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Redistricting Reform Can Restore Black Voting Power in Ohio
It is a well-known fact that Ohio is a heavily gerrymandered state, and recent research by the Brennan Center for Justice reveals that approximately 77% of Ohioans, or more than 9 million people, live in Ohio House districts that will have no meaningful competition in legislative races this November.
Ohioans are facing this watered-down ...Read more
More Grief and Gun Violence Heartbreak
When the story broke about the Apalachee High School shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, this tragedy hit home for me since Barrow County is only half an hour away from Clarke County, where I attended high school. Teachers and students from my high school alma mater, Clarke Central, were recently featured on "Good Morning America" to discuss ...Read more
Bowing to Public Opinion, Trump and Harris Agree That Marijuana Should Be Legal: It Remains Unclear Whether Either Would Do Anything About That as President
After former President Donald Trump endorsed a Florida ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana in that state, Vice President Kamala Harris accused her Republican opponent of flip-flopping on the issue. Yet Harris herself did not publicly support marijuana legalization until 2018, when two-thirds of Americans already ...Read more
On immigration, taking a lesson from 1924
A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, also known as the Immigration Act of 1924, which precipitated a two-generation-long pause in mass migration.
Upon Coolidge’s signature, multiple benefits to citizen workers ensued immediately. Immigration dropped from 707,000 in 1924 to 294,000 in 1925. Within...Read more
Will 25-year milestone bring a second wind?
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree
Well, that quarter-century went by faster than the weaver’s shuttle!
(Almost as fast as younger readers Googling, “What the %$#@& is a weaver’s shuttle?”)
As of late October, I have been pounding out a Tyrades! column every week for 25 years without a single break, and with no plans to slow down.
Why ...Read more
Footing our growing debt service bill
Well, that didn’t take as long as expected.
In case you missed it, our federal government is now estimated to pay more than $1 trillion a year to service just the interest on our national debt — about $200 billion more than we spend on our military or Medicare.
Why are we suddenly paying so much?
Because the cost to service our debt...Read more