As part of a recent discussion on the Green Party forum about the Alaska Project, Justin Jeffre responded with a particularly well-framed argument in favor of supportive housing.
I thought this might be helpful if anyone is calling or writing city council (or anyone else for that matter) in support of the project. It seems particularly relevant in light of resident testimony yesterday claiming that the project would be a “haven” for drug dealers.
Two major issues were discussed in this morning’s Budget and Finance Committee meeting:
The committee also took up the motion to move the city manager communication director under the office of the mayor.
Matteo Brunetta is an Italian-born documentary film maker who lives in New York City.
His film The Highest Cost looks at the fight of two 9/11 first responders against cancer developed from months of working at Ground Zero.
The Highest Cost TRAILER from Matteo Brunetta on Vimeo.
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of speaking with him.
If you haven’t noticed yet, the conservative wedge issue for 2014 is going to be health care.
Democratic Senators like Mary Landrieu have noticed.
They simply don’t appear to have much of a strategy to date: 1) apologize for the horrible website, 2) focus on the economy, and 3) keep explaining to conservatives why a conservative solution is not such a bad thing.
If we can’t do better, well before November, expect to lose the Senate.
We’ve got a Bridge to Nowhere situation here in Southern Ohio. Only it’s being perpetrated on us by a “Democrat,” recently elected Mayor of Cincinnati John Cranley.
I noticed something about the campaign yard signs as I was walking our dog the other night in our quiet neighborhood of Cheviot, Ohio.
None of them were red. This may not seem odd until you realize that Cheviot is in the heart of a district which Republican Steve Chabot won by 70,000 votes in 2012.
There was no way all the candidates here could be Democrats. Could they? What was going on?
My curiosity led me to the following informal survey of campaign signs in Southern Ohio.
In the aftermath of the shutdown publicity stunt, I’d like to take a moment for a friendly public service announcement.
This morning, I’ve seen several examples online where we’re inadvertently reinforcing the conservative idea that Democrats “won’t negotiate”.
Two of the most prominent are a) The New York Times “The Republican Surrender”, and b) the Rachel Maddow chart shown.
I’m posting this PSA because I want to win people over, not “beat” them or force them to surrender. This feeds right in to the idiocy about Democrats not being willing to negotiate.
Remember, the negotiation is still going to happen. Just like it was in April.
If you want to perform a public service and help get rid of this lie, it’s easy.
Perhaps the most important speech of the year: Elizabeth Warren on why government matters.
Found on a whiteboard in one of our conference rooms where the computer projector was displaying a message to change the bulb:
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‘Boldly Bankrupt’ at the University of Cincinnati: How privatization corrupts public universities 
Justice is a bargain: 7 questions for Charmaine McGuffey, candidate for Hamilton County sheriff 
