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Before I started video recording board meetings- other than the business meeting, being able to review what happened at a board meeting was a hit/miss affair. The board would record, not livestream, and post to a wonky video hosting service days later that cost them big bucks. Now, they video some of the review meetings, […]

The idea of free elections, the bedrock of the American democracy, is that the people get to choose their representatives to elected office. We all know that thanks to Citizens United, we’ve turned most elections to federal and state office into auctions, but, local elections were still at least relatively untainted. That is, unless we’re […]

Listening to NPR this morning, I got to hear a discussion of the US Debt and how it related to the military- which causes a lot of the debt. They had a local expert, who spewed the ne0-con line: We do face a rising China, a resurgent Russia and a nuclear North Korea. But there’s […]

Dayton Board of Education held a 2 hour meeting last night and not a single child was served. It was falsely billed as a “Strategic Planning Meeting” yet, there was no strategy, nor planning. However, there were bad sandwiches, fruit, cheese, crackers and punch, and a consultant who should refund her fees. The agenda wasn’t […]

There are plenty of instances with drunk people shooting someone. Yet, most people who smoke pot say it mellows them out. Of course, we can’t talk about illegal pot use- we’re talking about a prescribed medication for a medical condition. People who register with the state of Ohio to legally use medical marijuana will be […]