2018-01-13 17:56
David A. Graham’s latest in The Atlantic, “There’s No Way Out”, is subtitled, “Trump’s presidency may be a dysfunctional disaster, but there’s no ap… Read More
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2018-01-12 16:38
For more than a year, many United States citizens have been expressing unease when it comes to talking about whether our country’s president has a personality disorder or is behaving i… Read More
2018-01-11 04:52
This is a excerpt from a longer work in progress. When you’re 54 years old and you haven’t had a physical exam in four years, you need to prepare. I shouldn’t have waited f… Read More
2018-01-10 04:30
When it comes to supporting people for public office, we think we know what we don’t want and maybe what we do want, and then we find ways to disqualify people one by one because they… Read More
2018-01-09 04:15
I was on the treadmill. It was late 2016. I caught myself watching Good Morning America after 8am, instead of C-SPAN, CNN or MSNBC. I never watched “those” morning shows –… Read More
2018-01-08 23:15
I’m pleased to report that I followed up this morning’s blog post regarding HB 457 with an email to State Rep. Antani. I sent him a link to the post and an invitation to visit wi… Read More
2018-01-08 13:12
On Wednesday, January 3rd, the Dayton Daily News reported that Ohio State Representative Niraj Antani (R-26, Miamisburg) is “pushing a bill [HB 457] that would require people on parole… Read More
2018-01-07 04:16
Thank you to everyone reading WLST. On one hand, I can’t believe I didn’t write a single word here throughout 2017. On the other hand, I know exactly why I didn’t and will… Read More
2018-01-06 04:53
From BuzzFeed two days ago about email content in a 2016 Breitbart-related exchange that reflects at least one true thing expressed by Steve Bannon:
In response to Bannon’s criticism o… Read More
2018-01-05 05:39
This morning, on my Facebook page, I posted the following question: “Do you wear makeup if you know you’re not leaving your house for the day?” People – including a f… Read More
2018-01-04 04:55
I don’t feel like I can walk under ladders every day, but generally speaking, I’m lucky and I’ve even been able to climb higher on the ladder of political engagement than I… Read More
2018-01-02 12:39
You’re seething. You cannot believe, again, what is coming from the Twitter handle of the person the electoral college placed in the White House. Tonight, he’s saying his button… Read More
2018-01-02 04:55
In Spring 2017, I was flattered and thrilled to have a writer friend refer me to BUST Magazine for a freelance gig on how to run for office. “Don’t Get Mad, Get Elected: The How… Read More
2016-12-23 19:49
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. How… Read More
2016-12-02 03:40
There are probably ten or twenty books-worth of articles now in existence that speculate as to why Donald Trump does anything he does. But I find the speculation around why Trump keeps doing… Read More
2016-11-30 16:32
In the Spring of 1982, no longer a Chinese major or a freshman, I began to finish off the liberal arts requirements at my new college within the same university. I was particularly taken in… Read More
2016-11-29 17:27
To distract from other distractions, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced today that Mr. Trump would go on a “thank you tour”. It reportedly will start… Read More
2016-11-29 04:26
Donald Trump went on yet another Twitter tirade Sunday. For anyone keeping track, there was this one and this one in July, this one in September, a mini one in October during the Veep debate… Read More
2016-11-27 23:50
People with grandiose and fabricated realities will do everything and anything they can to keep that reality in place. If you want to understand what Donald Trump says, when he says it and w… Read More
2016-11-26 04:58
Do not trust Donald Trump, unless you want to be disappointed, repeatedly. Not because he lies. Not because he exaggerates. Not because he has evil intent. But because he will always put him… Read More
2016-11-24 05:11
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… Read More
2016-11-22 13:51
The allocation of finite resources. It is at the bottom of everything, or at least so much. Including how we have notions of race and privilege. It is what makes the phrase, “From each… Read More
2016-11-21 14:19
Back in September, I got a request to speak to elementary and middle school students at a local Jewish day school as part of a day of election events held on election day itself. I’d a… Read More
2016-11-20 16:21
From George’s Flickr.com
The word “BLOG” is at the center of this image but it should be “George”. George Nemeth was the hub of Northeast Ohio blogging during i… Read More
2015-05-15 21:54
It’s just a print paper but I still get it. I still read it. So do a few hundred thousand folks, especially with the Cavs moving forward in the NBA conference post-season. So even thou… Read More
2015-04-13 00:31
From the Vox coverage, written by Jonathan Allen:
Tellingly absent from the [launch] video is a staple of campaign ads: Any hint of a testimonial for Clinton. The people in it talked about t… Read More
2015-04-12 20:24
My quick assessment on today’s announcement from Hillary Clinton that she is indeed running to be elected president in 2016, is that she’s taking pages from Obama and that’… Read More
2015-04-12 19:34
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2015-01-27 15:58
2015-01-14 16:16
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 f… Read More
2015-01-13 12:28
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 leader… Read More
2008-11-29 15:35
I disagree entirely with this “but look how much he’s done for us” excuse for the White House Hannukah invite snafu this year: Now, some in the community and media are havi… Read More
2008-11-27 13:51
From Ha’aretz: A militant holed up at the Chabad headquarters in Mumbai on Thursday phoned an Indian television channel to say he was prepared to free his Israeli hostages if the gover… Read More
2008-11-27 13:36
Many thanks (ah! something else to give thanks for) to Lisa Renee of Glass City Jungle for mixing together all the ingredients that produced this tasty edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politi… Read More
2008-11-26 22:22
Oy gevalt: The president and the first lady invited leaders of America’s Jewish community for a Hanukkah reception at the White House next month – but raised more than a few eyeb… Read More
2008-11-26 16:43
I could, and I will, provide links and excerpts of what the day is about and why it exists (it was yesterday and is November 25 every year), but this story from the AP about how Taliban in P… Read More
2008-11-26 13:46
This news isn’t really news in the sense of being new, especially to anyone who blogs or gets their information online. But it’s interesting to see the critical mass of dat… Read More
2008-11-25 21:30
From my inbox (does not seem to be available at Women’s Media Center’s website, but there are a lot of tools for news and info there on sexism in the press, women in the media et… Read More
2008-11-25 19:48
From the Wall Street Journal: While the U.S. may need [President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for Budget Director, Peter Orszag] more in his new role, the econoblogosphere is losing an im… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Teaser: What state of being would a person have to be in to run for the legislature in a state that can’t stay out of the news when it comes to the economy, or abortion, or voting righ… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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2006-06-07 11:16
I didn’t say it – Doonesbury did – and next year in Ohio, residents of my state House district have a chance to elect someone who doesn’t need a comic strip to get it… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What’s so funny about this (and today’s strip) is that we have many excellent training programs that have been working with women on how to run for office, period. I’ve per… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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. Th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A quick search on “gender impact investing Cleveland” and “gender impact investing Cuyahoga” didn’t bring up any results in the first couple of pages that had t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It’s just a print paper but I still get it. I still read it. So do a few hundred thousand folks, especially with the Cavs moving forward in the NBA conference post-season. So even thou… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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” r… Read More
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