![]() The truth is, Obama's a far cry from perfect, but he's not the monster he was advertised to be. (I've been trying to get rid of Grandma for weeks, but she's still around, griping about Obama being a Muslim.) Obamacare was supposed to send old people to death panels, but I see no sign of that. Nobody came for my guns, even though I stocked up and stored them in my official Joe the Plumber, Obama-proof gun cabinet. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to everything still looks pretty much the same. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Jean Schmidt conceded the Republican primary in her Cincinnati-area district to Iraq war veteran and Army combat surgeon Brad Wenstrupĭemocrat William Smith was leading the Democratic primary to oppose Wenstrup in the southern Ohio district.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Kucinich and Kaptur are both liberal Democrats who have been friends for years, but their campaign took a negative turn. The decision to snake a district along the Lake Erie shoreline linking the Democratic strongholds of Cleveland and Toledo resulted in the state's lone intraparty contest between sitting House members. Ohio Republicans drew just four of 16 districts that lean Democratic in a state that is evenly divided between the two parties. Whichever party controls a state legislature typically sets redistricting so that incumbents in the majority party are protected and minority party seats are put at risk. Ohio's lagging population growth caused the loss of two of its 18 congressional seats. Last summer, as Ohio's redistricting process was under way, he had flirted with running for an open House seat in Washington state.ĭistricts are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population changes in the new census. ![]() ![]() Kucinich is an eight-term congressman and two-time presidential candidate from Cleveland known for his quirky style and politically combative flair. ![]() Kaptur did not respond to Kucinich's criticism, but said in a statement that she will need his supporters, and those of another primary contender, Graham Veysey, in the general election. "I hope this is not a representation of how she'll run the district," he said. In a concession speech just past midnight, a bitter Kucinich described Kaptur's campaign as "lacking in integrity, filled with false truths." She ran a campaign that emphasized her record of bringing federal money and projects back to the state. Kaptur is in her 15th term representing the Toledo area. Kaptur defeated longtime Washington colleague Dennis Kucinich Tuesday in a bruising Ohio showdown made necessary by the newly drawn congressional map. ![]() From ‘Yellowstone’ to ‘The Chosen,’ boom times for small Texas towns ![]()
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