While I was on the road today I heard a curious story on NPR: the 109 non-management employees of the Ohio Education Association, which is Ohio’s largest teachers union, may go on strike if they don’t get a new contract to replace the contract that is expiring. The OEA’s non-management employees are members of the [...]
Archive for August 31st, 2010
Union Versus Union
Posted in Ohio, Work, tagged Labor Unions, Ohio, Ohio Education Association, Teachers' Unions, Work on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Traficant’s Return
Posted in Ohio, Politics, tagged Congress, James Traficant, Ohio, Politics on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Traficant apparently will be back on the ballot in November, running for the seat in Ohio’s 17th Congressional District as an independent. Elections officials had previously ruled that Traficant lacked enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, but reversed that decision on reconsideration. Traficant formerly was a Democrat who served 17 years in Congress. [...]
Mean Mean Pride
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged concert, limelight, nationwide arena, rush, tom sawyer on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I saw RUSH in concert at Nationwide Arena on Sunday night and it was the best concert I have ever seen in person. I happened to see them years ago when I was younger, but I felt like this time around they were wayyyyyyy better. I loved the fact that they pretty much played all of their hit songs during the three hours [...]
