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Citizens Digest is a non-partisan news research and analysis service for citizens who want to make up their own minds, but need access to rigorous, accurate, and impartial human-reported information on topics of importance in Ohio, the nation, and the worl
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Here’s a 3rd taste of what’s coming November 28, 2025! - Citizens Digest
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Artificial Intelligence Who Is Building Our Brainiac? By Mark Harris The future of AI is uncertain. What is certain is that it needs to work for us. In the first episode of Supe...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Knowledge, Wisdom, and Artificial Intelligence What We Know Now and What We Need to Decide By Ruth McLatchie The great 19th century English preacher Charles Spurgeon famously said, “Wisdom is the righ...
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Here’s a taste of what’s coming November 28! - Citizens Digest
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Artificial Intelligence Information Storage and Use Through History By Mark Harris Throughout history, knowledge has been stored in different ways. Before the advent ofwriting, ...
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Here’s a third taste of what’s coming October 24, 2025! - Citizens Digest
The Outrage Machine Future Possibilities for Transforming the Machine By Mike Gonzalez In the third article of our October issue, Mike unveils perspectives for future consensus, including possible con...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Here’s a second taste of what’s coming October 24! - Citizens Digest
The Outrage Machine Microtargeting, Microaggressions, and the Breakdown of Civic Engagement By Mark Harris Microtargeting is a modern business practice that is as prevalent in the corporate world as i...
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The Outrage Machine The Evolution of Echo Chambers By Mike Gonzalez October 3, 2025 In the first article of our October issue, Mike addresses the evolution of the echo chambers that drive outrage.  He...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The Power of the People - Citizens Digest
The People Have Always Had The Power By Mark Harris The anatomy of a State is comprised of three major components that bleed into one another. People and Territory are the most obvious components of a...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Political Violence Could Be Our Future By Mark Harris The power of the people can never be fully taken away. However, the power of the people can be subverted, and if that subversion is not resisted, ...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Current Expressions of Power of the People in the United States of America By Ruth McLatchie September 12, 2025 This preview is in the form of a pop quiz, questions to be addressed in the full article...
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Current Expressions of Power of the People in the United States of America By Ruth McLatchie September 12, 2025 This preview is in the form of a pop quiz, questions to be addressed in the full article...
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Current Expressions of Power of the People in the United States of America By Ruth McLatchie September 12, 2025 This preview is in the form of a pop quiz, questions to be addressed in the full article...
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Term Limits - Citizens Digest
August, 2025 Term Limits in History By Ruth McLatchie Term limits are an ancient idea that sprung from the civil societies of Athens, Sparta, and Rome.  The democracy of ancient Athens, whose king at ...
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What the Research Says about Term Limits By Ruth McLatchie According to Professor Anthony Fowler of the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, the body of theoretical and empiri...
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August 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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History of Term Limits By Ruth McLatchie Term limits are an ancient idea that sprung from the democracies of Athens and Sparta and the Roman Republic.  In the beginning of the United States Constituti...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The Story of Taxation By Ruth McLatchie Hint: You can find the answers to the pop quiz from the preview embedded in this article. Taxation has been around almost as long as death, the other certainty....
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July 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Here’s a 3rd taste of what’s coming July 25! - Citizens Digest
Taxes: Your Efforts, Our Future By Donald Wiggins The Tax Poem Attributed to Charley Reese, former Orlando Sentinel and King Features columnist, deceased May, 2013 Tax his land,Tax his bed,Tax the tab...
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July 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Here’s a first taste of what’s coming July 25! - Citizens Digest
Taxes The Story of Taxation By Ruth McLatchie July 4, 2025 In this preview, we’re giving you a pop quiz to celebrate Independence Day!  If you don’t already know the answers, you’ll find them in the f...
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July 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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June 2025 Citizens Digest Newsletter Is Here!
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Apportionment: The Method and Math Behind Representation - Citizens Digest
June, 2025 What is apportionment, how has it changed over time, and why is it important? By Ruth McLatchie “Apportionment is the process of dividing up a fixed quantity or resource among different ind...
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Here’s a third taste of what’s coming June 27! - Citizens Digest
Apportionment Re-imagined By Donald Wiggins, Jr.  One hundred sixty six years ago, Charles Dickens challenged the human mind in, “A Tale of Two Cities” with the opening line “It was the best of times,...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Apportionment Gerrymandering By Mark D. Harris June 13, 2025 Gerrymandering has been a long-lived issue for the United States and Ohio alike. With origins that stemmed from the earliest days of our el...
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Apportionment – The Math Behind Representation What is apportionment, how has it changed over time, and why is it important? By Ruth McLatchieJune 6, 2025 “Apportionment is the process of dividing up ...
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The Politics of Blame - Citizens Digest
May 23, 2025 Blame – How Did We Get Here? By Ruth McLatchie In The Beginning Nearly every ancient culture has its own creation story that starts out with perfection.  But before long comes some kind o...
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Here’s a third taste of what’s coming May 23! - Citizens Digest
The Politics of Blame Why and How To Get Blame Out of Politics  By William M. Taggart IV, Guest Contributor May 16, 2023 William M. Taggart IV – A professional engineer for over 30 years, Taggart work...
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Here’s another taste of what’s coming May 23, 2025! - Citizens Digest
The Politics of Blame Leviathan and the Virus By Mark Harris May 9, 2025 Thomas Hobbes makes a metaphor of the state and the biblical beast in his great work of early modern political philosophy, Levi...
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