League of Women Voters of Bowling Green
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Join us TONIGHT at 6:30 PM at the Wood County District Public Library!
Together, we’ll explore what effective, sustainable civic engagement looks like and how each of us can help shape a more just and compassionate future. We'll also be collecting canned goods to donate to the Brown Bag Project.
Together, we’ll explore what effective, sustainable civic engagement looks like and how each of us can help shape a more just and compassionate future. We'll also be collecting canned goods to donate to the Brown Bag Project.
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Join us TONIGHT at 6:30 PM at the Wood County District Public Library!
Together, we’ll explore what effective, sustainable civic engagement looks like and how each of us can help shape a more just and compassionate future. We'll also be collecting canned goods to donate to the Brown Bag Project.
Together, we’ll explore what effective, sustainable civic engagement looks like and how each of us can help shape a more just and compassionate future. We'll also be collecting canned goods to donate to the Brown Bag Project.
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While we are relieved that the government has reopened and critical services are being restored, this record-length shutdown came at a steep cost.
Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Statement from Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters of the United States, on the Reopening of the Federal Government | League of Women Voters
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November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
While we are relieved that the government has reopened and critical services are being restored, this record-length shutdown came at a steep cost.
Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Face 2 Face Meet the Candidates is today at the Veterans Building in Bowling Green City Park.
🕝 Schedule:
1:30 PM – Doors open for informal conversations with the candidates
2:00 PM – Program begins
Unlike traditional forums, voters engage with local candidates in a round-table format.
🕝 Schedule:
1:30 PM – Doors open for informal conversations with the candidates
2:00 PM – Program begins
Unlike traditional forums, voters engage with local candidates in a round-table format.
October 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Face 2 Face Meet the Candidates is today at the Veterans Building in Bowling Green City Park.
🕝 Schedule:
1:30 PM – Doors open for informal conversations with the candidates
2:00 PM – Program begins
Unlike traditional forums, voters engage with local candidates in a round-table format.
🕝 Schedule:
1:30 PM – Doors open for informal conversations with the candidates
2:00 PM – Program begins
Unlike traditional forums, voters engage with local candidates in a round-table format.
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Go here to tell the Ohio Senate: vote NO on veto override ➡️
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/votenoonvetooverride ⬅️
Tell your state senator to vote NO on this veto override because voters and communities know what's best.
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/votenoonvetooverride ⬅️
Tell your state senator to vote NO on this veto override because voters and communities know what's best.
Protect local communities: Tell Ohio lawmakers to vote NO on veto override
Tell our Ohio state Senators and House members to reject the veto overrides on budget provisions that would prevent local communities from solving their own problems by taking funding and local decisi...
lwvohio.salsalabs.org
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Go here to tell the Ohio Senate: vote NO on veto override ➡️
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/votenoonvetooverride ⬅️
Tell your state senator to vote NO on this veto override because voters and communities know what's best.
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/votenoonvetooverride ⬅️
Tell your state senator to vote NO on this veto override because voters and communities know what's best.
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🛑 Congress is threatening Medicaid cuts that could strip health coverage from millions.
🗣️ Tell your representatives:Protect Medicaid. Protect our health.
📲 Take action now: www.lwv.org/take-action/...
#ProtectMedicaid #LWVIndy #HealthJustice #TakeAction
🗣️ Tell your representatives:Protect Medicaid. Protect our health.
📲 Take action now: www.lwv.org/take-action/...
#ProtectMedicaid #LWVIndy #HealthJustice #TakeAction
June 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🛑 Congress is threatening Medicaid cuts that could strip health coverage from millions.
🗣️ Tell your representatives:Protect Medicaid. Protect our health.
📲 Take action now: www.lwv.org/take-action/...
#ProtectMedicaid #LWVIndy #HealthJustice #TakeAction
🗣️ Tell your representatives:Protect Medicaid. Protect our health.
📲 Take action now: www.lwv.org/take-action/...
#ProtectMedicaid #LWVIndy #HealthJustice #TakeAction
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The Ohio Senate’s version of the state’s two-year budget would reduce the number of students who would be eligible to receive the Governor’s Merit Scholarship and it would come with strings attached.
