Saturday marks the one year anniversary of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The people of East Palestine have been snubbed by President Biden since the derailment happened. It’s an election year so Joe Biden suddenly has some time to make the trip to East Palestine. Since the derailment, Biden promised to visit […]
Ohio has been dealing with a chronic problem in its public schools known as chronic absenteeism or truancy. That’s defined as a situation where students are missing more than ten percent of school days over a prolonged period. They were already dealing with this issue prior to the pandemic, but since then it’s gotten considerably […]
Earlier this week we looked at the state of the child trans protection measures shaping up in Ohio, as well as their legislative efforts to protect women’s sports. An ambitious legislative package designed to achieve those goals had been vetoed by Governor Mike DeWine. The House easily overrode the veto with the question reaching the […]
The Ohio Senate on Wednesday took a buzzsaw to the buzzword of “gender-affirming care.” The Senate voted 23-9 to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill to ban medical care for minors who believe they want to change their gender in a bill that also says men who claim they are women cannot […]
The Ohio Senate voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, which will protect minors from experimental transgender treatments euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” and safeguard fairness in women’s sports. The override passed the Senate 24-8 Wednesday, after passing the House of Representatives, 65-28, on Jan. 10. The clerk initially read […]
In Ohio, the battle over restrictions on transgender medical procedures is plodding forward. Part of the activity revolves around Republican Governor Mike DeWine. The state legislature already passed legislation that would ban all trans medical procedures involving children, but DeWine vetoed it. (He later turned around and signed executive orders that would ban some, though […]
National grocery chain Kroger has installed kiosks in a handful of its 2,800 stories to allow customers to place bets on sporting events. Numerous outlets had reported that the company had been approved in 2022 to get the sports betting kiosks installed and operational in its Ohio stores, though they generally noted, as did Cincinnati’s […]
A former world champion pole vaulter died Thursday at age 29. Shawn Barber, a three-time NCAA champion with the University of Akron in Ohio, died “from medical complications,” the school’s Department of Athletics said in a news release Thursday. The athlete’s specific cause of death was not released, but the university said he “had fallen ill […]
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine sent shock waves through the GOP last week when he vetoed a bill that would have protected children from surgeries and other “gender-affirming care” in his state. Heavy criticism from within his own party followed, coming from all across the country. It’s unclear if he caved under that pressure, but last […]
Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, signed an “emergency” executive order Friday banning transgender surgeries for minors, one week after he vetoed a bill that would have had a similar effect. The bill would also have banned cross-sex hormones and so-called puberty blockers for children, measures DeWine’s executive order apparently omits. The bill would also have […]
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