lot of this would be cured if all of us in the Midwest would be able to figure out a way to truly diversify our economy and get good quality, well-paying jobs.”
But Midwestern cities face a dilemma, he said.
To get good businesses, a region needs to offer a good work force. But to get a good work force, regions have to have the money to build a “high-quality, high-amenity environment,” which is difficult without good businesses to provide the tax base.
Richard Florida, an author, social theorist and professor of public policy at George Mason University, says in an article in the October Atlantic Monthly that many young people need to go to centers of creativity.
In the article “Where the Brains Are,” Florida argues that young, college-educated folks are clustering in a handful of superstar cities that he calls “means metros,” leaving the rest of the country behind.
“Some of the reasons for it are essentially aesthetic — many of the means metros are beautiful, energizing, and fun to live in. But there is another reason, rooted in economics: increasingly, the most talented and ambitious people need to live in a means metro in order to realize their full economic potential.”
When, if ever, will these folks return to Ohio?
Mark Salling, a researcher at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, said there is some evidence that people come back to Ohio after they’ve gotten their degree and some work experience.
There is no hard data, he said, but it’s true for a number of friends and colleagues.
“We have a joke that the hospitals in this area are all in cahoots,” Salling said. “They implant something in babies that are born and then they can call them back. They’re programmed to come back when they’re in middle age.”
It may not take that long for Demosthenous and her husband. She said they are already considering coming back to Ohio.
“Once we’re trained and we’ve started a family, you start to look for different things,” she said. “You start to look at being close to your family. … I think if you sit back, it looks pretty good to raise children and establish a family in Ohio.”
Does your story bear witness to these?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:07 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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28
Operation Homecoming: uncensored anthology of US military war stories from Afghanistan and Iraq
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I remember when I first heard about this NEA program because it sounded like it was in the same family of storytelling as the KnowledgeWorks project I’d just started. Except the NEA project would involve stories written by US military personnel and relatives themselves, with training from authors on how to compose.
Then, today, I heard the editor, Andrew Carroll, of the anthology, Operation Homecoming, on The World and learned about how the NEA didn’t censor anything. Not. a. thing. And I know I want to read this book.
You can read more here.
Has anyone else read it yet or does anyone know of anyone who has and what they thought?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:45 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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28
Is Rahm Emanuel a bully? And what will he want from Ohio’s newly elected?
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I remember the first time I heard, well, okay, I read Rahm Emanuel’s name. It was connected to 1993′s Travelgate brouhaha (he was accused of leaking news of the scandal and was demoted from one White House position to another in 1994). He was the young guy being taught a lesson, but you knew he’d come back. I imagine all the politicos around him said as much, “Rahm, you’re the young guy, this will build character, you’ll move on and succeed and it will be a blip.”
And a blip it is this week as two major magazines give him ink, ink and more ink.
First, I read Newsweek‘s lightweight story, some of which is also devoted to Rahm’s agent brother, Ari, in Hollywood.
Then, last night, after I read this piece in Fortune (oversized picture of him in the magazine has him on Euclid Ave. near the Cleveland Clinic I think, but it’s definitely Cleveland), I started to compose many questions about this guy and what he plans for Ohio, because, of course he has plans for Ohio. I just don’t know what they are, and I bet not a helluvah lot of Ohioans do.
Should we know what his plans are? Should we care what his plans are? Who do we trust? Who should we trust? And why are people who don’t live in Ohio and only get penalized by the bad outcomes of Ohio’s elections on a national basis get to wield so much influence? And just how much influence does Emanuel actually have over the Ohio Democratic Party or any other Democrat in Ohio?
Remeber this re: Paul Hackett and Sherrod Brown?
Now, I somehow missed it when Rahm became a Congressman from Illinois. I mean, I knew he was in with Senator Charles Schumer because their names kept popping up around the Hackett and Brown stuff late last fall and early winter (I didn’t really follow the Ohio 2nd special election that brought Hackett to the scene; not my district and I wasn’t blogging much then). And so I started to understand that they were tops at the DCCC and not so hot on Howard Dean of the DNC.
But then, last night, I read the Emanuel story a la Fortune. Read it yourself and form an impression. But here’s all I think you really need to read:
When it comes to slicing and dicing his Republican foes, Emanuel applies a Chicago pol’s sensibility that recalls that famous Untouchables line: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.” Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro describes Emanuel as a “reflection of Chicago politics, ward politics. It’s local, ethnic. You’re not in a tea party.” Colleague Ed Markey, a veteran House member from Massachusetts, says simply, “He’s not a political romantic.”
Mostly out of power for the past six years, the Democrats could use Emanuel’s comeback instincts. So the match is a timely one. But what’s driving Emanuel crazy right now is how little control he has over the party’s future-or his own. “Can we get the right candidates?” he asks. “Yes, and we busted our balls recruiting and expanding the field. Can we raise the resources? Yes. Can we help on issues? Yes.” But at the end of the day, he asks, “which way will the wind blow on Iraq? On energy prices? On the Middle East?”
“For a type-A personality like me, I hate that. I hate that,” he says, his voice trailing off as he spins through a Capitol building hallway. “Your fate is out of your hands.”
