Shortly after an 18-year-old opened fire on children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year, killing 19 students and two teachers, the New York Times published a lengthy front-page article on the killer&#8217;s background. One line in the Times&#8217; report didn&#8217;t last long, before an editor deleted it from the article, without explanation. The sentence in question quoted one of the gunman&#8217;s co-workers at Wendy&#8217;s as saying: 
<blockquote>&#8220;He would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.&#8221;</blockquote>
It was never clear why that particular line was deleted. Most likely they wanted to push gun confiscation instead, and it confused the narrative. In any event, the New York Times didn&#8217;t want to talk about the shooter&#8217;s marijuana use. If the blogger Alex Berenson hadn&#8217;t <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-new-york-times-has-edited/comments?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted</a> the change, it&#8217;s likely no one would have ever noticed it. What we do know is that, if the shooter in Uvalde was indeed a pothead, then there are a lot of other examples just like him. Many other mass shooters — from Parkland to Aurora to Tucson to Sutherland Springs — were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cannabis-and-the-violent-crime-surge-marijuana-pot-use-thc-shootings-psychosis-mental-11654540197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> marijuana users. 
That dovetails with <a href="https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19101008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> showing that young people who used marijuana were more than twice as likely to commit acts of violence. To give just one example, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32456503/#:~:text=Conclusions%3A%20These%20results%20demonstrate%20a,a%20risk%20factor%20for%20violence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">meta-analysis</a> of several large-scale studies three years ago. The conclusion: 
<blockquote>&#8220;These results demonstrate a moderate association between cannabis use and physical violence. &#8230; Cannabis use in this population is a risk factor for violence.&#8221;</blockquote>
You never hear about these studies, probably for the same reason that the New York Times censored itself for mentioning marijuana in the context of the Uvalde shooting. In elite circles, talking about the consequences of marijuana use is unpopular. Anything that discourages people from smoking more weed is also disfavored. It&#8217;s almost like they want the masses to be drugged and passive, which might explain why the cigar tax in New York is <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/cig/cigidx.htm#:~:text=New%20York%20State%20imposes%20an,one%20ounce%20or%20less%3B%20and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75%</a>, while the marijuana tax is less than <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/auc/#:~:text=If%20you%20make%20retail%20sales,sale%20or%20transfer%20is%20imposed." target="_blank" rel="noopener">15%</a>.
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Regardless of what exactly explains that discrepancy, the PR effort to push marijuana has obviously been successful over the past decade. Two dozen states have passed some form of legalization or decriminalization of weed. And because slippery slopes are real — and anyone who uses the term &#8220;slippery slope fallacy&#8221; is lying to you — the decriminalization movement did not end there. Instead, it&#8217;s progressed far beyond marijuana. 
Three years ago, on the heels of the race riots following the overdose of George Floyd, Oregon became the first state in the country to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/oregon-votes-to-decriminalize-all-drugs-allow-psilocybin-for-mental-health-treatment-11604477494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decriminalize</a> the possession of all illegal drugs —not just marijuana, but every illegal drug. Nearly 60% of voters in the state approved Measure 110, along with a separate measure that legalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapy. The idea was that laws against heroin and meth and other drugs were counterproductive and oppressive and of course racist, so they had to go.
Hopes were high. As Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/21509815/oregon-ballot-measure-110-drug-decriminalization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>&#8220;Given that decriminalization is so far untried in the US, it’s difficult to say how it would play out. In that sense, Measure 110 would create a real-time experiment for Oregon and the rest of the country.&#8221;</blockquote>
Not long afterwards, though, problems began to emerge. In 2022, a local news station embedded with the head of a Portland drug interdiction task force. Here&#8217;s what they learned:
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Measure 110, the officer says, is the reason that fentanyl and stolen handguns and machine guns are flooding Oregon. &#8220;Measure 110 has everything to do with it,&#8221; he tells the reporter.  
Now, three years after Measure 110 was passed, voters are tired of it. Polls now show that a majority of residents in Oregon now want to re-criminalize hard drugs, and a ballot measure doing so is expected next year. That&#8217;s because, predictably, decriminalizing cocaine and heroin, and everything else, has led to nothing less than the breakdown of society in Oregon. To the extent that there was a society there before this.
This week, the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working-78ee7476">published</a> an extensive analysis into the effect of Measure 110 on the state. It’s a report that everyone should read as it just entirely annihilates the case for drug legalization. And yet almost all of the pro-drug legalizers are simply ignoring it. They have gotten what they wanted — in Oregon, and to a lesser extent across the country — but you notice that they are not out touting the success of the policy they advocated for. That’s because there is no success. It has been a disaster. 
The paper reports that, as a result of the law, &#8220;People sprawled on sidewalks and using fentanyl with no fear of consequence have become a common sight in cities such as Eugene and Portland.&#8221; From May of 2022 to May of this year, the number of fatal overdoses in the state increased by more than 20%, to 1,500 overdoses. That&#8217;s the third-highest jump in the entire country. Police in Eugene Oregon report that this year, there have been 858 calls for overdoses. In 2020, the number was 438.
The whole point of Measure 110 was to force these people to go to rehabilitation services, instead of jail, but of course that hasn&#8217;t worked either: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Some 6,000 tickets have been issued for drug possession since decriminalization went into effect in 2021, but just 92 people have called and completed assessments needed to connect them to services,&#8221; the Journal reports. &#8220;The only penalty for those who don’t call is a $100 fine, which is rarely enforced.&#8221;</blockquote>
So in sum, Oregon&#8217;s decision to decriminalize all drugs has been an abject and totally predictable disaster. It turns out that when you invite people to do drugs whenever and wherever they want, you end up with a lot more people doing drugs whenever and wherever they want. Advocates for decriminalization have always claimed that decriminalizing drug use will not lead to more drug use, as though the law has absolutely no effect on people&#8217;s behavior. But that flies in the face of everything we&#8217;ve observed about human behavior since the dawn of civilized society. 
