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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Pretty big anti-Trump protest building up on a windy Saturday afternoon at the Ohio Statehouse - largest crowd I’ve seen here since the protest following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning the right to abortion in 2022

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

SCOOP: Draft legislation would add to Ohio's budget a $600m 30-yr bond package for a $3.4b domed stadium and development in Brook Park for the Cleveland Browns, and would eliminate a facilities fund paid for by doubling the tax on sports gambling operators www.statenews.org/government-p...

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Draft legislation would put $600M bond package for Cleveland Browns stadium into state budget

The amendment would authorize the state to sell $600 million in 30-year bonds as its part of financing a domed stadium and surrounding development for the Browns in Brook Park, 12 miles outside of Cle...

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Good morning! Want to know what we're following here at Ohio Public Media’s Statehouse News Bureau? Register for Ohio Statehouse Alerts by texting STATENEWS to (380) 233-5686 or head here: joinsubtext.com/statehousenewsbureau

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🧵 In a highly unusual move, the FCC has asked CBS News to hand over the unedited transcript and tapes from its interview with VP Kamala Harris last fall. CBS says "we are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m at the Charity Newsies auction in my hometown of Lancaster - all proceeds stay in Fairfield County for families and kids. 133 miles from Cleveland and I get outbid for signed Darius Garland stuff because everyone loves the @clevelandcavaliers.bsky.social #LetEmKnow

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ohio Democratic US Sen. Sherrod Brown has run for that office four times. Here are maps that show how the vote in those four elections turned out (maps courtesy of elections stats guru Mike Dawson)

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Official results from the 2024 election show 71.7% voter turnout, down from 74% in 2020. Average turnout in 81 Trump-won counties was 74.74% and 67.67 in 7 counties Harris won. Trump won northeast Ohio, once a Democratic stronghold. (Map from elections stats guru Mike Dawson)

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is a tradition for these neighbors - inviting people to use the pens to write what they’re thankful for on feather-shaped papers and tie them to the turkey #Thanksgiving

Sign next to turkey says: “Thankful the turkey needs feathers! Add a feather to tell us what you are thankful for!”

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ohio’s attorney general - who said last year that voter approval of a reproductive rights amendment would mean the state’s six-week ban on abortion without exceptions would cease to exist - appeals ruling that the law is now unconstitutional www.statenews.org/government-p...

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AG Yost appeals ruling that Ohio's six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional

Ohio's Republican attorney general has appealed a judge’s decision striking down that ban after last year’s approval of a constitutional amendment protecting access to abortion.

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Karen Kasler @karenkasler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What happened to Ohio Democrats in 2024, and what’s next? A quartet of key Ds share their thoughts on this week’s show: www.ideastream.org/shows/state-...

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The State Of Ohio Show November 29, 2024

Ohio Democrats On The Future Of The Party

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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 24/11/2024

Snowy Scenes in Cleveland, Ohio

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