Ohio state legislature wants to cut weeks off school calendar to promote tourism

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Sunday February 05, 2012 · 9:21 PM PST

2012/02/05 · 21:21

A truly absurd bill is gaining at least some traction in the Ohio state House of Representatives. HB191 proposes that school districts should be prohibited from starting the school before Labor Day in an effort to promote tourism in the state.

If that was not absurd enough, the same bill is proposing that the state measure the school year not by days, but by hours. In this case, the legislature wants a minimum 1,001 hours of annual instruction. The current state law requires schools to be open a minimum of 182 days.

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Tuesday December 06, 2011 · 11:07 AM PST

2011/12/06 · 11:07

Saw this speech by Rep. Peter DeFazio while wandering around some Postal Service blogs today. I'm not sure the dire situation can be described more clearly.

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Wednesday November 18, 2009 · 10:43 AM PST

2009/11/18 · 10:43

On the front page of the USA Today this morning was an excellent, but way too short analysis on the varying prices of Tamiflu.

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 12:09 PM PDT

2009/03/18 · 12:09

Conservative columnist and decorated intellectual Thomas Sowell defends Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter in one of his latest syndicated columns, Republican Civil War.

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 3:09 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 15:09

The meat of this poll is not in the numbers however. The comments made to newspaper reporters by some Ohio residents are sickening.

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 11:36 PM PDT

2008/07/09 · 23:36

In an interview with KDKA July 9th, John McCain claimed he recited the Pittsburgh Steelers starting defensive line when under distress with his North Vietnamese captors.

"When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line -- of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates!"

That's all well and good, but from 1967 to 1973 during McCain's imprisonment, the Steelers were just starting the process of assembling the great teams everyone remembers.

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Ohio state legislature wants to cut weeks off school calendar to promote tourism

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USA Today report on Tamiflu price gouging

Thomas Sowell jumps on the grenade

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