To put it simply: Laws matter. When the law allows a certain behavior, you get more of that behavior. It’s not hard to figure out this equation. 
That&#8217;s why — unless we want a lot more overdose deaths and illegal guns in major cities — we need to take a very close look at all forms of drug decriminalization, including the more limited decriminalization and legalization efforts we&#8217;ve seen across the country. As I mentioned earlier, weed is legal in most places now. How is that working out? Is there any evidence it&#8217;s making anything better? By the naked eye, it certainly seems to be contributing to our social decay. It has a demoralizing effect, at the very least, to walk through any city in America and smell the stench of weed everywhere, with people walking around stoned anywhere you go. 
I say this as someone who, for a time, believed that weed — not any other drug — should probably just be legalized or at least decriminalized, as much as I personally don’t like the drug. But I can look around at our cities, smell the stench everywhere, see people high on drugs everywhere, and ask myself: has this made society better or worse? That’s the question everyone should be asking themselves. 
Aside from the naked eye test, what does the data say? For a lot of reasons, it&#8217;s hard to measure the precise impact of marijuana decriminalization on people&#8217;s quality of life. There are so many variables — including the decision by leftist D.A.&#8217;s to stop enforcing a bunch of other laws — that it&#8217;s difficult to ascribe any particular blame to one specific policy or another. It’s all kind of a jumbled mess. To be sure, a lot of jurisdictions that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana have seen significant increases in crime. New York legalized cannabis in 2021, for example, and then immediately saw its overall crime index <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/01/05/nypd-december-2022-crime-statistics#:~:text=Police%20logged%20126%2C537%20crimes%20last,in%202021%2C%20the%20release%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">jump</a> by more than 22%. Along the same lines, after Washington&#8217;s Supreme Court struck down the state&#8217;s drug laws — effectively legalizing all drugs until legislators could fix the problem — crime spiked. Washington&#8217;s rate of violent crimes jumped from 337 per 100,000 people in 2021, to more than 375 per 100,000 people in 2022.
There&#8217;s no easy way to determine with absolute certainty at this stage what role, if any, drug legalization is playing in these numbers. But there have been some attempts at drilling this down. A couple of years ago, analysts at the Justice Research and Statistics Association <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/253137.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked</a> at the impact of marijuana decriminalization in 11 states — including Washington, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, and others — by speaking to local officials and law enforcement personnel. 
The researchers found that, after Washington state legalized recreational marijuana use in 2020, arrests for both the possession and distribution of heroin and methamphetamine increased significantly. Meanwhile in Colorado, which also decriminalized pot a decade ago, the researchers found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Respondents in particular reported an increase in the homeless population from individuals moving to the state for jobs in the marijuana industry that failed to materialize. Other concerns expressed by interviewees related to criminal behavior associated with the marijuana business, such as attempts to steal marijuana and take over selling from locals.&#8221; </blockquote>
In Oregon, there were similar concerns: &#8220;An Oregon respondent reported a 55-60% increase in marijuana-related DUIs&#8221; following marijuana decriminalization. Along the same lines, a separate research team from the University of Utah <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047235220302361#:~:text=Results%20provide%20some%20evidence%20demonstrating,legalization%2C%20including%20property%20and%20violent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutinized</a> crime data from Oregon. They found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Results provide some evidence demonstrating a crime-exacerbating effect of recreational marijuana legalization, as reflected by substantial increases in the rates of multiple types of serious crimes &#8230; in Oregon relative to non-legalized states following legalization, including property and violent crime overall, as well as other crimes such as burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny, and aggravated assault.&#8221;</blockquote>
None of this is particularly surprising, given that marijuana is a psychoactive drug that&#8217;s been linked to violent behavior. What is perhaps surprising is that, given what we know (and don&#8217;t know), several states are still pushing the decriminalization agenda. 
Ohio, for example, is set to decriminalize the drug in just a few weeks. Watch how local news is covering this:
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Notice that they&#8217;re not talking about how decriminalizing marijuana is going to make everyone more productive and happier members of society. They’re not claiming that it’s going to make the state a better place to live, which is really what every law ultimately should be designed to do. They’re not talking about how safe the schools in Ohio will be, after young children with mental disorders are granted even easier access to psychoactive drugs. Instead, they&#8217;re talking about tax revenue. They&#8217;re telling you the state will make more money. That&#8217;s the whole pitch. They&#8217;re not even pretending otherwise.
And that tells you something that even Left-wing voters in Oregon are now realizing: the more recreational drugs you legalize, the more crime and urban decay you have to deal with. This really should not be a surprise. People are more likely to do something when there is no legal ramification for doing it. That doesn’t mean everyone stops doing drugs when you make it illegal. It just means that the fewer obstacles in the way, the fewer consequences, the more of that behavior you get.
This isn’t just because of the practical obstacles put in place when something is illegal. It’s also because the law is a teacher. A thing begins to seem less objectionable to people when the law endorses it.  Ultimately, there’s no upside for anyone but the state Treasury, and the politicians who desperately need voters to be as stoned and submissive as possible. Otherwise, if voters aren&#8217;t high out of their minds, they might realize what these politicians are doing to their communities. They might realize that destruction and decay are a choice.
