How Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is Making Life Hell for Women Seeking Abortions
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the latest Republican to step into the presidential fray, has widely been labeled the moderate in a GOP field that tilts sharply to the right. Climate change? It’s real. Common...
View ArticleCincinnati Cop Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black Man
Here are the latest developments: Officer Ray Tensing’s body-cam footage has been released (see above). The University of Cincinnati fired Tensing following the indictment. Tensing, who has turned...
View ArticleMother of Cincinnati Police Shooting Victim Calls for Justice in This...
The grief-stricken family of Samuel DuBose, a 43-year-old black man who was shot and killed by University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing during a July 19 traffic stop, held an emotional...
View ArticleGeorgia Is Illegally Segregating Students With Behavioral Problems. There’s a...
A US Department of Justice investigation has found that the state of Georgia is illegally segregating students with behavioral and emotional disabilities. The probe found not only that this sorting...
View ArticleCorroborating Cops in Sam DuBose Case Were Involved in Another Death of...
University of Cincinnati Police Officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd corroborated Officer Ray Tensing’s seemingly false account of what happened before he shot and killed unarmed black man Samuel...
View ArticleThe State Department Just Released a New Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails....
On Friday afternoon, the State Department released a new batch of 1,356 emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The emails are part of over 55,000 pages of correspondence that had...
View ArticleCalifornia Becomes First State to Ban Grand Juries in Police Shooting Cases
California this week became the first state to ban the use of secret grand juries when deciding whether to indict police officers in cases of deadly force. The bill, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on...
View ArticleOhio Planned to Import Death Penalty Drug Illegally
The state of Ohio planned to illegally import sodium thiopental, a drug used for executions, according to a Food and Drug Administration letter obtained by BuzzFeed through a Freedom of Information...
View ArticleUnder John Kasich, Ohio’s Charter Schools Became a “National Joke”
When Leon Sinoff was asked to sign off on a building lease for Imagine Columbus Primary Academy in Columbus, Ohio, in the summer of 2013, he had little reason to be skeptical. Before Imagine Schools,...
View ArticleOhio Abortion Bill Puts Kasich in an Awkward Position
Ohio, a state often considered ground zero for anti-abortion legislation, finds itself at the center of the latest reproductive rights controversy—one that could force its governor, Republican...
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