Dispatch:
(from a picture caption) Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, lower right, walked out of the State of the State address to join Senate Bill 5 protesters in the Statehouse Rotunda. Fedor said she walked out when Gov. Kasich said, "These folks have not sacrificed enough."
...The closest he came to specifics on changes was when he spoke about late-in-life care, when Kasich said he wants to make it easier for the elderly to receive care at home avoid being placed in nursing homes....
How does he think that that family members will be able to physically take care of parents? Is he going to provide the money and muscle to lift elderly parents to the shower, bathroom, and into the car? Some people will have to quit their jobs to care for elderly family members.
Does Kasich think that public employees haven't sacrificed enough? When he had his fancy job at Ohio State where he collected $50,000/year for a one hour lecture/month, he had one of his buddies work as his assistant. Is he trying to compare his "lecture" to teaching school? Give me a break.
I'm so freakin' tired of him talking about Naples, Florida. If he is sooooooooo in love with that part of the country, why didn't he move down there? Not everyone owns million dollar homes like those in Naples, Florida. His view of things is definitely distorted.
I'd say he definitely disrespected the families and young people involved in agriculture when he said he would not sleep in a barn at the Ohio State Fair. What would you expect from a former Vice President of Lehman Brothers?
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****** Huffington Post is reporting that drilling has stopped in Arkansas because it might be the cause of the earthquakes that are happening there:
Two natural gas companies have agreed to temporarily suspend use of injection wells in central Arkansas where earthquakes keep occurring.
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy and Clarita Operating of Little Rock told the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission on Friday that they've stopped operation of the wells near Greenbrier and Guy pending the panel's next regular meeting on March 29.....
.......The commission says there is likely a link between the wells and the earthquakes. There have been more than 800 quakes in the area in the past six months and a magnitude 4.7 quake – the strongest in Arkansas in 35 years – hit there Sunday....
Do you know the name of the company drilling in Ohio?
Automatedtradernet:
....Spit from that machine last summer was a mineral rights lease offer -- just like those being hand-delivered to homeowners -- from oil and gas explorer Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK). In the subsequent months Chesapeake's oil-field leasing agents swarmed the region, laying claim to what the company and others say may be one of the last big unconventional oil discoveries in the U.S.....
.....Ohio is bracing for an oil boom as companies, led by Chesapeake, gobble up leases covering millions of acres in the eastern half of the state. While no one's yet proven the commercial potential of the Utica formation, an oil-rich layer of rock that underlies this area, some believe it will yield crude on par with the largest shale reservoirs in the U.S. and spark a Rust Belt resurrection.....
.....Still, there has been skepticism among some residents. Environmentalists contend that a shale drilling process, known as hydraulic fracturing, risks contaminating groundwater. Ohio has seen cases of aquifer methane contamination, though they've not been explicitly linked to hydraulic fracturing.....
This is just what we need in Ohio----- earthquakes and groundwater contamination. How will that be received by Ohioans?
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