Our Ohio Television Series airs on Ohio public television stations. The show highlights the best of Ohio food, farming, communities and history.
This is the series I was talking about with the bees! I LOVE IT. Most of the focus is on agriculture because it’s sponsored by the Farm Bureau, but most of that focus is on green and sustainable operations! Man, I love my state, even though it keeps electing jerks.
(it’s in the right column about halfway down the page)
Image description: Today is Wright Brothers Day, commemorating the first successful airplane flight in 1903. This photo shows that feat. Learn about the first flight.
Photo by John T. Daniels, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Lincoln was here #dayton #ohio
WOAH. House Speaker John Boehner made it clear at his weekly press conference today that he disagrees with President Obama on the issue of gay marriage, and he would not answer the question: Do you feel that gay marriage is a civil rights issue? When asked, Boehner responded: ”I believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and the president and the democrats can talk about all this all they want.” He added, “The fact is the American people are focused on our economy, and they’re asking the question: Where are the jobs?”
(Via AP YouTube)
It’s like he’s pointing into our souls.
That, Mr Speaker, is an excellent question. Where are the jobs? More specifically, where are all the jobs you’ve been promising to create since 2010?
Oh, what’s that? Nowhere, because you haven’t passed any jobs bills yet? And you’ve been cutting funding and holding budgets hostage to your narrow-minded pledges for two years? Because you’re more focused on winning reelections against both the Democrats and Tea Party candidates that are gunning for your moderate right-wing incumbents than on bolstering the economy either nationwide or in your state, which is also my state, which has been drowning in debt and bleeding population and industry jobs for decades?
Yeah, okay. The rest of us are just going to get on with making sure you aren’t eroding any more of our rights while you concentrate on all those phantom jobs. Okay? Great.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, voters knocked down the state’s extreme anti-union law, which curtailed collective bargaining rights. All in all, a pretty big night for progressives.
Today is D-Day for Gov. John Kasich’s anti-union law. Ohioans went to the polls on Tuesday in one of nation’s the most anticipated off-year elections to decide Issue 2, a referendum on whether to repeal Kasich’s law that curtails collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. It’s shaping up to be a big win for labor, reports MoJo’s Andy Kroll—but don’t call the state for Obama in 2012 yet.
Don’t forget to vote for the secret Fuck Yeah Ohio agenda, today.
We won’t talk about politics (you’re welcome), but you should still get out and vote, if you can.
(Source: shitonthesewallsray)
Creepy clouds today in Dayton, OH - Imgur
#Dayton it appears the gods are angry with you
The gods are always angry with us. Just because the Wright Brothers stole the power of flight! >:(
Have you seen our Dispatch history page, put together by Dispatch librarian Linda Deitch?
A highlight from her timeline:
On July 1, 1980 — exactly 109 years after its first issue was published — The Columbus Dispatch published the first “online” newspaper when it began beaming news stories through the CompuServe dial-up service.
The Dispatch was the first daily newspaper in the country to test the new technology. Users paid $5 per hour (!!!) for the service, billed in one-minute increments.
Ohio has so many “firsts” it’s almost rude to talk about it in front of other states.
^^^
Benjamin Piatt Runkle, age 21, c. 1857. Union general and as the founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, the original frat boy.
Submitted by dynamoe
Roebling Suspension Bridge. It was once the longest bridge in the world and was used as a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge.
That’s right, Brooklyn bit Cincy’s style.
Center of the World is an unincorporated community in far eastern Braceville Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. It consists of several houses and a few retail establishments centered at the crossroads where State Routes 82 and 5 diverge.
Some things you don’t even need words for.
