Always treasure simple pleasures. That’s the handwritten inscription on one of the first gifts I received from my late wife, Amy. The adage was pasted—along with the photo of an orangutan holding a flower—on a wooden plaque. The gift was
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Speak up or forfeit your representation
Let’s nip this in the bud. It’s easy to exercise your right to representation in our representative democracy. Don’t expect government to change if you don’t. All you need to do is make a quick call, send an email or
Continue reading »Ohio Senate gives cover to hospital murder
A few days before she passed away at Wooster (Ohio) Community Hospital, Angie Plant made a desperate call to her sister, Crystal Boles. Angie mumbled over the phone that she wanted budesonide—an inhaled corticosteroid that Texas physician Dr. Richard Bartlett
Continue reading »Your mouth to God’s ear: what I observed
“From your mouth to God’s ear.” My democrat counterpart poll observer—a lawyer—was responding to my prediction that Ohio’s so-called “anti-gerrymandering” Issue 1 would pass overwhelmingly. He wanted that to happen. I didn’t, but I thought it would. Fortunately for me,
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