Election Hours Controversy Comes to Montgomery Country How we conduct elections in Ohio has become a contentious issue between Republicans and Democrats in recent years. The battle over voting rages over just how accessible voting should be made for those wishing to cast a ballot. During the 2008 election cycle, with Democrats in control, major [...]
Defend Hour Early Voting Privilege By Rana Odeh “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban – read African-American – voter turnout machine.” – Doug Preisse, Franklin County Republican Party Chairman and Elections Board member I am dumbfounded by the racist, incredibly revealing comment above, made by [...]
Voting Should Be Hard by Mark Luedtke I’ve read so much baloney about voting. Let’s cut through the crap. We are ruled by one Big Government Looting party which has two factions: Democrat and Republican. Every election is a civil war between these two factions. To the victors go the spoils. When Democrats took control [...]
Due Process is Due By saying Lieberman and Ritchie violated the law, Husted violates the law himself By A.J. Wagner It is interesting to debate the issues surrounding the Husted v. Lieberman and Ritchie affair – see this week’s forum on pages 6-7 – but just as interesting are the laws that apply to the [...]
Ohio ballot initiative takes on gerrymandering Every ten years as a result of the U.S. decennial census and pursuant to state and federal law, Ohio legislative districts and Ohio congressional districts are redrawn according to changes in population. According to current Ohio law, a five-person commission has the final say on the where the lines [...]
Gerrypandering By Ben Tomkins Redistricting a state like Ohio is a fairly complex task, particularly when radical changes are necessitated by the loss of two representatives. When I started to think of all the variables that must be taken into account, I nearly shot myself in the head. Trying to break a state like Ohio [...]
Voters First Ballot Initiative is about sore losing By Rob Scott Redistricting has always been a hot topic in politics. Commonly referred to as gerrymandering, the practice attempts to gain a political advantage for a particular party by manipulating geographic boundaries to create safe districts. Gerrymandering even occurred before the first election of the U.S. [...]
The King can do no wrong By A.J. Wagner David Esrati, a Dayton blogger and perennial candidate for office, can often be heard complaining that we need to update our laws from the 1785 Northwest Ordinance upon which they are based. He has a point, but some of our most archaic laws are actually based [...]
Curiously Curiosity Kudos to NASA, but what if the Mars landing failed? In the recent climate of Olympic competition we’re conditioned to cheer on winners. NASA’s recent Olympic-level engineering victory in landing the one-ton Curiosity robotic vehicle 100 percent intact on the surface of Mars makes it easy to cheer on NASA and its mission [...]
DOD gets cake; NASA gets crumbs By Marianne Stanley Hmmm. This is a really tough one (not!). Can we justify the $2.5 billion cost of NASA’s Curiosity rover that recently landed successfully on Mars, a planet that’s a minimum of 36 million miles from Earth? After all, these are fiscally rough times for this country, [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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