Shontel Brown Called the Health Care Bill a Year Ago. Ohio Families Are Paying It Now.
Last October, in the middle of the shutdown, the congresswoman sat at our table and laid out what the cuts would cost. Here is what she said, and what came true.
Last October, in the middle of the shutdown, the congresswoman sat at our table and laid out what the cuts would cost. Here is what she said, and what came true.

The cuts came from Washington. The bill landed at Cleveland’s bargaining tables.

She lived through the Rainbow Terrace explosion. Fifteen months later, she stood at a council microphone and forced City Hall to answer. The RealPower Radio Show puts the responsibility where it belongs: on the mayor’s desk.

Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV The amendment changes nothing on Election Day. That is the part worth reading twice. Ohio has required a

After 246 years in chattel slavery and 100 more with limited rights, the rights won in 1964 and 1965 are proving to be words written in disappearing ink. A retired judge on why the only freedom we will ever hold is the kind we can make somebody need.

Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. blocked Ohio’s demand for citizenship papers at the BMV. LaRose is appealing. The registration deadline is October 5. This is not a victory, it is a window.

We abandoned our Democracy to a wanna-be dictator without a shot being fired. No, it is not about the party. It is the absence of spine.

The jobs numbers are the weather. The CDFI Fund and the MBDA are the climate. Antjuan Seawright named the machinery; here is what it costs Cleveland.

Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV Sixty-one years. That’s how long Black folks had a legal shield protecting our right to vote and our

The national unemployment rate sits near 4 percent. Black unemployment hit 6.6 percent in June. Antjuan Seawright’s argument, and the numbers underneath it: for Black America the recession is not coming. It arrived a year ago, and nobody called it.
Last October, in the middle of the shutdown, the congresswoman sat at our table and laid out what the cuts would cost. Here is what she said, and what came true.

The cuts came from Washington. The bill landed at Cleveland’s bargaining tables.

She lived through the Rainbow Terrace explosion. Fifteen months later, she stood at a council microphone and forced City Hall to answer. The RealPower Radio Show puts the responsibility where it belongs: on the mayor’s desk.

Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV The amendment changes nothing on Election Day. That is the part worth reading twice. Ohio has required a

After 246 years in chattel slavery and 100 more with limited rights, the rights won in 1964 and 1965 are proving to be words written in disappearing ink. A retired judge on why the only freedom we will ever hold is the kind we can make somebody need.

Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. blocked Ohio’s demand for citizenship papers at the BMV. LaRose is appealing. The registration deadline is October 5. This is not a victory, it is a window.

We abandoned our Democracy to a wanna-be dictator without a shot being fired. No, it is not about the party. It is the absence of spine.

The jobs numbers are the weather. The CDFI Fund and the MBDA are the climate. Antjuan Seawright named the machinery; here is what it costs Cleveland.

Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV Sixty-one years. That’s how long Black folks had a legal shield protecting our right to vote and our

The national unemployment rate sits near 4 percent. Black unemployment hit 6.6 percent in June. Antjuan Seawright’s argument, and the numbers underneath it: for Black America the recession is not coming. It arrived a year ago, and nobody called it.
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