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Opinion contributor to Cincinnati Enquirer. Opinions are my own. Retired AP scribe/editor: in Miami x 2, San Juan, ATL, CHI, BUF, CIN x 2 OhioU - The Post alum

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Dayton Ohio outside site of Klan group rally
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@Chasten @Mike_Pence What would you bet that he stayed out in the lobby when “Mother” was in labor because he couldn’t stand the sights and sounds of childbirth?
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Navy veteran attacked by federal agents in Portland: "What they were doing was unconstitutional" @AP
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Barbara wasn’t having it and came prepared, as always
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This is worth a watch and retweet tonight.
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@SpeakerMcCarthy The only part about House Republicans that will be remembered is their childish behavior, totally disrespectful of an American constitutional tradition. Have fun letting the Katzenjammer Kids run over you for 2 years.
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Federal appeals court says Planned Parenthood doesn't have "due process right to perform abortions" in ruling that overturns lower court and upholds Ohio law aimed against using public funds for abortion:
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Former LA @AP bureau chief John Brewer recalls a struggling actor moonlighting as night news assistant - filing, changing ribbons, loading paper - in the ‘70s. He informed Brewer in ‘75 he had been cast in “a sci-fi movie.” And so ended @HamillHimself ‘s AP career!
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Multiple boats in distress, sinking at Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis
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@therecount Now give me two of the “two for $6” meals
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Challenge for these new Trump books: tough to surprise. Trump thought he could just declare himself the winner? Trump thought SCOTUS would bend to his will? Of course he did.
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@GOP chair Ronna McDaniel’s appearance on @MeetThePress made a compelling case to support the call by @VivekGRamaswamy for her to step down. Didn’t seem to have any ideas on how to turn the tide on the abortion issue or anything much to say except tired Biden family talking pts
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R.I.P. Jeff Beck. Playing The Beatles “A Day in the Life” at Cincinnati’s Brady Center 10-20-22 ( joined in the show by Johnny Depp )
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@joncoopertweets Bobby Kennedy. Although more shock and despair than grief. It was so soon after MLK’s assassination and it just seemed “will this never stop?”
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So I’m not sure what this is triggered by, but it’s going around Instagram
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One week after winning the Democratic #OHSen primary, ⁦ @TimRyan ⁩ is in GOP nominee ⁦ @JDVance1 ⁩ ‘s home county of Hamilton. Ryan visited Cincinnati’s Children’s hospital, met with nurses, and pledged to work to get more nurses into the profession
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Handful of Participants in Klan group rally in Dayton ratio of protesters more than 100 to each of them
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In a prerecorded interview, why did @MeetThePress go ahead & air concocted claims such as Democrats “kill the baby after birth?” From Aaron: “When she wasn’t trying to get Trump in touch with his feelings, Welker was overwhelmed by his nonstop lying.”
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New in Public Notice: How not to interview Trump
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Injured #Reds Scooter Gennett at little league opening day in his hometown of Lebanon, Ohio, with me grandson this morning
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“A Tragic Parody.” Republican state Speaker Rusty Bowers on the Trump-Giuliani effort, which led to threats to him and his family. #January6thCommitteeHearings
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Yikes. Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers says Rudy Giuliani told him: “We’ve got lots of theories, but we just don’t have the evidence.”
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@RexChapman Sadly, @TuckerCarlson secretly wishes @SpeakerPelosi was his Mom.
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Hey, Neighbor! @JDVance1 said that as he was setting out the trash in his Cincinnati neighborhood this morning, a driver slowed and yelled “F*** You, Fascist!” #OHSEN
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@rexchapman is one of the best accounts @Twitter has going for it. A bizarre target for @elonmusk
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Boy, I’d love to know why @RexChapman is shadow banned. He brings nothing but informative joy to this place. (Try searching for his name. It won’t come up.)
