The primary goal of much of the money that flows through Ohio politics is this: Influence. Corporations and industry groups, labor unions, single-issue organizations – together, they spend billions of dollars each year to gain access to decision-makers in government,…
Ohio budget proposal includes new taxes on Social Security benefits
By Rich Exner, Northeast Ohio Media Group Governor’s Ohio budget proposal includes an additional $166.5 million a year from seniors in new taxes on Social Security benefits. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget calls for slashing state income tax rates for…
Who’s Not Truthful About Common Core?
Ohio Governor John Kasich … took off the gloves this past week and implied that opponents of Common Core are liars. Written by Steve Byas – THE NEW AMERICAN A line of division among the potential Republican candidates for president…
GOP Establishment: Faking Right, Funding Left
THE NEW AMERICAN – Written by William F. Jasper Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a long record as a Big Government, “progressive” Republican, but in Tennessee it still pays for campaigning politicians to pretend to be politically conservative. On The New…
When the lawless make the laws
The soul of America has been penetrated with toxic greed. Political rigor mortis is everywhere. The state is collapsing of its own corruption. Bob Livingston for Personal Liberty Natural man fears chains more than he fears propaganda. But propaganda is…
Double-Dipping … but not ice cream
An easy solution to Ohio’s double-dipping problem By Maggie Thurber | for Ohio Watchdog Double-dipping: When a public employee retires, begins collecting a pension and then returns to the same position — and often the same pay — from which…