Tag Archive | "ohio"

What starts out as a kiss and follows like a curse

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The DJ on WWOZ is playing a tribute to Jim Carroll tonight on the Kitchen Sink program, and he played this (below), which I’d never heard performed. It’s powerful as hell on the page but when he reads, it’s a whole new monkey. The eighth one is currently my favorite.

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What starts out as a kiss and follows like a curse

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The DJ on WWOZ is playing a tribute to Jim Carroll tonight on the Kitchen Sink program, and he played this (below), which I’d never heard performed. It’s powerful as hell on the page but when he reads, it’s a whole new monkey. The eighth one is currently my favorite.

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Boycott Totes/Isotoner

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I’m throwing my hat in the ring on this one. In case you haven’t seen the million angry articles and blog posts about the recent Ohio Supreme Court finding, you can read about it officially here or unofficially here and here . Here is the letter I sent to Totes/Isotoner – feel free to take part or all for your own letter: To: vickie.fightmaster@totes.com, customerservice@totes.com; chuck.aardema@totes.com; lauren.rosewski@totes.com Subject: Alienating your consumer base Ms.

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A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Sept. 3, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

WELLINGTON, Ohio — The Penfield Partners 4-H club met Aug. 19. A motion was passed to pay for fire retardant to be used to spray the home economics booth at the fair.

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Rights of Lactating Women

Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Ohio State Supreme Court ruled this past Thursday that the state law banning discrimination against pregnant women cannot be used to protect a woman who was taking unauthorized breaks to pump her breast milk. The ruling did not deal with the issue of whether lactating women should be protected under the same law as pregnant women. If the mother, LaNisa Allen, had sought accommodation for her situation and the company (Totes/Isotoner) had refused to give her any, she would have had grounds

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A Man’s Right To Choose?

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I first read about this last week, but waited to gather my thoughts on it before speaking. A bill about abortion was recently re-introduced in the Ohio state House of Representatives.  The bill was originally proposed in 2007 by the same person, Representative John Adams (back from the dead and demoted, apparently), and either never made it to a floor vote or was defeated when it did – my research is unclear on its original fate.  But it’s back now, and more patriarchal than ever! The bill

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