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MASON, Ohio -- A lesbian couple says a community recreation center's refusal to sell them a family pass because they aren't married is discriminatory. Heather Scott, 33, and Carrie Scott, 40, applied for the family pass for themselves and Heather Scott's three children who live with them and were told they don't meet the city's definition of a married couple. "We're no different than anyone else," said Carrie Scott, Heather's partner and the children's stepmother since the women's civil union ceremony in Vermont in 2002. "Our family is the same as the one across the street. It's a little different...

VOTE “NO” ON ISSUE 1 Ohioans have the opportunity to vote against the expansion of Governor Taft’s transforming economic development plan, Issue 1, also known as the Third Frontier. A frontier, according to Webster, is a new field for exploitive or developmental activity. The first frontier was taming the wilderness, the second, the industrial frontier according to some, or the exploration of outer space according to others. For central planners to put the transformation of our economy on par with those frontiers is fair warning that Issue 1 is a big deal. Proponents say it will create jobs (as though...