Members of the Secular Education Association raised concerns on social media that LifeWise employees are not properly vetted. https://nbc4i.co/4v1Mm1h?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

News from the Medicaid Front—the committee that will be working on Medicaid fraud reform is adding new members. www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Republicans come to grips with midterm reality: Trump won’t be doing them any favors

evergreen matternews.org/community/th...

Another story from my Shirley Jackson era! open.substack.com/pub/houseofl...

Twenty-one just feels like too many pilots, if you ask me.

Every time I watch Red River I love it more, but also John Wayne cannot hold a gun like a normal person.

Watching Widow’s Bay in Ohio

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appoints Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson to replace Dave Yost as attorney general.

Leonard is now up over Miller, 53% to 47%

Derek Merrin won Ohio’s 9th Congressional District’s Republican Primary and will now face Ohio Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur in the Nov. 3 election, the Associated Press projected Tuesday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/05/d...

In his victory remarks tonight, Ramaswamy has twice compared Ohio to Texas, Florida and Tennessee. He's said before he wants to make Ohio the capital of free market conservatism.

Still a close race for Ohio's 15th congressional district where former state Rep. Adam Miller is leading newcomer Don Leonard 51 to 48.

Ohio Senate President Rob McColley is delivering remarks as Ramaswamy’s running mate

In the Democratic primary for Ohio Attorney General, John J. Kulewicz is growing his lead over Elliot Forhan, who was ousted from his own caucus due to his behavior as a state rep three years ago.

Inside the Vivek Election Day party at Spruce St Sporting. Speaker Matt Huffman and Vivek’s running mate, Senate President Rob McColley have arrived. A legislative aide has already asked if I need a beer. I do.

Waiting in the lobby of the AC hotel where Vivek Ramswamy’s campaign is holding their election night event

Presumptive Democratic nominee for Ohio governor greets supporters at the Westgate Community Center

Ramaswamy will almost certainly become the GOP nominee for governor tonight (and Acton is running unopposed). No matter who wins in November, Ohio will have a governor next year with limited government experience: www.nbc4i.com/news/your-lo...

Happy primaries, Ohio!

Really love the idea of WWI officers marching through the trenches saying “Are we cooked, fam?”

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Why would anyone want this?

NYT: “.. A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his “a whole civilization will die tonight” threat .. have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Trump goes after Pope Leo XIV, saying he is "WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy" says "And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do."

JD Vance suffers his biggest foreign policy failure since a little earlier this morning.

One great thing about the Artemis II mission is that it opens so many new opportunities for Monitoring The Situation. artemistracker.com

wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

LOOK AT THAT SON OF A BITCH GO

NASA is taking a giant leap on Wednesday with the long-awaited launch of its Artemis II mission. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/nasas-artemis-ii-set-to-launch-wednesday-what-to-know/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Protestors starting to arrive at the Ohio Statehouse for #NoKings in Columbus

Creatures. Grotesqueries. Aliens. Cryptids. Ghosts. These are a few of the anomalies we’ve unearthed. Allow us to lure you in. Let us captivate & tantalize you with the unknown. But beware, you might not be ready for what you find. Or what finds you. tinyurl.com/OfBeastsandB...

Time After Time, a new anthology from Thalia Press, is available now! It features 13 historical crime stories, including one of mine set in Civil War-era Columbus: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS23VYCQ

Daylight savings is only hard if you still believe in time.

I have a new story published with House of Long Shadows, based on one of my favorite places in Ohio. open.substack.com/pub/houseofl...

In interviews with Matter News, former staffers described what they termed a history of inappropriate behavior within the shop enabled and perpetrated by owner Nick Wolak, who said the business is "putting in the work to make Evolved Body Art better from the ground up" matternews.org/community/ev...

A fourth U.S. service member has been killed in the U.S. military operation against Iran, officials said early Monday. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/fourth-us-service-member-killed-in-iran-operation/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

My new Civil War spy story "The Coffin House" is featured in the upcoming Time After Time anthology from Thalia Press: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPQMXFDS #HistoricalMysteries #MysteryReaders #CrimeFiction #ShortStories #PreOrder #MysteryBooks #TimeAfterTime #NewRelease #MysteryAnthology #ThaliaPress

Huge, unexpected L for species & varieties.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

on the lookout for a new labor columnist. feel free to message me or drop a comment if you know of any local writers who might be a good fit.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Olympics/Super Bowl weekend has really hammered home the truism that this place kinda sucks for sporting events compared with Old Twitter (which honestly was not the case during the World Series).

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get & they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

The conditions on N. Wilson Road where a person was struck and killed late Monday night are about what you would expect - a nightmare for someone trying to get anywhere without a car.