Ohio

Yesterday on ABC's This Week, Ohio Governor John Kasich dismissed the sweetener McConnell added to Trumpcare as a bribe/figleaf for mainstream Republicans-- $45 billion for opioid treatment-- for what it is: a bribe to "buy people off," people meaning Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and his own state's Rob Portman. "That would give me a billion over ten years? Not even quite that," said Kasich. "It’s anemic. As I said to Senator Portman at one point, it’s like spitting in the ocean.

(ANTIMEDIA) Middletown, Ohio — As states across the country struggle to combat the rising opioid epidemic, one city in Ohio is considering a highly controversial strategy.

Grocery ambitions, opioid Ohio and the Maryjane Report + this day in history w/Hinckley insanity and our song of the day by Iron & Wine on your Morning Monarchy for June 21, 2017.

A Lakewood Ohio police officer slammed a teenage girl to the ground and broke her jaw, all because the girl’s music was too loud in a public library while she was wearing headphones. The officer even put the girl in a submission move called the “Full Nelson”. And while the girl was bleeding, other officers just stood around and never provided first aid.
Now the officers involved are being sued along with the city of Lakewood and the library where the incident occurred.

The state government of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against five drug companies: accusing them of unlawful and unethical marketing practices. These include pursuing undue influence over medical spokesmen and publishing false information. [...]

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Every week is global sharing week in the real world economy; the drug war fails keep growing higher than the spring harvest; and the fake left begins to turn on itself.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Every week is global sharing week in the real world economy; the drug war fails keep growing higher than the spring harvest; and the fake left begins to turn on itself.

(ANTIMEDIA) Ohio — Joining other states battling a growing epidemic of addictions to prescription painkillers, it was announced Wednesday that Ohio is suing five pharmaceutical corporations for, as reported by the Associated Press, “intentionally misleading patients about the dangers of painkillers and promoting benefits of the drugs not

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference at a Kroger store to announce the chain’s decision to offer the opioid overdose reversal medicine Naloxone without a prescription, Feb. 12, 2016, in Cincinnati. (AP/John Minchillo)
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Wednesday the filing of a lawsuit against numerous prescription pain medication manufacturers, as part of the Buckeye State’s ongoing effort to fight its opioid addiction epidemic.

Want to understand Kasichism? Ohio Governor John Kasich has a new book out, Two Paths: America Divided or United, and you don;'t even have to read it because he's on a media blitz to push it. On The View Tuesday he addressed the reason-- a 2020 presidential run-- most people are paying attention to it: "A lot of people say, 'Well, he wrote this be 'cause he wants to run for office or whatever.' No, I wrote this book because, folks, we can't live fighting, even inside our own families."Later he was on Chris Hayes' show. It was so dull.