And then, like the voters in Oregon, they might decide they&#8217;ve finally had enough of it.
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A bus carrying students collided with truck in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> on Tuesday morning, killing three people and injuring at least 18 others.
The crash <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ohio-commercial-bus-crash-truck-f86fb65b75731e6cffb436eccc32db16" target="_blank" rel="noopener">occurred</a> about 26 miles east of Columbus and involved a bus, a semi-truck, and three other vehicles.
The semi-truck rear-ended the bus just before 9 a.m. on I-70 West near the Smoke Road underpass, according to Sean Grady, Licking County&#8217;s emergency management agency director.
Dispatchers classified the crash as a &#8220;mass casualty incident, level 3,&#8221; which means 10 or more people may have been hurt.
The bus was carrying 57 people, including students from Tuscarawas Valley Local School District in eastern Ohio, officials said.
Among the injured were 15 students.
The bus had band students on board, school district staff <a href="https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/11/14/crash-involving-charter-bus-semi-truck-shuts-down-i-71-licking-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> 19 News.
Superintendent Dr. Derek Varansky shared the &#8220;devastating and heartbreaking&#8221; news in a statement that was posted to social media.
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&#8220;Today, a charter bus carrying Tusky Valley students and chaperones on the way to the Ohio School Boards Association conference in Columbus was involved in a very serious accident,&#8221; Varansky said.
&#8220;Right now, our focus is on getting in touch with our Tusky Valley families who had loved ones on the bus and providing support to our entire school community. Our Trojan family is strong, and it will take that strength and love to get throughout these coming challenging days,&#8221; the superintendent said.
Organizers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ohio-commercial-bus-crash-truck-f86fb65b75731e6cffb436eccc32db16" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> the conference the students were headed to when they heard of the crash.
The bus company, Pioneer Trails, also released a statement confirming an incident with one of its buses.
&#8220;Pioneer is fully cooperating with the authorities as we work to find the cause of the accident. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those impacted by this accident. As this is an ongoing investigation, there will be no further comments,&#8221; the bus company said.
Governor Mike DeWine (R) appeared with authorities, including Ohio state troopers, at a press conference at the scene of the accident on Tuesday.
“This is our worst nightmare, when we have a bus full of children involved in a crash,” DeWine said during the press conference. “Prayers go out to the families, everyone who was on the bus.”
A large number of emergency responders arrived at the scene, and dozens of emergency vehicles remained at the crash site hours after it happened, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ohio-commercial-bus-crash-truck-f86fb65b75731e6cffb436eccc32db16" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Meanwhile, police blocked the entrance ramps on both sides of the highway.
Smoke could be seen coming from the crash site, Ohio Department of Transportation cameras showed.

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Voters in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> voted Tuesday to approve a ballot initiative that places a right to an abortion into the state’s constitution.
Pro-life advocates say the measure will effectively make abortion legal at any point in pregnancy. The initiative brought in millions in spending with more than $18 million being spent in favor of the pro-abortion initiative, with just $7 million being spent in opposition since August 9, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ohio-abortion-backers-victory-unbroken-winning-streak-issue-1-rcna122831" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC News.
&#8220;Our hearts are broken tonight not because we lost an election, but because Ohio families, women and children will bear the brunt of this vote. When Michigan voters passed a similar amendment last year, they were sold the lie that parental rights would be unaffected, that late-term abortion would remain illegal, and that women’s health and safety standers would not be touched. But just last week, the Michigan legislature voted to repeal penalties for partial-birth abortions, to eliminate health and safety protections at abortion facilities, and they called parental consent laws &#8216;unconstitutional.&#8217; They even vowed to come for informed consent laws and 24-hour waiting periods next. We know the same barbaric attacks on parents and children are now coming home to Ohio,&#8221; Protect Women Ohio said in a statement posted to X.
Other pro-life organizations also released statements on the vote. &#8220;Big Abortion won, while women, parents, and babies lost. Women lost common-sense protections. Parents have lost the ability to be involved in a key, and dangerous, component of their child’s medical and emotional health. And babies have been denied their bodily autonomy to grow as God intended. The work of pregnancy help will now be the only thing that can help women from the entrapment of the abortion profiteers,&#8221; said Jor-El Godsey, the president of pro-life organization Heartbeat International.
The effort to put abortion into the state constitution was backed by the Ohio Democratic Party, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, and Ohio Women’s Alliance. Martin Haskell, a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/07/16/ban-partial-birth-abortions/c09f882c-ac24-45fa-a319-a9d42d6cd3b1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proponent</a> of partial-birth abortion, <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/31/ohio-abortion-rights-measure-early-reports-foreshadow-expensive-fight/70484242007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> $100,000 to Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, a political action committee that opposed a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution and has advocated for passage of Issue 1.
Prominent Ohio Republicans, like Governor Mike DeWine and Senator J.D. Vance, spoke out against enshrining abortion into the state’s constitution, calling the measure extreme.
“Today is Election Day in Ohio. Vote NO on Issue 1! There’s been a lot of lies out there from the Yes campaign. People do in fact abort healthy late term pregnancies. Issue 1 doesn’t make it illegal to have a miscarriage. Think for yourself and vote no!” Vance posted to X on Tuesday.
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The initiative was also opposed by more than 100 black faith leaders who urged Ohioans to vote to protect life. In a previous interview with The Daily Wire, Pastor Jeff Haygood, of Living Word Church in Columbus, said that the vote would be a watershed moment for Ohio.
