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The Ohio High School Athletic Association released an update to their Coronavirus regulations December 1, with predictable rules such as the wearing of masks while in community areas and during team travel, and temperature testing before competition. However, it also included some seemingly contradictory rules such as the elimination of athlete handshakes pre-and post-match. Officials are also no longer allowed to indicate the winner of the match by raising the wrestler’s hand. Fist bumping other wrestlers, coaches, or officials is also prohibited. Dr. Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, wrote in May about...

The Cleveland Indians will be bowing to pressure from mostly Caucasian social justice warriors over their “racist” nickname. An announcement is expected as early as this week.The NY Times reported the long-time Major League Baseball franchise will be following the Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Redskins, in pandering to demands by those who are easily offended by traditions. That means Chief Wahoo, the iconic mascot for the team, will no longer be employed. According to The Times:Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away...

The collapse took place around 9 a.m. at the site of the former Killen Generating Station along U.S. 52. Officials said the building was in the middle of a demolition when the awning of the plant collapsed. Adams County Sheriff Kim Rogers said, initially, five people were unaccounted for following the collapse. Three of the five people have since been located and taken to the hospital for treatment. Two were taken to the hospital early on, and a third was taken to an area hospital after being buried under the rubble for hours. The first two are expected to be...

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Wednesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the 17 state attorneys general who supported his lawsuit to contest the presidential election results of four battleground states were “morally and ethically bankrupt.”

An Ohio bill recognizing the humanity of unborn babies killed in abortions is on its way to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk after the state Senate passed it Wednesday. The final vote on the Unborn Child Dignity Act was 23-7, according to Cleveland.com. The state House passed the bill last week, and DeWine, a pro-life Republican, is expected to sign it into law. “This important piece of pro-life legislation is now headed to the Governor’s desk!” Ohio Right to Life wrote on Twitter after the vote. The legislation requires the Ohio Department of Health to establish rules for the proper and...

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that “enough is enough,” adding that President Donald Trump and Republicans needed to accept former Vice President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. In a video, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said, “Even after this office request that President Trump try and quell the violent rhetoric being born out of his continuing claims of winning the states where he obviously lost, he tweeted out, ‘Expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia.’ This is exactly the kind of language that’s at the base for a growing threat environment...

Comparing the 2020 final presidential swing state polls to the corrupted results reveals the extent of the vote theft by the party of Harras-RobbinIT-Biden. Trafalgar Group was one of the best pollsters of 2016 and are based in Atlanta, Georgia.

LINK ONLY per FreeRepublic posting guidelines.https://news.yahoo.com/no-proof-mass-fraud-change-120136925.html

John Kasich, the former Ohio governor who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016, said Sunday that he found it “amazing” that fellow Republicans are “sitting on their hands” and refusing to defend the integrity of the election against President Donald Trump. Kasich, a frequent Trump critic, said on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” that he believes the lack of action is because Republicans are “either in complete lockstep” with Trump - “or they’re afraid of him.” The GOP’s part in enabling Trump is “extremely disappointing for someone who has been a Republican all of my life,” he added. Kasich...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Court of Claims has ordered the Ohio Department of Health to release data about daily hospital staffing levels, medical supplies and bed capacity as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The court ruled this week in favor of Eye on Ohio, Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism, which sued after it was denied a data request submitted in March. In rejecting the records request, the Ohio Department of Health argued the data are security records exempted from disclosure under the state’s public records law. The information tracked through the Ohio Department of Health’s data-gathering software, Surgenet, is for...

(CNN)Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that the country needs to consider Joe Biden the President-elect -- joining a growing list of Republican allies to President Donald Trump who say the 2020 race is over. "I think that we need to consider the former vice president as the President-elect. Joe Biden is the President-elect," DeWine told CNN's John Berman on "New Day." DeWine, who endorsed Trump for a second term, said that the President and his campaign have "every right" to bring legal challenges contesting the election results, and that the courts "are the best place, frankly, to adjudicate...