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Election deniers running in Ohio as GOP nominees, per The Washington Post: JD Vance-US Senate, Dave Yost-Ohio AG; Chabot, Davidson, Wenstrup, Johnson, Jordan, Latta, Miller, Gilbert, Majewski-US House
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@Jim_Jordan How many @OhioState U wrestlers were sexually abused under your watch? Why did you fail to report a long-term pattern of sexual abuse by a university doctor later investigation showed was widely known to those involved in the wrestling program to have been going on for years?
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Republican presidential candidate ⁦ @VivekGRamaswamy ⁩ with the Patil family, which came from Dayton to his meet-and-greet Saturday in West Chester Township near Cincinnati. Mom Vijaya said their children “are excited to meet the first Indian-American president.”
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@AdamKinzinger @DonaldJTrumpJr made Halloween costume “joke” about Paul Pelosi, showing again his DNA is devoid of empathy or even of any humor that isn’t a lame attack on someone else
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@TuckerCarlson , useful idiot
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New today in Public Notice: Tucker Carlson is on Russia's side
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@RonFilipkowski In other news, a woman who’s not his “type” for sexual assault has filed an enhanced lawsuit against him
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@SpeakerMcCarthy Betting that @SarahHuckabee would like to take back that choice “between normal and crazy” line after seeing the #SOTU clips of House Republicans
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No Ohio US House seat has been flipped since a GOP-dominated redistricting took effective in 2002. Some first-time Democratic candidates hope to end that streak Nov. 3
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Does @DollyParton know @JoeyVotto uses “Jolene” as his walk-up? Because I would pay Field of Dreams Game money to see her sing that live at GABP.
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Very sad that an AP Calculus teacher who was Anderson educator of the year has resigned her post at Turpin High School because of the CRT-crazed @FHSchools board. Thanks for hurting schools, @HamCoGOP
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Some personal news, as they say: ⁦ @jwilliamscincy ⁩ takes on a new role as ⁦ @Enquirer ⁩ sports columnist, & I’ll be penning a weekly politics column. It turns out I’m not very good at being retired, and hoping to be better by having a regular gig. More later this week
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Other journalists watched and learned from the @AP here. Never let politicians make claims about military service without requesting the records.
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J.R. Majewski, the Ohio GOP candidate who on Monday told a crowd that his pronouns were "Patriot" and "Ass-kicker" has lost his bid for Congress to Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur. In September, @BrianSlodysko and I reported on Mr. Majewski's military record.
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@RonFilipkowski No rational people would consider being medically defined obese as a sign of strength and stamina
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@CatholicLeague What is the proper term for boys who have been sexually abused by priests?
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NEW: Parents in the Forest Hills School District today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the new @FHSchools policy which effectively bars teaching about anti-racism, race, gender, identity in the suburban eastern Cincinnati schools …
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R.I.P. Mimi, age 15. Thanks to the Beechmont Pet Hospital for helping her have an easy transition. A tech gave her chocolate, which I never gave a dog, but she gobbled it down as a final treat. I’m not crying, you’re crying! 😢
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@JoeyVotto ⁩ and ⁦ @ellylacocoa18 ⁩ were out early for #Reds BP
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@RonFilipkowski I’ll read him as much now as I did when he was banished
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Small-city Ohio mayor, standup comedian @drewhastings acquitted all counts in Hillsboro after case brought by Ohio auditor special pros: AP
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@joncoopertweets Do we have to pick one?
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@RonFilipkowski Better than those who did and now will spend the other 364 days of the year trying to undermine MLK’s work
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@elonmusk The story about the guy who fell off the cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico and survived is 10x more interesting
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@ScottWalker How about the age of a @RepMattGaetz date?
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Ohio Gov John Kasich, a Trump critic, has voted for 2008 nominee John McCain. Spokesman says Kasich voted straight-ticket GOP otherwise: AP
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@FarnoushAmiri That’s Northern Kentucky’s congressman who thinks holiday cards with his family showing off high-powered guns is respectful to the meaning of Christmas and to the many victims of mass shootings with those weapons. Bonus? @RepThomasMassie quotes Nazis.