&#8220;This issue is going to be a watershed moment for the state of Ohio one way or another. I hope it is a moment that Ohioans rise to the occasion, take a stand for life, and move forward accordingly. If it’s not, we create a culture of death,” he said.
Previously, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-attorney-general-proposed-constitutional-amendment-would-legalize-all-abortion">said</a> that, if passed, Issue 1 would effectively legalize all abortion in the state.
“[T]he Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in Ohio’s history,” analysis from Yost said. “That new test includes definitions and other terms that likewise make it harder for any law covering ‘reproductive decisions’ to survive.”

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Students at one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> high school walked out of class on Monday in protest of a policy allowing biological boys to use the girls&#8217; bathroom if they identify as transgender.
Starting around noon, dozens of students walked out of Elida High School in northern Ohio just outside Lima, The Lima News <a href="https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2023/11/06/walkout-at-elida-high-school-protests-trans-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Parents and other members of the community have reportedly been protesting the school&#8217;s transgender bathroom policy for months, arguing that allowing biological boys to use the girls&#8217; bathroom infringes on the privacy of female students.
“We’re upset about biological boys in the girls’ bathroom,” <a href="https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2023/11/06/walkout-at-elida-high-school-protests-trans-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> one freshman girl who walked out on Monday. “The school board hasn’t been listening.”
&#8220;There&#8217;s been multiple accounts of boys coming in the bathroom, or transgender girls, and bothering the girls in there and we&#8217;re just not for it,&#8221; the freshman girl <a href="https://www.hometownstations.com/news/group-of-elida-high-school-students-stage-walkout-amid-bathroom-concerns/article_187fb028-7ceb-11ee-88c2-2b5476c6048e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WLIO. &#8220;Biological boys need to stay in their own bathroom.&#8221;
Some parents and community members joined the protesting students outside the school, cheering and praying for an end to “this evil.”
Superintendent Joel Mengerink warned that students would get after-school detention if they failed to return to class after the protest.
&#8220;We are here to see to it our students are educated in a safe environment,&#8221; Mengerink <a href="https://www.hometownstations.com/news/group-of-elida-high-school-students-stage-walkout-amid-bathroom-concerns/article_187fb028-7ceb-11ee-88c2-2b5476c6048e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Encouraging students to participate in a walkout causes a lot of safety concerns on our part not knowing who&#8217;s outside with them, especially when we just experienced a social media threat last week. It also takes away instructional time from our students and that&#8217;s what we are here for.&#8221;
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The transgender bathroom policy is reportedly part of the school district&#8217;s anti-discrimination policy, which allows trans-identifying and non-binary-identifying students to use the restroom of the opposite gender on a case-by-case basis.
The school board president said the policy is required by federal law, but some parents are not so sure.
The district also previously remodeled student bathroom stalls in an attempt to improve privacy and reassure parents.
The Ohio high schoolers are not the only students across the country who have staged a walkout protest over a transgender bathroom policy.
In September, about 400 Philadelphia-area high school students <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/philadelphia-area-school-district-bans-biological-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-after-400-students-walk-out-in-protest">walked out</a> of school to protest a similar policy. In that case, the Perkiomen Valley School District later banned biological boys from using the girls’ bathroom.
Transgender bathroom and locker room use has become a hot-button issue in many school districts around the country. Another common concern has been student gender transitions at school. Parents have <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-02/school-district-settles-100-000-lawsuit-that-claimed-it-supported-secret-transitioning-of-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> their children’s schools of keeping them in the dark about their children’s new gender identities for long periods of time. Some have gone as far as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/parents-reportedly-suing-school-district-allegedly-secretly-helped-transitioned-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing</a> their school districts.
More than 18,000 schools across the country have rules saying school staff can or should hide a student’s gender identity from parents, according to <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/list-of-school-district-transgender-gender-nonconforming-student-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a list</a> compiled by Parents Defending Education.

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Ohio Students Walk Out In Protest Of Bathroom Policy Allowing Biological Boys In Girls' Bathrooms

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Voters across the country head to the polls on Tuesday to decide key elections, including a bid by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kentucky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kentucky</a> Republicans to flip the governor’s office and a referendum in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> on whether to establish abortion as a constitutional right. 
In Kentucky, Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/andy-beshear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andy Beshear</a> is facing a challenge from Republican Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/daniel-cameron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Cameron</a>, with recent polls showing a <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/11/03/andy-beshear-daniel-cameron-tied-kentucky-governors-race-emerson-poll/71435638007/">tight race</a>. One survey released on Friday from Emerson College Polling showed Beshear and Cameron tied, with both taking 47%. 
Cameron had been behind by 16 points in the previous Emerson poll before appearing to close the gap in recent weeks. Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball said the gap seemed to narrow because Cameron &#8220;appears to have gained ground by consolidating Republican voters who supported former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.”
During his campaign, Cameron highlighted former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Trump won Kentucky by 26 points in 2020, and Republicans have a supermajority in the legislature, overturning Beshear’s vetoes on a number of occasions. 
Last year, Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historic-republicans-gain-voter-registration-advantage-in-another-state-for-the-first-time-ever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gained an edge</a> in voter registration in the commonwealth for the first time, as it has trended red in recent years. 
In Ohio, voters will decide whether to place a right to an abortion in the state constitution. Pro-life advocates say that the initiative would allow abortions at all stages of pregnancy.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-attorney-general-proposed-constitutional-amendment-would-legalize-all-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that, if passed, Issue 1 would effectively legalize all abortion in the state.
