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Learn to Love an Addict: Breakdown the Opioid Crisis with an Addict’s Mother [Podcast]
This week, T.J. is joined by Debra Hanby, the mother of an opioid addict who found her life’s purpose through her son’s experience.T.J. is the host of 'Deconstructed,' formerly titled 'A Civil Assessm ...
13 Mar, 2018
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1 min read
Small Town May Strip Partisanship From Local Elections
Most voters, and probably you, too, recognize America’s two-party political system for what it is: a trap.Red and blue colored ties play good-cop-bad-cop on television for three years at a time while ...
09 Mar, 2018
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4 min read
Yank Her Mic: Moment My Interviewee Gets Microphone Ripped at Supreme Court Protest
I watched as the microphone I had clipped to my interviewee's coat was suddenly yanked off, and she was silenced by a well-dressed woman with the teacher's union who had approached us. We were standin ...
28 Feb, 2018
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4 min read
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Severe & Pervasive (Plus the Grey Area in Between)
T.J. O'Hara is joined by Associate Dean Sandra Sperino from University of Cincinnati College of Law. The two discuss sexual harassment within the context of our current socio-political envir ...
21 Feb, 2018
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Vermont Governor Signs Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana legislativelyMarijuana will be legal in nine states and the nation’s capital when Vermont law takes effec ...
22 Jan, 2018
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Vermont Makes History with Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is poised to become the 30th U.S. state to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational consumption, and the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana t ...
11 Jan, 2018
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2 min read
How Michigan Voters Can Save Themselves from the Tyranny of Gerrymandering
Nothing is less American than political parties. As a country, we fancy ourselves a meritocracy staffed by conscientious and well-informed voters.But that can’t possibly be true so long as we continue ...
03 Jan, 2018
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6 min read
In Big Win for Federalism, "Magic" Mushrooms Up Next for CA Ballot?
Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and g ...
29 Nov, 2017
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Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Clear Threat to Property Rights in America
Property rights are fundamental in America – or at least they are supposed to be.Yet each year, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies seize hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cars, homes, ca ...
21 Nov, 2017
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4 min read
Voting Rights At Stake in Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Update October 3, 2017: The full transcript has been released for the oral argument in Gill v. Whitford. Check out the transcript below. The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Gill v. W ...
03 Oct, 2017
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