Ohio Senate budget alters the Governor’s Merit Scholarship, ties funds to Senate Bill 1 compliance • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Senate’s version of the state’s two-year budget would reduce the number of students who would be eligible to receive the Governor’s Merit Scholarship and it would come with strings attached.
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Ohio Senate’s version of the state’s two-year budget would reduce the number of students who would be eligible to receive the Governor’s Merit Scholarship and it would come with strings attached.
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Ohio lawmakers are once again ambushing the citizen-initiative process. SB 153 is about power -- and who gets to wield it. The answer must remain: the people.
We oppose this attack on direct democracy.
www.cleveland.com/ne...
We oppose this attack on direct democracy.
www.cleveland.com/ne...
“They think of themselves as kings”: Ohio Republicans target citizen-led ballot initiatives again - cleveland.com
Senate Bill 153 imposes new burdensome requirements on signature gatherers, including badges that critics call a "scarlet letter," in latest move to obstruct direct democracy and block citizens from putting a check on "ridiculous runaway lawmakers"
www.cleveland.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ohio lawmakers are once again ambushing the citizen-initiative process. SB 153 is about power -- and who gets to wield it. The answer must remain: the people.
We oppose this attack on direct democracy.
www.cleveland.com/ne...
We oppose this attack on direct democracy.
www.cleveland.com/ne...
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At our core, nonpartisanship is not just a policy — it’s a bedrock principle that defines who we are at the League of Women Voters.
Staying True to Nonpartisanship in a Divisive Political Climate | League of Women Voters
At our core, nonpartisanship is not just a policy — it’s a bedrock principle that defines who we are at the League of Women Voters. As a membership organization committed to empowering voters and…
www.lwv.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At our core, nonpartisanship is not just a policy — it’s a bedrock principle that defines who we are at the League of Women Voters.
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This administration is blatantly ignoring court orders and straight-up sending people to countries they’ve never been to. Incredibly disgraceful, embarrassing, and wrong.
US must keep control of migrants sent to South Sudan in case removals were unlawful, judge rules
A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.
apnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This administration is blatantly ignoring court orders and straight-up sending people to countries they’ve never been to. Incredibly disgraceful, embarrassing, and wrong.
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SB 153 and HB 233 are bad twin bills in the Ohio Statehouse that would be very bad for voters, elections, and election officials.
Email Ohio lawmakers here and call their offices to tell them to oppose these bills:
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohios...
Email Ohio lawmakers here and call their offices to tell them to oppose these bills:
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohios...
May 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
SB 153 and HB 233 are bad twin bills in the Ohio Statehouse that would be very bad for voters, elections, and election officials.
Email Ohio lawmakers here and call their offices to tell them to oppose these bills:
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohios...
Email Ohio lawmakers here and call their offices to tell them to oppose these bills:
lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohios...
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Join us next Weds at noon at the Ohio Statehouse for a powerful day of advocacy to demand fair funding for rural schools across Ohio
📣 Rally: noon
🏛️ Legislative Visits: 1:00
📍 Ohio Statehouse, Veteran’s Plaza: East side of Statehouse, facing 3rd St.
📲 Register: bit.ly/StatehouseRallyForRuralSchools
📣 Rally: noon
🏛️ Legislative Visits: 1:00
📍 Ohio Statehouse, Veteran’s Plaza: East side of Statehouse, facing 3rd St.
📲 Register: bit.ly/StatehouseRallyForRuralSchools
May 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Join us next Weds at noon at the Ohio Statehouse for a powerful day of advocacy to demand fair funding for rural schools across Ohio
📣 Rally: noon
🏛️ Legislative Visits: 1:00
📍 Ohio Statehouse, Veteran’s Plaza: East side of Statehouse, facing 3rd St.
📲 Register: bit.ly/StatehouseRallyForRuralSchools
📣 Rally: noon
🏛️ Legislative Visits: 1:00
📍 Ohio Statehouse, Veteran’s Plaza: East side of Statehouse, facing 3rd St.
