Ohio Senate Bill 311, also known as the Ohio Core Bill, has passed through the state Senate and is now in the House.
The Columbus Dispatch/Ohio News Network discusses a provision in the bill that allows students involved in sports, band, or cheerleading to get out of the one-semester physical education requirement.
Not everyone at Pickerington Central, [...]
I happened to be at Cafe Connections in Newark, OH, when a Newark Advocate reporter was interviewing the owners. The article appeared in Friday’s Advocate. The article focuses on the cafe’s military wall, which does have a nice collection of patches, newspaper articles, and such.
If you bring your own computer, the wireless internet [...]
The New York Times reports that even before this crop of newly elected Democrat representatives is sworn in, they are already campaigning for the next election. It wouldn’t surprise me if Republicans had been doing this also, but this is the first time a party has been this overt about the use of Congressional power.
Those [...]
ABC News reports that a former Texas drug officer is publishing and selling a video to help drug runners avoid being busted by the police.
Cooper, who said he favors the legalization of marijuana, made the video in part because he believes the nation’s fight against drugs is a waste of resources. Busting marijuana users fills [...]
It’s going to be quite hard to answer some questions I have on this topic without flying over the interest of most of my readers, but I’m hearing a tension in the discussion of sanctification in the Lutheran blogosphere. Maybe this tension isn’t supposed to be resolved. I hope to ask questions in the way [...]
Reuters reports that the British government wants to install panic rooms in the homes of those suffering from domestic violence.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will announce new guidance to local councils on how to set up the schemes later on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government. It will also give [...]
This time in Cleveland we stayed Marriott’s Courtyard Cleveland Airport South in Middleburg Heights. This was my first visit to a Courtyard brand.
The room was quite large, spacious enough for a wheelchair to maneuver around, but this wasn’t a handicapped room. Our room had two full-size beds which were quite soft. Each bed got four [...]
Ask the Pastor hosts the thirty-ninth edition of the Lutheran Carnival. He spotlights Martin Luther’s wife and has enough posts to sort into three groups. It’s guaranteed to teach the reader something.
Thank you, Pastor Snyder, for your hard work, and congratulations for your “Person of the Year” award.