“[T]he Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in Ohio’s history,” analysis from Yost said. “That new test includes definitions and other terms that likewise make it harder for any law covering ‘reproductive decisions’ to survive.”
Since August 9, more than $18 million has been spent in favor of the pro-abortion initiative, with just $7 million being spent in opposition, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ohio-abortion-backers-victory-unbroken-winning-streak-issue-1-rcna122831" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC News. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year, seven states have put abortion rights on the ballot, and pro-life advocates <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/abortion-rights-won-every-election-roe-v-wade-overturned-rcna99031">have lost every time</a>. 
Ohioans will also vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana for adults.
In Virginia, political control of the state legislature is up for grabs with Republicans looking to hold on to the House of Delegates and take a majority in the state Senate. Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/full-panic-mode-biden-asks-dnc-to-help-out-virginia-dems-amid-record-fundraising-from-youngkin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broken fundraising records</a>, prompting President Joe Biden to ask the Democratic National Committee to donate to Virginia Democrats. A win for Republicans would give Youngkin the opportunity to get some conservative legislation passed before his term expires. 
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Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves is also on the ballot on Tuesday, facing a challenge from Democrat Brandon Presley, who has accused Reeves of corruption. Reeves won his first race in 2019 by five points, and the state consistently voted Republican in presidential elections, with <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-governors-race-election-2023-28ed92be2af47c1f3573eb364846c2d4#:~:text=The%20last%20time%20a%20Democrat,compared%20with%20Reeves%27%20%246.3%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">the last</a> Democrat to win the state being Jimmy Carter.
Voters in Pennsylvania will also vote to <a href="https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-voters-to-decide-who-fills-vacant-seat-on-state-supreme-court/45758517#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fill a vacant</a> state Supreme Court seat, which could either increase or narrow the Democrat&#8217;s 4-2 advantage on the court. Republican Carolyn Carluccio is facing off against Democrat Dan McCaffery.

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A grieving husband whose wife was murdered by their 23-year-old daughter is pleading with the court to reconsider the life sentence.
Steven Powell wrote in a September letter to the Summit County Court of Common Pleas – which is just now being <a href="https://www.insider.com/ohio-sydney-powell-life-sentence-stabbing-murder-mother-insanity-defense-2023-10">reported</a> – that his murdered wife, Brenda, wouldn’t want their daughter, Sydney, to be sentenced to life in prison for her murder, according to Insider. Steven said Brenda wouldn’t have wanted this even though she was killed violently.
&#8220;Through our 24 years of marriage that we all know was cut short in March of 2020, to this day, I can confirm with a 100% degree of certainty that this is not, what people are saying, is justice for Brenda Powell,&#8221; Steven wrote in the letter. &#8220;I believe that since there can never be true justice in this case, Sydney&#8217;s mental health should be our main priority.&#8221;
Steven asked Ohio judge Kelly McLaughlin to consider a more lenient sentence for Sydney.
Other members of Steven’s family also wrote character letters for Sydney, saying much the same. Members of the community who knew the family, including a doctor who worked with Brenda, also wrote letters calling for a lenient sentence. Brenda was a child life specialist at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Sydney killed her mother in 2020 after learning she was being kicked out of the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, due to failing grades. Brenda was on the phone with university officials, so Sydney hit her mother with an iron skillet and then stabbed her 30 times in the neck, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-woman-fatally-stabbed-mother-argument-college-suspension-sentence-rcna117823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The university officials called the Akron police once they heard screaming.
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&#8220;The phone cut off at some point after, I would say, somewhere in the neighborhood of six or seven of those thudding, those sort of thud sounds, and the screaming had continued,&#8221; Associate Dean of Students Michelle Gaffney testified at Sydney’s trial in September.
University officials kept trying to call the house back until a woman picked up the phone claiming to be Brenda.
&#8220;The voice on the other ends said, &#8216;Yes, this is Brenda. Yes, this is Brenda,'&#8221; Gaffney said at the trial. &#8220;It was not Brenda. I was sure it was Sydney. Both Dean [of Students John] Frazier and I looked at each other and sort of shook our heads at each other and said that&#8217;s not Brenda. He then said, &#8216;Sydney, I think this is you, this is not Brenda.&#8217; The phone went dead.&#8221;
Following her arrest, Sydney was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
She was found guilty in September of murder, assault, and tampering with evidence. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-dewine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike DeWine</a> urged Ohioans to reject a proposed amendment that would place a right to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> in the state constitution as early voting on the measure began on Wednesday.
DeWine and Ohio first lady Fran DeWine said that Issue 1, the measure that would put abortion into the state constitution, would “allow an abortion at any time during a pregnancy” and that it “goes too far,&#8221; in a new ad for Protect Women Ohio, a ballot issue political action committee advocating against Issue 1.
“Fran and I have carefully studied it [Issue One],” DeWine <a href="https://twitter.com/ProtectWomenOH/status/1712103157780697431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the ad. “But whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, Issue One is just not right for Ohio.”
Pro-life advocates and Republicans have said that the amendment would push forward the movement to have no limits on abortion in the state. In a legal analysis released last week, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-attorney-general-proposed-constitutional-amendment-would-legalize-all-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that, if passed, Issue 1 would effectively legalize all abortion in the state.
“[T]he Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in Ohio’s history,” the analysis said. “That new test includes definitions and other terms that likewise make it harder for any law covering ‘reproductive decisions’ to survive.”
The effort to pass Issue 1 is supported by the Ohio Democratic Party, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, and the Ohio Women’s Alliance.
