Month: October 2025

Can Mentor Schools Be Saved?

“I am absolutely repulsed to learn that a 15-year-old Mentor High School student was arrested last week on child pornography charges. Yet, even worse, I am revolted to learn that you may have allowed a potential sex offender, who was charged with 36 felony counts including pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, back onto Mentor Public School property.”…Senator Bernie Moreno

Fairport Harbor Village Property Tax Renewal

A renewal of a tax for the benefit of Fairport Harbor Village for the purpose of current operating expenses that the county auditor estimates will collect $185,656 annually, at a rate not exceeding 3.6 mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $57 for each $100,000 of the county auditor’s appraised value, for 5 years, commencing in 2025, first due in calendar year 2026.

The Problem with Terrorism Is TERROR

“The distinguishing feature of terrorism is that it targets  civilian  populations. The history of warfare was forever changed by the acceptance of civilians as military targets in the Middle East. Islam is not a religion like any other. Islam is a theocracy. It is a supremacist, expansionist, binary, sociopolitical replacement ideology with a religious foundation.”…LInda Goudsmit

Casting Down Imaginations

” But let me clue you in to something that seems, to me, to be elementary, yet so elusive for so many:  as human beings we have two choices:  we either worship God or we worship Satan, in any number of disguises he will appear to us in, whichever disguise he knows will appeal to us most.  There are NO OTHER alternatives.  It is one or the other.”…Robert Pue

UN Takes Aim at Home Education

““The homeschooling concept is predicated on two interlocking, equally robust cornerstones: the God-given, natural right of parents to own and direct the education of their children, and the right of self-funded educators to govern their educational private property without the interests of the state trespassing upon their family’s private domain,”…Diane Douglas Former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Will Property Rights Be Protected?

“APC is working with many local activists across the nation. For example, in Ohio, APC is working with activists who are organizing a campaign to end property taxes. It looks like they are going to get the issue on the ballot and that will help build a major force that will grow across the nation.”…Tom DeWeese

Conditional Proponent Testimony of HB 427 by Mayor John Marra

“Meanwhile, ordinary Ohioans who opted out of smart meters already pay $25–$40 per month just to keep analog meters—paying extra for independence.
Now, HB 427 would expand the same system that enables remote control of their thermostats, appliances, and hot-water heaters. Yes, participation is labeled “voluntary,” but economic incentives make refusal unrealistic.”…Mayor John Marra