Ohio News - 4/28/2016

[TexasTowelie]

Ohio AG: Slayings of 8 'pre-planned execution'

Tamir Rice settlement remarks by police union president may just be 'playing to constituency,' NAACP attorney says

Online petition to boycott Target over bathroom policy tops 900,000 signatures

2016 Ohio Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday proposed for Aug. 5-7; just needs Gov. Kasich's signature

Teacher: GOP senators teaching kids to mistrust

Kasich lost in his hometown of McKees Rocks

Dayton-area abortion clinic facing closure

Federal agency says it must approve profit guarantees for Ohio utilities

Medical pot backers want ballot issue — even if bill passes

[Maeve]

1. Sometimes being an Ohioan is really embarrassing

Altho I now have more reason to shop at Target...

[TexasTowelie]

2. You think you have it rough?

Try being a single 50-year-old white guy in a small Texas town like me. Everyone automatically assumes that I'm a Republican and that using the "n-word" is just dandy as long as long as there are no blacks around. I was very uncomfortable to hear that word while talking to a retired professor in my apartment complex who I thought was somewhat liberal.

Don't even get me started about the political leaders from my state.

[Maeve]

3. I feel for you--lived in OKC for several years in the '80's

Back when you had to have a hotel key to buy a drink, because Prohibition just hadn't been given enough time to work! Of course, you could buy beer at the gas station.
Got asked one time "Are you white or a Mexican?" by an eight-year old...told her "I'm Irish" and confused her.

[No Vested Interest]

4. I appreciate your pulling these state-related stories together for posting, TexasTowelie.

They sure fill a gap - and a need- we've long had.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Thank you and I'm glad to do so.

Politics starts at home and I think that by posting the politics and local interest stories it shows that we share more in common than what we disagree about.