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Protect Women Ohio earlier this week released an ad that pointed out that Martin Haskell, a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/07/16/ban-partial-birth-abortions/c09f882c-ac24-45fa-a319-a9d42d6cd3b1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proponent</a> of partial-birth abortion, <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/31/ohio-abortion-rights-measure-early-reports-foreshadow-expensive-fight/70484242007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had given</a> $100,000 to Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, a political action committee that opposed a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution and has advocated for passage of Issue 1.
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🚨 NEW AD: Meet Martin Haskell, the infamous abortionist who &quot;routinely&quot; performed unsafe, elective late term abortions in Ohio.
Issue 1 would give monsters like Haskell the constitutional right to bring back this barbaric practice.
Vote NO on Issue 1.<a href="https://t.co/BPdYWW3XZ3">https://t.co/BPdYWW3XZ3</a> <a href="https://t.co/CQmz4LZrnd">pic.twitter.com/CQmz4LZrnd</a>
&mdash; Protect Women Ohio (@ProtectWomenOH) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProtectWomenOH/status/1710648673082958054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Amy Natoce, press secretary for Protect Women Ohio, said in a statement to The Daily Wire that Haskell&#8217;s donation was because he knew it would be “an investment in his late-term abortion practice.&#8221;
&#8220;By allowing abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy and eliminating commonsense health and safety protections for women, Issue 1 gives free rein to late-term abortionists like Martin Haskell. No Ohioan wants to bring that type of extremism and tragedy to our state,&#8221; she said. “Martin <a href="https://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haskell invented</a> the barbaric partial-birth abortion technique in Ohio, and brags that he <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1996-09-27/html/CREC-1996-09-27-pt1-PgE1743.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;routinely&#8221; performs</a> late-term abortions at 20-24 weeks, even admitting <a href="https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/hearing-on-partial-birth-abortion-the-truth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80% of the partial-birth abortions</a> he performs are &#8216;purely elective.'&#8221;
Ohioans will also vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana for adults.
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The head coach of the women’s lacrosse team at Oberlin College, a leftist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a>-based private school, feels that she has been effectively driven out of her job after she voiced opposition to allowing biological males to compete against females in women&#8217;s sports.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/burned-at-the-stake-lax-coach-at-uber-liberal-oberlin-college-targeted-over-trans-athlete-stance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Russell</a>, 56, says the environment at Oberlin has become so hostile that she&#8217;s uncomfortable showing up to work, National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oberlin-womens-lacrosse-coach-refusing-to-return-to-campus-amid-backlash-over-her-opposition-to-men-in-womens-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> this week. She was previously demoted and targeted for her stance on transgender athletes, which was posted on a personal social media account.
“I have not gone into the office Monday or Tuesday, so my guess is they will be firing me shortly,” said Russell, who took time off Friday and has still not returned to work.
This summer, Russell made her treatment from Oberlin College public with a group called Independent Women&#8217;s Forum, outlining a series of disciplinary hearings and a bizarre team meeting where Russell was effectively made to listen to her own players shame her for her stance, and outline what they don&#8217;t like about her personally and professionally.
One of the players can be heard seemingly targeting Russell for her race, telling the coach she can’t just work to advance “white feminism.” Others suggested her views had an unacceptable “impact” on the school, which has a high “LGBTQ+ population.” Recalling the meeting, Russell said she felt &#8220;burned at the stake&#8221; and teared up as she expressed that she felt personally attacked &#8220;by these kids that I love.&#8221;
After Oberlin received attention for its treatment of Russell, the administration reportedly removed her from her coaching position and demoted her to “employee wellness project manager.”
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The school&#8217;s media relations department has said that Russell&#8217;s demotion is warranted for “her breach of trust rather than any views she has expressed,&#8221; National Review noted. Russell, feeling uneasy about the team meeting, secretly taped the event. Some of the recordings were included in the IWF&#8217;s video.
“This breach of trust — not her posts, feelings, or beliefs about trans athletes — is why she has been removed from her coaching duties,” the Oberlin spokeswoman said.
In response, Russell has highlighted what she describes as the college&#8217;s retaliatory treatment of her, prompting Russell to release the recordings.
“I’m at a loss anymore for what they’re doing,” she said of the college. “I’m not transphobic or transgressive or unsafe. This is about protecting women’s rights. This is about protecting women’s private spaces. I really don’t understand where the Me-Too movement is, what happened to it?”
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Next month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> voters may effectively legalize all abortion, at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Ballot-Initiatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a legal analysis on Thursday declaring that the proposed <a href="https://www.ohiosos.gov/globalassets/ballotboard/2023/the-right-to-reproductive-freedom-with-protections-for-health-and-safety.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">constitutional amendment</a> on abortion would give greater rights to abortion than even the Supreme Court’s overturned Roe v. Wade ruling.
“[T]he Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in Ohio’s history,” stated the analysis. “That new test includes definitions and other terms that likewise make it harder for any law covering ‘reproductive decisions’ to survive.”
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There is no more serious exercise of power than when the sovereign people exercise their power to directly enact a statute or a constitutional provision.
As the chief legal officer for the people of Ohio, today I published a legal analysis of the effects of Issues One and Two.
&mdash; Attorney General Dave Yost (@DaveYostOH) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveYostOH/status/1710041807583600950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The attorney general explained that the amendment would limit the state from “directly or indirectly” burdening or discriminating against the pregnant mother or regulating for reasons other than advancing the pregnant mother’s health, thereby nullifying existing laws that regulate based on the interest in fetal life. The amendment would also require the state to prove it abides by “widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care” rather than its own medical judgment.