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@FrankLaRose @DispatchAlerts Remember the Good Old Days when you had a moral compass and didn’t use the power of being Ohio’s elections chief to try to advance your political ambitions?
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Lead story on ⁦ @CNN ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ReliableSources ⁩ is the end of ⁦ @ReliableSources ⁩ ⁦ @brianstelter
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Bikers turn out Saturday to support pro-Trump vehicle caravan on I-275 east of Cincinnati
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Too bad pay day's not until tomorrow....
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'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli puts the only known copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album he bought for $2M up for sale on eBay.
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@KeithOlbermann @laurenboebert “They’re there to educate.” Until Republican governors and local wing-nut activists who see CRT and kitty litter boxes hiding throughout the schools make it impossible for educators to educate.
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@Jim_Jordan Jim won’t answer or claims not to remember his Jan. 6 role.Won’t face journalists’ questions live on what he knew about Dr. Strauss molesting Ohio State wrestlers in his charge. Won’t answer live questions about what he knows about witness-tampering
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Sinclair College in Dayton Ohio
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Opposing Issue 1 in Ohio: rank-and-file police, firefighters, nurses (aka salt of the earth). For: Extreme-right billionaire Richard Uhilein of Illinois and democracy-denier Kari Lake of Arizona.
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“I got it on video lol … F***ed those cops up.” A closer look at those Trump is trying to glorify and excuse…
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THREAD Donald Trump keeps calling Jan. 6 defendants "hostages." He did so again last night. But an @NBCNews review of J6 cases identified just 15 current pretrial detainees ordered held by a judge. Among them are defendants who (allegedly): - set off an explosive device -
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@atrupar Also represented well the great city of City
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@BeschlossDC Because @Jim_Jordan is tied up embarrassing Ohio while being a rube in NYC
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@JoshMandelOhio No, America was founded on principles of freedom, including freedom of religion.
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The effort to get @DollyParton to sing “Jolene” for @JoeyVotto appears to have stalled, despite help from @StellaParton Maybe my fellow former @AP colleague @MarkHamill could ask? Help me Luke, you’re my only hope. #Reds
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Thousands already for Trump rally that begins at 7 in Cincinnati
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Very confident in saying Cincinnati’s Riverfront area is only place in nation today that has a simulated 300-casualty terror attack followed by a wiener dog race
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@HamlinIsland Take care and come back strong! You’re part of this #Bengals season and let’s hope you’ll be rooting for them in the Super Bowl.
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@howardwilkinson ⁩ and I have been pals nearly 50 years. We’ve both been #Reds fans for more than a decade longer than that.
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@RonFilipkowski Folks, if they hand out Kool-Aid, don’t drink it!
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@realPParsons Hi, say hello to my friend @shannonrwatts . So you want to make sure 6-year-olds are able to exercise their Second Amendment rights to shoot their teachers? PS @elonmusk why is this guy in my TL?
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Outside back of Ned Peppers scene of mass shooting in Dayton Ohio
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WLW is “bringing us all together?” Only when the #Reds are on. Otherwise, you have a very narrow definition of “us.” Let’s start with diversity … any female, Black, Hispanic, young, openly gay…anything but old or middle-aged white guys hosting?
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What would Grant and Sherman say? Or Harriet Tubman? Or the three young men lynched in the Freedom Summer after training at ⁦ @miamiuniversity ⁩ ? Confederate flag flies over Ohio city | Opinion via ⁦ @Enquirer
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@BeschlossDC No Noose is Good News
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@atrupar #BarbaraWalters : “No they’re not.”
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@dbauder of @AP on @brianstelter 's new book focused on Fox News and the its impact on Donald Trump:
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@AftabPureval ⁩ on “Morning Joe” this morning
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“With Donald Trump, it was never over.” So ends “The Divider,” by ⁦ @peterbakernyt ⁩ and ⁦ @sbg1 ⁩ , & my odyssey through 12 Trump books (all written by objective, fact-checking journalists). Now for a change of pace from ⁦ @StephenKing ⁩ Will it be as scary?
