About 9% of Ohio’s state lawmakers are moms of children under 18, according to a new report, giving them insight into issues impacting families with minor children, several said in interviews. The third Politics of Parenthood: Representation in State Legislatures report was recently published by the Vote Mama Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies the […]
A 73-year-old woman is dead from medical complications she suffered while evacuating a nursing home during the start of the Old Trails fire, her daughter said.
Moments before he was set to be sentenced for tampering with statements his late wife Catherine Sorenson gave to police, 57-year-old Christopher Wardle turned to his lawyer, exchanged a few quiet words, and chuckled.
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Not long ago, I received a text from a friend, a CarePortal volunteer: “Hey, a family friend has some bedding she’d love to give to a family […]
It’s hard not to get caught up in the increasingly contentious Democratic primary battle that’s mostly being waged online this week. But outside of the social media echo chambers, people who are taking the brunt of a vicious, authoritarian regime are asking deeper questions about how to build political power. Union and immigrant-rights organizers in […]
Five human rights organizations are seeking the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, who was detained in May by immigration agents at her home in Nashville as she was putting her two young children into a car to get to a doctor’s appointment. In a formal complaint filed Wednesday with […]
Attorneys for the couple denied a marriage license by former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis more than a decade ago now allege she lied about her assets to avoid dishing out the roughly $570,000 she owes to them and to their attorneys. According to July court documents, filed in the U.S. District Court, Davis said […]