Yost predicted the amendment’s passage would mean the likely demise of the state’s pre-viability limits on abortion; ban on abortions after 20 weeks and post-viability; ban on discriminatory abortions, i.e. those based on the unborn child’s sex or disability; requirement that abortionists kill the unborn child by injecting a heart-stopping drug prior to engaging in dilation and evacuation, i.e. dismemberment, and dilation and extraction, i.e. partial-birth, abortions; requirement that the mother undergo a 24-hour waiting period and receive informed consent prior to an abortion.
Yost also determined that the amendment presented a threat to the viability of Ohio’s regulations on abortion pills and ban on taxpayer-funded abortions.
The proposed amendment didn’t specify an age limit on its scope of authority — using the term “individual” rather than “woman” — meaning, said Yost, that minors could be afforded a right to abortion without parental consent contrary to current Ohio law. The attorney general couldn’t say with certainty whether this language choice would then enable minors to obtain gender transition procedures without parental involvement.
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“It would certainly be too much to say that under Issue 1 all treatments for gender dysphoria would be mandated at the minor individual&#8217;s discretion and without parental involvement,” said Yost. “This is a developing area of the law nationally, and all that could be said with certainty is that [the amendment], if passed, would impact the analysis of any future law.”
Yost also stated that doctors would have the final say on whether post-viability abortions could occur, regardless of state law, should the doctor determine that the pregnancy presents a threat to the mother’s health. The amendment doesn’t define “health.” Yost said the lack of a definition means that court precedent defines the term, citing cases in which “health” included a woman’s mental health, existing number of children, and maternal age.
“[The amendment] gives sole discretion to the physician in deciding if the law applies, with no requirement for a second opinion or objective criteria for evaluating the physician’s professional judgment,” stated the analysis.
In a <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/October-2023/Attorney-General-Yost-Provides-Legal-Analysis-of-S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, Yost explained that the legal analysis was issued to “ensure a meaningful and accurate public discourse,” not render a judgment on policy.
“Too often, the rhetoric will become inflamed and inaccurate, with contradictory statements made about what the proposals would do. If history is any guide, the passions will run high but the amount of quality information will likely be low,” said Yost in a <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Ballot-Initiatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.

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More than 100 black faith and community leaders released an <a href="https://chooselifeohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ohio-Faith-Leaders-Letter-Updated.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> on Tuesday urging <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohioans</a> to vote against an upcoming ballot measure that would place a right to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> into the state constitution. 
In November, voters in Ohio will vote on Issue 1, which would enshrine abortion into the state constitution. The effort is backed by the Ohio Democratic Party, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, and Ohio Women&#8217;s Alliance. 
Pro-life groups, like <a href="https://protectwomenohio.com/2023/10/more-than-100-black-faith-and-community-leaders-speak-out-against-issue-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Protect Women Ohio</a>, have campaigned against the effort to protect abortion, warning that it would push forward the movement to have no limits on abortion in the state. 
“This is not a party line vote, nor is Issue 1 a Republican or Democrat issue. This is a moral issue and for the Black community in particular, it is a life-or-death matter. Only 13 percent of Ohio’s population is Black, yet 48 percent of abortions in our state are performed on Black women – a tragic and difficult reality that our community cannot ignore,” the open letter from the black leaders said. 
“[Issue 1] is more extreme than Roe v. Wade, and it will allow for painful, late-term abortions through all nine months of pregnancy – even after an unborn baby can feel pain. It will permit our children to undergo abortions without parents knowing. And it will continue to rob generations of Black women and men of the insurmountable joy of parenthood,&#8221; the letter added. 
Pastor Jeff Haygood, of Living Word Church in Columbus, signed on to the letter and told The Daily Wire in an interview that the issue was a moral question rather than a political one. Haygood said that abortion was dangerous because it allowed people to pick and choose who gets to be born. 
“So when we start playing God and deciding who’s worthy to be born, who’s worthy to live, I think that’s extremely dangerous,” he said. “Nobody has the right to take anyone else&#8217;s life or to prevent someone from coming into this world and living.”
He said that supporting unborn life should be an opportunity for unity among Christians, but said that some pastors were scared to speak out if their congregants voted “for people who champion abortion.” 
“We’re married to the Lord but we’re cheating with the Democrats,” Haygood said. “I believe that you speak up in courage because you are an oracle of God, you are a mouthpiece for the Lord himself. Nobody is going to like everything I say, I just want to make sure God likes what I say.”
Both Haygood and the letter referenced the racist origins of Planned Parenthood and the eugenic purpose of abortion, which targeted black communities. 
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Voters in a special election in Ohio earlier this year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-voters-reject-proposal-seeking-to-make-it-harder-to-add-abortion-rights-to-state-constitution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> a Republican-backed effort which would have made it more difficult to amend the state’s constitution, meaning it would have been more difficult for abortion to be added to the state constitution. 
Pro-life ballot initiatives have struggled to gain support, even in red states, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as the Left has poured millions into backing abortion in places like Ohio, Kansas, and Kentucky. Haygood said the vote in November would be a big moment for the state moving forward and a good opportunity for Ohioans to stand for life. 
“This issue is going to be a watershed moment for the state of Ohio one way or another. I hope it is a moment that Ohioans rise to the occasion, take a stand for life, and move forward accordingly. If it’s not, we create a culture of death,” he said.