All I can say is that I would love to have a Capri Cafaro moment with Rahm. And, given the improbability of me ever meeting him, I imagine that I have plenty of time to compose just the right question. Control freak tendencies comes to mind…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:20 pm September 28th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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28
Reason #41 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because you, someone you know, someone you love or someone related to you could become one of these stories. And even if you don’t know anyone who could become one of those stories (or you don’t think you know anyone like that), there is no any acceptable reason to support an activity that exacts such costs on others just so that you can reap what you consider entertainment or the opportunity to exercise an alleged personal liberty (that is not currently guaranteed by any constitution as a fundamental right) – at their cost. That is not the social contract.
Previous reasons to Vote No on Issue 3:
Reason 42
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote No on Issue 3.
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Reason #41 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because you, someone you know, someone you love or someone related to you could become one of these stories. And even if you don’t know anyone who could become one of those stories (or you don’t think you know anyone like that), there is no any acceptable reason to support an activity that exacts such costs on others just so that you can reap what you consider entertainment or the opportunity to exercise an alleged personal liberty (that is not currently guaranteed by any constitution as a fundamental right) – at their cost. That is not the social contract.
Previous reasons to Vote No on Issue 3:
Reason 42
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote No on Issue 3.
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Reason #41 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because you, someone you know, someone you love or someone related to you could become one of these stories. And even if you don’t know anyone who could become one of those stories (or you don’t think you know anyone like that), there is no any acceptable reason to support an activity that exacts such costs on others just so that you can reap what you consider entertainment or the opportunity to exercise an alleged personal liberty (that is not currently guaranteed by any constitution as a fundamental right) – at their cost. That is not the social contract.
Previous reasons to Vote No on Issue 3:
Reason 42
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote No on Issue 3.
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A Midautumn’s Night Rehm: Bliss Institute’s John Green mixes it up with Christian voters
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Need something to keep you awake?
Try this. I knew that was Professor Green (very distinctive voice, like Diane).
The description:
A recent poll suggests a growing number of conservative Christians have become disillusioned with the Republican party. We’ll hear what’s mobilizing Christian voters on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Guests
Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council
Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches, author of “Middle Church: Reclaiming The Moral Values Of The Faithful Majority From The Religious Right” (Simon and Schuster)
John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics, Pew Forum on Religions and Public Life and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
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From the AP:
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2004 directive by Ohio’s elections chief against exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson ruled that a verbal order by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell before the 2004 presidential election violated the press’ rights under the First Amendment.
The lawsuit was brought by five television networks – ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC – and The Associated Press, which had formed a consortium to collect exit-polling data in Ohio and other states.
“It’s a victory for certainly all the organizations that gather information from voters on Election Day,” said attorney Susan Buckley, who represented the news organizations. “It is very important that this information continues to be available not only to the public, but to scholars and historians and the like.”
Watson ordered Blackwell to issue an explicit clarification by Oct. 15 so that exit polls can take place in this year’s election.
Watson had issued a temporary order in 2004 that allowed the news organizations to conduct exit polls that year. His ruling Tuesday means polling can continue in the future, Buckley said.
Still working on finding the opinion.
UPDATE: Okay. Well, I looked at what I could and all I saw were dismissals of the case. I couldn’t find where Watson says there’s a violation of the press rights. But then, it’s way past the time I should be allowed to blog so who knows what I’m missing.
From The Plain Dealer.
From the Akron Beacon Journal.
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A Midautumn’s Night Rehm: Bliss Institute’s John Green mixes it up with Christian voters
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Need something to keep you awake?
Try this. I knew that was Professor Green (very distinctive voice, like Diane).
The description:
A recent poll suggests a growing number of conservative Christians have become disillusioned with the Republican party. We’ll hear what’s mobilizing Christian voters on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Guests
Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council
Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches, author of “Middle Church: Reclaiming The Moral Values Of The Faithful Majority From The Religious Right” (Simon and Schuster)
John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics, Pew Forum on Religions and Public Life and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
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From the AP:
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2004 directive by Ohio’s elections chief against exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson ruled that a verbal order by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell before the 2004 presidential election violated the press’ rights under the First Amendment.
The lawsuit was brought by five television networks – ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC – and The Associated Press, which had formed a consortium to collect exit-polling data in Ohio and other states.
“It’s a victory for certainly all the organizations that gather information from voters on Election Day,” said attorney Susan Buckley, who represented the news organizations. “It is very important that this information continues to be available not only to the public, but to scholars and historians and the like.”
Watson ordered Blackwell to issue an explicit clarification by Oct. 15 so that exit polls can take place in this year’s election.
Watson had issued a temporary order in 2004 that allowed the news organizations to conduct exit polls that year. His ruling Tuesday means polling can continue in the future, Buckley said.
Still working on finding the opinion.
UPDATE: Okay. Well, I looked at what I could and all I saw were dismissals of the case. I couldn’t find where Watson says there’s a violation of the press rights. But then, it’s way past the time I should be allowed to blog so who knows what I’m missing.
From The Plain Dealer.
From the Akron Beacon Journal.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:46 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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A Midautumn’s Night Rehm: Bliss Institute’s John Green mixes it up with Christian voters
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Need something to keep you awake?
Try this. I knew that was Professor Green (very distinctive voice, like Diane).
The description:
A recent poll suggests a growing number of conservative Christians have become disillusioned with the Republican party. We’ll hear what’s mobilizing Christian voters on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Guests
Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council
Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches, author of “Middle Church: Reclaiming The Moral Values Of The Faithful Majority From The Religious Right” (Simon and Schuster)
John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics, Pew Forum on Religions and Public Life and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:19 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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