In a pro-life victory for Ohio, President Donald Trump convincingly won the Ohio presidential election. Another statewide race trended positively for pro-life Ohio Supreme Court Justice Sharon Kennedy. Defying polling expectations pro-life Republicans not only maintained control of the Ohio House and Senate, they increased their super majorities in both chambers. “Last night, voters resoundingly affirmed what we already know- Ohio is pro-life,” said Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life. “Regardless of what lies Planned Parenthood and their allies would want you to believe, the results of last night’s election prove that Ohioans continue to vote their values...

Mishkin, 65, would seem an unlikely election analyst for the news network that is closely associated with the Republican Party. A registered Democrat, both his parents were Holocaust survivors, as he detailed in a speech to his Upper West Side synagogue B’nai Jeshurun in 2001. His father was the physics and engineering professor Eli Mishkin, whose obituary said he was the first person to receive a doctorate from the Israel Institute of Technology. His mother Esther volunteered at YIVO, the institute for Jewish research that preserves European Jewish history. Tuesday night wasn’t the first time Mishkin angered Republican politicians tracking...

Written in collaboration with the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition Civic engagement doesn’t begin and end at the ballot box. While voting is a critical part of making your voice heard, the work isn’t over after the first Tuesday in November. Whether that involves engaging in activism, advocacy, education, or something else, Antoinette Asimus from the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition provided a list of suggestions for keeping civically engaged after the election. Join a local organization Asimus recommended several groups that center around voting and voters rights: - League of Women Voters - Cincinnati Area - Ohio Voter Rights Coalition -...

Newsmax just called Ohio for Donald J. Trump. Whoever wins Ohio wins the election

1. The early returns Most of the early vote, mailed in or conducted in person, will be among the first results released soon after polls close at 7:30 p.m. When you see a vote total with 0% of the precincts reporting, these are votes each Board of Elections had in hand by Election Day. Historically, this is a pretty good indicator of how the final tally will turn out. A cleveland.com analysis of this early vote in local elections for Cuyahoga County last year found the typical swing from this first count until the end of the night was just...

Ohio’s most populous county, Franklin, switched to paper poll books after experiencing technical difficulties on Election Day, Secretary of State Frank LaRose said Tuesday. Officials warned residents to brace for long lines and wait times early on election morning when polling workers began using the old-fashioned method to check in voters after learning that their electronic check-in system was not fully updated with new data. "It's important to note that this does NOT impact voting machines in any way, and only modifies how voters are checked in," a spokesperson for La Rose said on Twitter.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Health and elections officials in Cuyahoga County are urging voters diagnosed with COVID-19, or voters who feel ill, to use Ohio’s curbside voting option on Tuesday. Though curbside voting is a long-standing practice in Ohio and available to everyone, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and Board of Health want ill voters to exercise the option this year, as coronavirus infections skyrocket across the state. “For someone that is ill or has been diagnosed with COVID, we STRONGLY encourage you to utilize the ‘curbside voting’ option,” a Board of Health spokeswoman told The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com...

resident Trump has moved three points ahead of Democrat Joe Biden in Ohio, a state that is key to Trump’s hopes of staying in the White House. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey of Likely Voters in Ohio shows Trump with 48% support to Biden’s 45%. Two weeks ago, Biden was leading Trump 48% to 46%. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Factor in those who haven’t made up their minds yet but are leaning toward one candidate or the other, and Trump...

I hate (and I do mean HATE) the trend of journalists, analysts, and commentators rushing to the closest television camera or website to make their Nostradamus-like forecast of what is going to happen on Election Day. When did the craft of journalism include the fine art of prognostication? (I mean, other than suggesting whether or not you should take the three points on the Lions at home this weekend... spoiler alert: Yes, you should.) I personally detest every smart guy and gal telling you what's about to happen on Election Day rather than analyzing what is actually happening right now and...