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That would cost you $78 at the Newark Airport
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Had to stop at Skyline.
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Heard @Willie700WLW told listeners his latest @DukeEnergy bill was $750, which he blamed on Biden & Marxist energy policy. Having a large Indian Hill-area home in 90-degree weather would be a better explanation. He should know about hot air.
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@JudiciaryGOP I’m not a Democrat btw. But maybe this would be an appropriate time for the House Judiciary Committee to put aside a city’s crime & hold hearings into the questionable gifts and other financial benefits a Supreme Court justice has been receiving from a politically active donor?
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@TimRyan ⁩ ‘s wife Andrea greets crowd at a Saturday morning get-out-the-vote rally in Cincinnati’s Mount Lookout neighborhood. Son Brady, 8, also spoke. #OHSEN
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BC-Hamill-AP, 1st Ld-Writethru Eds: UPDATES with @HamillHimself stating he left @AP for Partridge Family, not Star Wars. TATOOINE (AP) —
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Former LA @AP bureau chief John Brewer recalls a struggling actor moonlighting as night news assistant - filing, changing ribbons, loading paper - in the ‘70s. He informed Brewer in ‘75 he had been cast in “a sci-fi movie.” And so ended @HamillHimself ‘s AP career!
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@RitchieTorres Volleyball star who single-handedly defeated Kerri Walsh and Misty May while playing in drag
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Gates have opened for 7 pm Trump rally at Warren County Fairgrounds in Ohio
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If it’s Sunday, it’s time to meet your new @Enquirer weekly columnist. With an O.J. Simpson cameo; ⁦ @SenSherrodBrown ⁩ ⁦ @senrobportman ⁩ ⁦ @GovMikeDeWine ⁩ ⁦ @nanwhaley ⁩ the Clintons, Ted Kennedy and more! via ⁦ @Enquirer
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I told ⁦ @HunterGreene17 ⁩ his signed jersey is my grandson’s Christmas present and he replied “You should get him something else.” (the kidvis happy) #Redsfest
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A happy Monday for Columbus businessman Jeffrey Stone, a @miamiuniversity alum and father of Oscar's best actress:
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This is totally out of line for a state Supreme Court justice. @GovMikeDeWine needs to get on the phone and tell him to show some decorum. It’s difficult to imagine @senrobportman or other serious Ohio Republicans being able to urge anyone to vote for him after this.
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As if voting for his own dad’s cases isn’t bad enough, OH Justice Pat DeWine now “liking” a tweet spreading unfounded disinformation about an assassination attempt. Please. Whatever you can do. Help us defeat this wholly unfit Justice. Give here:
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Sometimes I think this campaign is really a mockumentary about a politician who is always saying ridiculously inappropriate things
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Ohio GOP Senate candidate who compared refugees to alligators is the grandson of refugees aided by resettlement organizations
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By ⁦ @knecessary ⁩ ⁦ @Enquirer
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@katyyyknapp Does jealous rage come naturally to people in Buffalo?
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Early voters in Ohio, been waiting since 6:40 for 8 am start in Hamilton County. Hundreds in line
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By this logic, Butler and Clermont County residents should vote for Democrats because of their higher-than-Hamilton County jumps in valuations and property taxes. But as reasonably informed people know, elected Republican officials in Columbus have failed to provide relief.
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These signs are popping up in Hamilton County because the Democrats with their soaring valuations and their out-of-control property taxes are CRUSHING middle class families. Make no mistake—the policies of the Democrats have gouged taxpayers with soaring taxes. Vote accordingly.
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Got Aardvark Milk? The Smithsonian does, from @cincinnatizoo mom
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Does anyone else watch the school closings to see if your old high school is going to be closed even though it has no impact on your current life?
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BREAKING: Josh Mandel, a Marine veteran and former state treasurer, says he will make a third run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, taking a pro-Trump message in a bid for the seat being vacated by the GOP’s Rob Portman. @jcarrsmyth @AP @AP_Politics
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