Michael Corey

Economists: Medicaid cuts will hurt all Ohioans.

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

NEW: Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.

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AEP reports record profits as customers' bills spike - here's what's happening

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Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

City won't give landlords a license to rent unless they allow inspection of apartments to make sure they're up to code.

Landlord: That's an unconstitutional condition!

6th Cir, per J. Nalbandian: No, it's a reasonable condition. No 4A violation.

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Opinion | The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act

The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series Returning for the 13th year, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra's summer music series will offer free concerts in Westerville and Downtown.

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ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series

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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

Opinion | Why Trump’s Firing of the B.L.S. Commissioner Is So Damaging

Trump’s Damaging Decision to Fire the Labor Statistics Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president accused of ‘firing the messenger’ as he makes claims without evidence about Erika McEntarfer

“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, including those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild. “When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot." --from Orwell's Roses

The filing, which is not public, was submitted to the inspector general’s office in electronic form on May 2, and a longer, printed version that included documentary evidence was delivered on May 5, according to people familiar with the filing. The inspector general appears to have done nothing with the information for more than two months, and many in that office did not realize they even had the material until a day or two before the full Senate voted on Mr. Bove’s nomination. He was confirmed Tuesday by a razor-thin margin, 50 to 49. Last Friday, when the whistle-blower group went public about the filing’s existence, the inspector general’s office told lawmakers that it had no such complaint, according to people familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The office only found the documents after lawyers for the whistle-blower presented electronic and FedEx delivery receipts for them. The implications of that inaction are potentially significant, given that Republicans have cast skepticism on another Justice Department whistle-blower, Erez Reuveni, describing his account as part of a politically timed effort by Democrats to scuttle a Trump nomination. That someone appears to have come forward about Mr. Bove’s conduct well before his nomination was known would undercut those claims. The complaint, according to people familiar with it, outlines a set of allegations that largely tracks with Mr. Reuveni’s account.

Oh boy.

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'Very alarming.' Ohio housing advocates decry Trump's executive order on homelessness • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio housing advocates spoke out against President Trump’s recent executive order that would force those experiencing homelessness off the streets by committing them to mental health institutions or…

Ohio housing advocates spoke out against President Trump’s recent executive order that would force those experiencing homelessness off the streets by committing them to mental health institutions or drug treatment centers without their consent. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/31/v...

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

This is How Democratic Senators Caved to Islamophobia and Gave Supervillain Emil Bove a Lifetime Appointment

Bove, who advised Trump to ignore federal judges, is now a lifetime judge on the Court of Appeals. Dem senators helped put him there.

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CNBC: The EPA is moving to rescind this endangerment finding on carbon dioxide and greenhouses gases. Is that a danger to public health?

MAKARY: To be honest, I don't know enough about that issue

CNBC: You're in charge of our public health! Can you look into it for us?

I'm glad Senator Scott acknowledges that we're almost at full employment. Because you know what would be destabilizing to an economy at full employment? Mass deportation of around 4% of the population.

You can't fill those jobs if you're already at full employment!

Between this and the news that Vought has stopped the NIH from issuing any more grants this year — (illegally) refusing to spend money that Congress has allocated — we're getting a glimpse of what could be a really ugly future for higher ed and science / technology in the US. And it's coming fast.

Bove is genuinely still on the hook for possible criminal contempt charges. Which, if the DC Circuit ever gets off its ass and does something about its "administrative" stay (since APRIL), may require him to testify under oath, despite being a judge. Unprecedented situation.

YEA 50 NAY 49 Nomination of Emil J. Bove Ill, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit

BREAKING: The Senate Republicans just confirmed Emil Bove to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a man whose lawless actions should lead to his being disbarred — not confirmed to an appeals court.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...

The U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Boom Is Sputtering More than $30 billion of clean energy investments are now on ice since Trump took office, according to new data from Wellesley College’s Big Green Machine.

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You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

Opinion | José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine

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Crew acquire striker Wessam Abou Ali as DP The Columbus Crew acquired striker Wessam Abou Ali for an undisclosed transfer fee on Saturday.

Crew acquire striker Wessam Abou Ali as DP reut.rs/45lyzbL

Yes we are.

Garden: Deadheading is important during the summer As the summer months are in full swing, you can help your plants bloom more in the dog days by deadheading.

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Garden: Deadheading is important during the summer

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