Editorial by Connie Pillich who represents the 28th District in the Ohio House of Representatives and is a candidate for Ohio State Treasurer.
Making ends meet on active duty is not easy. I should know: I had just turned 23 when I was first assigned to Grand Forks Air Force Base.
I expected to confront the unexpected there – things like 24-hour drills, briefing my wing commander, the Klaxon going off.
Tonight, Governor Kasich will speak at Sinclair Community College’s graduation ceremony. What he’ll fail to mention is that, thanks in part to $6 million in state funding cuts, Sinclair Community College had to increase its tuition in 2012 – another consequence of education cuts that is causing Ohio’s young adults to become increasingly saddled with student loan debt.
The largest progressive group of veterans in America, with over 400,000 supporters, VoteVets.org, is today raising questions about the recent $10,000 donation to Governor John Kasich’s campaign, from former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
FitzGerald: “The new restrictions that Governor Kasich has signed into law amount to legalized discrimination, plain and simple.”
Ohio’s cuts to early voting discriminate against blacks and Hispanics in violation of the Voting Rights Act, a new lawsuit alleges.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald issued the following statement on the recently released Casey Foundation report, showing Ohio has one of the nation’s worst achievement gaps between black and white students.
