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Ohio Secretary of State's office changes election night reporting requirements

On October 3, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted issued a directive that no longer requires county boards of elections to send precinct-by-precinct level data to his office in time-based increments on Election Day. The new requirement is to provide their county’s “summary results” only, instead of…

FBI Report targets anti-fracking activists as terrorists for non-violent protests, movie attendance

The FBI may have you on a terrorist list. Have you been to see “Gasland” or attended a zoning meeting on fracking? The Columbus Free Press obtained a July 23, 2013 FBI's Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force report on “Environmental Extremists.” The FBI and the Pennsylvania State Patrol…

And so the fracking cover up begins

A headline in the Saturday, November 30 Columbus Dispatch screamed: “Family’s well not tainted by driller.” The lead asserts that, “Natural gas that caught fire after it bubbled from a faucet in a Portage County house did not come from a nearby shale well, state officials have concluded.” The…

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Ohio Secretary of State's office changes election night reporting requirements

FBI Report targets anti-fracking activists as terrorists for non-violent protests, movie attendance

And so the fracking cover up begins

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