Events

May Primary Filing Deadline
Filing deadline for candidates for the May 2015 primary is February 4, 2015.
Feb 4, 2015

Central and Executive Committee Meetings
Central Committee meeting will be held on Thursday February 19th at 7 pm. You are encouraged to attend but If can not be there, please email Mike Oatney at: moatney@columbus.rr.com. Executive Committee will follow.
Event Details  ·  Feb 19, 2015

#RootsCampOH
RootsCamp is a chance for Ohio's progressive activists, organizers, leaders, techies, fundraisers and bloggers to dialogue with each other. We'll share innovations, failures, old wisdom and new discoveries.
Event Details  ·  Feb 28, 2015

Executive Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Members, the Next meeting will be held on Thursday March 19th at 7 pm. You are encouraged to attend but If can not be there, please email Mike Oatney at: moatney@columbus.rr.com.
Event Details  ·  Mar 19, 2015

Aug 5 Filing deadline for Non partisan races
Filing Deadline for Non Partisan Races in the November Election
Event Details  ·  Aug 5, 2015

Dec 9 filing deadline for Partisan races 2016 primary election
Declarations of candidacy for partisan candidates must be filed by 4 p.m. (90 days before presidential primary election)
Event Details  ·  Dec 9, 2015

News Articles

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Romney's out, pundits scramble to explain why
From Pew Research David Karol: We cannot know all the factors that went into Romney’s decision, and maybe we never will. Politics, as Bismarck said, is not an exact science, and neither is political science. But as far as it goes, the abortive Romney 2016 bid is consistent with a view of...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Open thread for night owls. Ben Adler: President Obama ignores himself on climate change
Scene from Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Ben Adler at Grist writes Obama ignores Obama on climate change. An excerpt: President Obama is once again contradicting himself on climate change. His new push for offshore oil and gas drilling is just the latest instance. Last...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Economics Daily Digest: Wal-Mart and manufacturing, infrastructure spending, the sharing economy
By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest. Wal-Mart’s Manufacturing Recovery? (The Hill) Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Damon Silvers says that Wal-Mart's manufacturing initiative...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Jan 30, 2015  

Islamic State hostage drama reveals 'chink in the armor'
Experts say there is a change in the extremist group's propaganda technique.
News Item  ·  Yahoo News Democratic Party  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Serena Williams wins 6th Australian, 19th major title
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams won her 19th Grand Slam title, continued her unbeaten run in six Australian Open finals and extended her decade-long domination of Maria Sharapova with a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory despite a hacking cough on Saturday night.
News Item  ·  Yahoo News Democratic Party  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Germany's Merkel says she doesn't see another Greek debt cut
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined the refusal of Greece's European creditors to consider forgiving part of the debt-ridden country's rescue loans, though she stressed in an interview published Saturday that Berlin's aim is to keep Greece in the eurozone.
News Item  ·  Yahoo News Democratic Party  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

The Sports Edition
Listen to Episode No. 38 of Slate Money:
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

The One-Man Beautification Plan
Listen to Episode 185 of Slate’s The Gist:
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Jan 30, 2015  

Op-Ed Columnist: New York’s Real Scandal
The Sheldon Silver affair shows that some corruption can be perfectly legal.
News Item  ·  New York Times Op-Ed  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Editorial: Rooting Out Brutality at Rikers Island
Joseph Ponte, commissioner of New York City's Department of Correction.
News Item  ·  New York Times Op-Ed  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Editorial: China’s Self-Destructive Tech Crackdown
President Xi Jinping of China.
News Item  ·  New York Times Op-Ed  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Who Is Running for President (or Not)?
By deciding against a bid, Mitt Romney frees up scores of donors who can now look to the dozen or so Republicans and handful of Democrats who have expressed an interest in running in 2016.
News Item  ·  New York Times  ·  Jan 31, 2015  

Shots Fired During Protest Against Charlie Hebdo in Kabul
Witnesses said at least eight people were wounded Saturday at a demonstration against the French newspaper’s publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
News Item  ·  New York Times  ·  Jan 31, 2015