Like all but a handful of Ohioans, on the night of Tuesday, December 6, I was busy doing something other than being on the floor of the Ohio House of Representatives’ main chamber. However, unlike too many other Ohioans, I was checking Twitter and Facebook so frequently that I missed marking down the scores for…
Back in the day, when one blog would go after another blog, we called it a flame war. Why we did it? Who can say. We were picked on so often by so many non-blogs, it hardly seemed productive to pick on each other. But mostly it was tied to legitimacy and eyeballs. At least…
I haven’t been blogging much lately for a variety of reasons, but I still receive a lot of solicitations to put up blog posts for all sorts of entrepreneurs thinking I need content. The last thing I need is content – it’s the overwhelming quantity of content I have to put down in writing that…
Seriously. This is what the people appointed by Ohio Governor John Kasich have decided to do: The state school board voted Monday night to eliminate the so-called “5 of 8” rule that sets the minimum number of school nurses, librarians, counselors and arts teachers that school districts must have. It will now be up to each…
Mentoring is absolutely critical to pretty much everyone’s success. One of my social work field placements nearly 25 years ago was with the mentoring portion of Career Beginnings and focused on inner-city high school students in the Cleveland area. So to read about the unnecessary injection of a religious-oriented requirement into the new $10 million…
Who will you want to communicate with if you have a particular issue? In addition to anyone else you might normally consult, you can now see which members of the Ohio House will be in leadership roles and there are intriguing selections from Northeast Ohio. I’ve highlighted in red font the reps I recognize as…
This is the one I cannot get over: Just 22 out of 246. Less than one in ten – less than one in ten. That’s what the U.S. House majority party has for women in its delegation. This is how you end up with an all-male set of U.S. House committee chairs getting recommended. (On…
I’ve been there and done that when it comes to being handed a budget with less than 24 hours to review it before being asked – and pressured – to vote for it. I didn’t vote for it then, and I wouldn’t and I won’t under similar circumstances anywhere else. And I’d say – and…
In a state where a mandate to have an unconstitutional public school funding formula overhauled is ignored for more than 15 years, how is it that a respected and reasonable charter school report recommends that more funding is needed for their schools to succeed? Let’s unpack why this is such an odd and uncomfortable juxtaposition…
Union rights and the minimum wage as issues in Ohio will not be taking a rest from debate, no matter what we read about Ohio Governor John Kasich’s plans excluding right-to-work in 2014. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren will be making sure of this, starting today with a briefing in which, reportedly, she will: …out the…
