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Banning a Book Near You

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Connie Schultz - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - Hopkins told me she has received thousands of letters from teenagers who say her books helped them turn their lives around. She also said she is seeing an uptick in attempts by individual parents to ban books by her and other authors, and she thinks she knows why.

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FirstEnergy Corp. says it may mix wood chips with coal to reduce emissions

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By John Funk - Mar. 23 (News Report) - Faced with a federal court order to clean up or shut down one of its older coal-fired power plants, FirstEnergy Corp. says it is considering mixing wood chips or grass pellets with coal to reduce emissions.

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Cleveland-area TV meteorologists disagree with prevailing attitude about climate change

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Michael Scott - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - Seitter said many meteorologists also don't trust models - "because we've seen how wrong they can be in predicting weather" - and that most don't interact with other scientists beyond other meteorologists. "We sort of live in our own world and haven't been exposed to the same volumes of research that the climatologists have," he said. "The day-to-day meteorologists are seeing anecdotal evidence, but not the research that goes back thousands of years," he said. "The two disciplines are very related, but the time span being looked at is very different.

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16,000 Republicans in Cuyahoga crossed over and voted Democratic in primary

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Amanda Garrett - Mar. 10 (News Report) - It started a few weeks ago when conservative radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh suggested that his Republican following cross over during the primary to vote for Clinton. Clinton, Limbaugh argued, would be easier for McCain to beat in November than Obama. Soon, local morning radio show host Bob Frantz echoed Limbaugh on WTAM AM/1100, and the buzz began to grow.

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Kucinich drops presidential bid

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:30:02 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Mark Naymik - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - Two weeks after insisting he could run for Congress and president at the same time, his decision Thursday to drop his second bid for the White House suggests he is concerned about winning a seventh term in Congress.

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In so many cases, democracy rises from catastrophe, Naomi Klein argues

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By John Freeman - Dec. 16 (Review) - According to economists in the University of Chicago school of thought, free-market ideas spread across the planet in a series of natural if sometimes painful historic developments. And the unprecedented (and highly lucrative) access Western capital enjoyed to these emerging markets is essential to kick-starting democratic reform. In this towering polemic, Naomi Klein demolishes this narrative, arguing that the evidence tells a different story. Skipping across several decades and numerous U.S. administrations of both parties, Klein shows how the free-market ideas associated with Milton Friedman have spread often through catastrophe (as in Thailand, post-tsunami, and in New Orleans, post-Katrina) and at the point of a gun (as in Chile in 1973 and Iraq today).

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2 election workers convicted in '04 tally

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:35:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Jim Nichols - Jan. 25 (News Report) - A jury found two Cuyahoga County elections workers guilty Wednesday of charges that they skirted Board of Elections procedures to thwart a countywide ballot recount after the divisive 2004 presidential election.

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10% of May ballots flawed

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:24:44 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Joan Mazzolini - Aug. 16 (News Report) - Nearly 10 percent of Cuyahoga County's official ballots in the May 2 primary were "destroyed, blank, illegible, missing, taped together or otherwise compromised," according to experts who studied the county's new electronic voting system. That could have made a recount impossible in a close race, says the report, which was released Tuesday.

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Blackwell gets Brunt of Registrant's anger

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:51:04 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Ted Wendling - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Columbus- Democrats and representatives of voter-registration groups accused Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on Monday of trying to rig this November's election by publishing draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters. Testifying at a hearing chaired by Judy Grady, Blackwell's director of elections, lawyers for ACORN, Common Cause, the Ohio Democratic Party and other groups said training documents drafted by Blackwell's office are so vague that they subject registrars to felony penalties for even inadvertent violations.

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