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Stench Returns To Accused Serial Killer's Neighborhood As Police Search For More Bodies Next Door

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home


CLEVELAND — A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door f...

Anthony Sowell's Neighbor Says Police Knew About Cleveland Rapist's House

New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home


A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...

Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

Casting a Moral Vote Against Big Ag

David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green


David Sirota

Our macho culture portrays vegetarianism as unacceptably "weak" or "bleeding heart." But it is finding a powerful constituency at the ballot box.

VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Bob Cesca

Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.

On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green


Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


Bob Cesca

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment


Lester Sloan

Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.

Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green


Wayne Pacelle

The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.

Ending Hate Crime

Lee Fisher | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


Lee Fisher

I am heartened that Congress has finally passed a bill that would strengthen the ability of governments at all levels to investigate and prosecute hate crime.

Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York


Michael Henry Adams

How did I, an unknown from the provinces, black and gay, first find myself at lofty River House facing the East River?

Readers' Photos of Fall Leaves

Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


Following our slide show of the best places to go for autumn leaves, readers sent in their favorite photos of fall foliage. From Michigan to New Hamp...

Let's Finish the Fight

Lee Fisher | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics


Lee Fisher

We can't just sit back and expect a perfect health reform bill to emerge -- we have to be ready to work for it. It's now up to us to make sure the health insurance industry doesn't convince legislators to oppose reform

Ohio Bar Shootout (VIDEO): Fight Escalates Into Showdown With Five Gunmen

AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home


(AP) TOLEDO, Ohio -- A wild shootout involving at least five gunmen sent patrons fleeing from a northwestern Ohio bar near the University of Toledo c...

Gun Show Loopholes Tracked By New York City; Dealers Allowed Purchase To Undercover Gun Buyers Who Admitted Spotty Records

The Associated Press | Sara Kugler | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York


NEW YORK (AP)-- New York City officials secretly videotaped dozens of firearm purchases they say were illegal at gun shows in states that have not clo...

Ralph Needs, Ohio Man, Is Beaten During Home Invasion And Then Shot 4 Days Later

AP | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home


GROVEPORT, Ohio — An 80-year-old Ohio man is recovering from a week in which he was beaten during a home invasion and then shot while trying to ...

The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

Broncos 2 and 0, With a Long Way to Go

Carlos Cagin | Posted 09.23.2009 | Denver


Carlos Cagin

This year the Denver D is covering for a very below-average Denver O, quite the reverse from last year. And this Denver O is very bad. When did the NFL become Pee Wee Football?

Discussing Gun Violence Prevention in Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee

Paul Helmke | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Paul Helmke

My experiences speaking around the country about gun violence have been the exact opposite of the contentious "town hall" protests we've seen on television over the summer.

Senator Brown, Leading Energy Think Tanks Push for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green


Jesse Jenkins

Modeled after the NIH, a New National Institutes of Energy (NIE) would be designed to most effectively channel R&D funding toward the development of new, low-cost commercial clean energy technologies.

Romell Broom Execution: Reprieve Granted Over Vein Troubles

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 09.17.2009 | Home


COLUMBUS, Ohio — The lawyer for an inmate whose execution was halted after an unprecedented two hours said trying to put him to death again in a...

EPA Halts Mountaintop Removal Projects

Yahoo! News | Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Oh...

Ohio Judge Orders Shoplifters To Wear "I'm A Thief" T-Shirts

AP | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home


WAUSEON, Ohio — A northwest Ohio judge has added neon green T-shirts to his sentencing repertoire. Western District Court Judge Jeff Robinson in...

Rep. Jean Schmidt to Birther: "I Agree With You" (VIDEO)

Think Progress | Victor Zapanta | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) spoke at the Voice of America tea party this Labor Day weekend outside of Cincinnati, OH. Following a tense Q&A session -- du...

FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Brad Friedman

The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.