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Our first shipment of signs was dropped off recently. The signs are from Rural Organzing, an excellent organization trying to shift Ohio to better governance. If you would leave your name and address and even an email address when you pick up signs, we will send them to Rural Organzing. They are not a fundraising organization and will not solicit funds. Please let us know by messaging how many you can put in visible locations. We have a limited number now, but expect more in a few weeks.
Connie Allgire put the steam behind my letter on Women's Equality Day and kudos to Rolly Myers for persistently addressing climate change in his letters to our local paper.![]()
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Women’s Equality Day is Today![]()
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A Joint Resolution of Congress passed in 1973 declaring Aug. 26 “Women’s Equality Day.”![]()
Here is an excerpt from that resolution: “Whereas, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which are available to male citizens of the United States; “and Whereas, the women of the United States have united to assure that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally regardless of sex; … “and Whereas, the women of United States are to be commended and supported in their organizations and activities, … .”![]()
Here in northwest Ohio, there are women working and volunteering in many occupations. You can find them in our businesses, hospitals, schools, military, churches, non-profit organizations, and political organizations. They truly make a difference for our families, our neighborhoods, and our world.![]()
Full rights and privileges must never be taken for granted. Vigilant citizen action is required to protect and expand the rights of all people in our communities and in our world.![]()
When the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade last year in a tightly divided opinion, our son quipped, “Next they will come after your right to vote.” I gave him the “mom look,” but now I reflect back: His logic was sound. All citizens should be able to access the healthcare they need “regardless of sex.”![]()
Mixing morality with legislation is complicated. My ancestors were active in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. They had the best reasons. But Prohibition was bad policy. Alcohol flowed freely, exacerbating crime and violence. The wealthy could drink high quality liquor; the poor not so much.![]()
Prohibition of a healthcare procedure that only women need is unjust. Wealthy women will continue to afford access. Poor women will suffer the consequences. The principle of equality is further eroded.![]()
We cannot limit access to healthcare based on sex. Let our medical professionals judge what they can and should provide for their patients. Never politicians.![]()
Prohibition of alcohol created crime, chaos and not the alcohol-free homes and harmonious families my relatives envisioned.![]()
Prohibition of access to abortion will not create healthy and happy mothers with children. Women do that best with full rights. They are doing it right now in our communities. Thank them. Empower them.![]()
Every day should be Women’s Equality Day.![]()
Dorothy Singer rural Defiance![]()
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‘Climate change’ Needs More Attention![]()
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Greenhouse gasses are so named because sunlight reflects off them trapping heat in the atmosphere like a greenhouse. Research estimates natural producers of greenhouse gases, including volcanoes, release about 645 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere each year. Human activity produces roughly 35 billion tons each year, mostly from using fossil fuel.![]()
One gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2 when burned! Gasoline is 87% carbon and 13% hydrogen. When gas burns the hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water (H2O) and carbon combines with oxygen to form CO2, a greenhouse gas.![]()
The Science Advisory Committee to President Lyndon Johnson published a comprehensive environmental report in 1965, 58 years ago, warning that “Pollutants have altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide of the air.” One of the report’s authors, geochemist Wallace Broecker, wrote “Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming” in 1974 in which he modeled climate projections which have proven remarkably accurate in decades since.![]()
Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976 and unsuccessfully pushed for a 48mpg requirement for autos. He installed solar panels on top of the White House to encourage alternative energy development and cutting back on fossil fuel. Ronald Reagan promptly removed the solar panels in 1980. In 1992 Al Gore authored “Earth in the Balance” and shared a Nobel Prize in 2007 for raising international awareness on human activities accelerating global warming, publishing, “An Inconvenient Truth”.![]()
In 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry referred to climate change as the world’s most fearsome problem. Kerry was mocked at climate hearings by House Republicans as Canadian wildfire smoke encompassed the Capitol last July, the same month both Farmers Insurance and Allstate announced no new policies would be written in Florida. As meteorologists predicted more powerful and more frequent storms would hit Florida the term “climate change” was banned by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in official documents, an ostrich reaction deniers employ, but one insurers avoid.![]()
The Biden administration has set a goal and developed policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030. No one has all the answers, but humanity suffers greatly if we cannot, or will not, strategically address the defining issue of our time, climate change.![]()
Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”![]()
Rolland Myers rural Oakwood
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From Pastor Jim Brehler:![]()
The Ohio Council of Churches is urging a NO vote on State Issue 1 in the special election next week. Remember, early voting is going on now!![]()
An excerpt from their Pastoral Letter:![]()
Such restrictions would allow one county to circumvent the will of the other 87 counties. It is clear to us that the resulting power imbalances will significantly damage many segments of Ohio’s population, particularly African American communities historically weakened by partisan gerrymandering. In addition, the proposed restrictions would effectively end the systemic safeguard known as one person, one vote that has for over a century provided every citizen access to simple majority initiatives. Jack Sullivan Jr.![]()
Guided by the wisdom of our forebears and sparked by pastoral concern over the nullifying impact Issue 1 would have on African American and other Ohio communities if enacted, the Ohio Council of Churches respectfully urges Ohio voters to reject Issue 1. Our no votes on Issue 1 will serve as a faithful and clear affirmation of the dignity and agency of every Ohioan who has for more than a century had the systemic assurance that their one vote does truly matter.![]()
To read the entire Pastoral Letter go here: files.constantcontact.com/.../f74b026f-37c9-4df5...
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