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More than 1,000 children have been reported missing in Ohio this year in what officials have described as an “extraordinary surge” in disappearing minors. The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12560607/Mystery-nearly-50-children-missing-Cleveland-September-ONE-THOUSAND-vanished-far-year-alarming-trend-thats-left-Ohio-cops-baffled.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majority</a> of the 1,072 children reported missing in the state this year have safely returned home, but officials, parents, and community leaders are concerned about the disturbing rise in reports.
In September alone, more than 45 kids have been reported missing in the Cleveland-Akron area, adding to the 35 missing children reported in August, according to <a href="https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/more-than-45-children-have-gone-missing-in-northeast-ohio-this-month">News 5 Cleveland</a>. Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy — who is also president of Cleveland Missing, a group dedicated to finding missing children — warned in May about the increase in missing children, saying that he worried some of the missing kids have been victimized by human trafficking or gang activity. 
“For some reason, in 2023, we’ve seen a lot more than we normally see, which is troubling in part because we don’t know what’s going on with some of these kids — whether they’re being trafficked or whether they’re involved in gang activity or drugs,” Majoy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/dozens-kids-vanish-cleveland-area-police-probe-alarming-trend">told</a> Fox News. 
While many of the children reported missing in recent weeks have been found safe, some still have not been seen or heard from. Keshaun Williams, 15, has been missing for more than 90 days as volunteers for Cleveland Missing continue to canvass the area where Williams was last seen. Camryn Golias, 17; Teonnah Thompkins, 17; Maurice Hamrick, 14; Honesty Howell, 16; Elijah Hill, 16; and 14-year-old Gideon Hefner were all <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/missingkids?page=6">reported missing</a> within days of each other and haven’t been seen for a week or longer. 
“There’s just not enough police officers in the streets to do this as law enforcement,” Majoy told 5 News Cleveland. “The public is our greatest asset. We can’t do this without the public.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said the data on missing minors is often inconsistent and unreliable as Cleveland police have admitted to being slow to update reports. Yost added that the state government has to “rely on our local partners that we don’t control.” 
“I am fearful of all kinds of things that fall through the cracks that include missing children,” the attorney general said. “I rely on the tenacity of a worried parent more than I do a harried bureaucrat whose job it is to put data into a computer.”
Last year, Ohio reported more than double the number of missing children as states with similar populations, such as Michigan and North Carolina, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12560607/Mystery-nearly-50-children-missing-Cleveland-September-ONE-THOUSAND-vanished-far-year-alarming-trend-thats-left-Ohio-cops-baffled.html">reported</a>. In 2022, 425 children were reported missing in Michigan, 470 minors disappeared in North Carolina, and 1,455 children were reported missing in Ohio. 
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“We have so many missing children, we want to prevent this from happening, so we need to buckle down,” said mother of four Breana Brown, who started an organization to boost support and awareness for missing children. “This is not a matter we should take lightly, not at all.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-union-president-says-auto-workers-feel-abandoned-by-the-democratic-party-as-union-criticizes-bidens-ev-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Auto Workers</a> announced a strike against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford</a>, General Motors, and Stellantis, as the union demands higher wages and “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/auto-uaw-workers-strike-gm-ford-stellantis-7ce3ca9d94b911250d07556b7af376c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped working</a> as picketing began outside a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan; a GM assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio. The strike comes after weeks of negotiations between the union and leadership at the automakers. 
“We didn’t want to be here. We want a fair agreement. We want fair economic and social justice for our members. That’s what this is all about. And it’s a shame,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/live-blog/uaw-strike-ford-general-motors-stellantis-live-updates-rcna105134" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Shawn Fain, president of the auto workers union. 
The strike is currently only targeted at three factories as the UAW pushes for a 36% pay bump over a four-year period for workers. Ford and GM said they could do 20% and Stellantis put forth a 17.5% increase over four years, according to the Associated Press. 
Other demands by the union are a 32-hour work week with pay for 40 hours, pensions for new employees, and inflation-based pay bumps. 
Prior to the strike, GM outlined that, in addition to the 20% pay increase over four years, the company would add “inflation protection,” increase its contributions to retirement health care savings by 25%, and increase vacation time. GM CEO Mary Barra <a href="https://www.gmnegotiations2023.com/public/us/en/negotiations/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> the offer as a “compelling and unprecedented economic package.” 
President Joe Biden, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/uaw-strike-likely-detroit-automakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted</a> that a strike would not take place, will reportedly discuss the standoff sometime on Friday. 
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not worried about a strike until it happens. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to happen,” Biden said on Labor Day. 
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of Job Creators Network, slammed Biden in a statement after the strike, saying that the president was in part responsible for the strike.
&#8220;President Biden is partly responsible for the economically damaging UAW strike because Bidenflation has caused declining real wages and living standards for ordinary workers, resulting in UAW taking this drastic action to swing the wage pendulum in the other direction. Biden&#8217;s pro-union rhetoric, including calling himself the most pro-union president in history, has also contributed to the UAW overplaying its hand with ridiculous compensation demands that threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers, thousands of small businesses that service the big three automakers, and even the automakers themselves,&#8221; Ortiz said.
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Ford said that a strike “could have wide-ranging consequences for our business and the economy. It also impacts the very 57,000 UAW-Ford workers we are trying to reward with this contract.”
Stellantis, who had about 5,800 employees in Ohio stop work making the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator, said it was “disappointed” by the strike. 
&#8220;We are extremely disappointed by the UAW leadership’s refusal to engage in a responsible manner to reach a fair agreement in the best interest of our employees, their families and our customers,&#8221; a statement from Stellantis said. &#8220;We immediately put the Company in contingency mode and will take all the appropriate structural decisions to protect our North American operations and the Company,” the company added.

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