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...factory farms, used as grim evidence of the brutality that can take place. But how do animal-rights crusaders actually get those videos? Through people like "Pete," a 20-something undercover animal-rights investigator who, armed with a hidden camera, surreptitiously got a job in 2006 at an Ohio hog farm. The resulting footage - captured with the help of a group called the Humane Farming Association - and eventual courtroom drama that followed are featured in the HBO documentary Death on a Factory Farm, airing March 16. "Pete" refuses to reveal his real identity, saying only that he has legally changed...
Kentuckians have come to expect outrageous statements from Bunning. When the Ohio River flooded parts of Louisville in 1997, Bunning, then a state representatitve from Northern Kentucky, blamed the devastation on the city's failure to raise its flood walls, only to have to apologize when the storm-weary city leaders pointed out that the walls had been up for days. In 2004, he claimed, without any support, that an opponent's staffer had beaten his wife and he at a political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket...
...That's all E.W. Scripps Co.'s Cincinnati, Ohio-based executives could mumble last week in closing Colorado's oldest company, the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News...
...politics. You sit there and say, 'Joe the Plumber overcharged me, Joe the Plumber broke this.' That makes national news ... I've spoken to some of my plumbing buddies in town and no one really wants to touch me right now" - is deemed by to be the fault of Ohio officials because ... because ... wait, there is no because
...maintained a national call center for cancer patients struggling with their bills. In that time, more than 21,000 people have called in asking for help. Every story is different, but the contours of the problem tend to be depressingly similar: the 10-year-old leukemia patient in Ohio who, after three rounds of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, had almost exhausted the maximum $1.5 million lifetime benefit allowed under her father's employer-provided plan; the Connecticut grocery-store worker who put off the radiation treatments for her Stage 2 breast cancer because she had used...