📲 Register: bit.ly/StatehouseRallyForRuralSchools
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Letter to Editor
The SAVE Act wouldn't save anything. Instead, it threatens right to vote
This bill is not about safeguarding our elections. They’re already safe.
Please contact your senators and demand that they oppose the SAVE Act
Barbara Ague, Cuyahoga Falls
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
The SAVE Act wouldn't save anything. Instead, it threatens right to vote
This bill is not about safeguarding our elections. They’re already safe.
Please contact your senators and demand that they oppose the SAVE Act
Barbara Ague, Cuyahoga Falls
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
The SAVE Act wouldn't save anything. Instead, it threatens right to vote | Letter
A Beacon Journal reader writes about how the SAVE Act would interfere with voters' rights.
www.beaconjournal.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Letter to Editor
The SAVE Act wouldn't save anything. Instead, it threatens right to vote
This bill is not about safeguarding our elections. They’re already safe.
Please contact your senators and demand that they oppose the SAVE Act
Barbara Ague, Cuyahoga Falls
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
The SAVE Act wouldn't save anything. Instead, it threatens right to vote
This bill is not about safeguarding our elections. They’re already safe.
Please contact your senators and demand that they oppose the SAVE Act
Barbara Ague, Cuyahoga Falls
www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
See you tomorrow!
April 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
See you tomorrow!
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All Americans — no matter who you voted for in 2024 — need to come together, stand united, and fight back to save our democracy. We cannot afford to fail the generations to come. Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
April 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
All Americans — no matter who you voted for in 2024 — need to come together, stand united, and fight back to save our democracy. We cannot afford to fail the generations to come. Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
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65 million women will be disenfranchised by this bill. CALL your members of Congress now!
April 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
65 million women will be disenfranchised by this bill. CALL your members of Congress now!
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Taking our country backward is part of the plan. This is wrong and cannot be tolerated. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come
The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Taking our country backward is part of the plan. This is wrong and cannot be tolerated. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Students donning black graduation robes held a mock funeral for the death of higher education after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that will overhaul Ohio’s public universities. They said DeWine's signature was heartbreaking
Ohio college students, educators disappointed in Gov. DeWine for signing higher ed overhaul • Ohio Capital Journal
Students donning black graduation robes held a mock funeral for the death of higher education after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that will overhaul Ohio’s public universities. They…
buff.ly
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Students donning black graduation robes held a mock funeral for the death of higher education after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that will overhaul Ohio’s public universities. They said DeWine's signature was heartbreaking
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"Ohio has an opportunity to turn the page. Let’s not waste another dollar, another year, or another ounce of moral credibility on a ritual we mistake for justice, when what we really need is the courage to evolve."
#EndTheDeathPenalty
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
#EndTheDeathPenalty
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Dave Yost’s death penalty push isn’t about justice. It’s about 2026: Leila Atassi
Ohio should abandon the death penalty—not just because it’s morally flawed, but because it’s broken, costly, and being used as a political tool by those, like Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, more int...
www.cleveland.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Ohio has an opportunity to turn the page. Let’s not waste another dollar, another year, or another ounce of moral credibility on a ritual we mistake for justice, when what we really need is the courage to evolve."
#EndTheDeathPenalty
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
#EndTheDeathPenalty
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
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It had been considered settled law: If a person is born in the U.S. that baby is a citizen. But now Ohio AG Dave Yost and others are in court defending Trump's order claiming "birthright citizenship" doesn't extend to children of the undocumented
Ohio AG questions birthright citizenship. His argument is 'just silly,' immigration lawyer says • Ohio Capital Journal
It had been considered settled law: If a person is born in the U.S. that baby is a U.S. citizen. But now Ohio AG Dave Yost and others are in court defending President Trump's order claiming…
buff.ly
April 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It had been considered settled law: If a person is born in the U.S. that baby is a citizen. But now Ohio AG Dave Yost and others are in court defending Trump's order claiming "birthright citizenship" doesn't extend to children of the undocumented
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The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) filed a lawsuit with coalition partners against Trump for his unlawful 3/25 executive order on voting.
Read LWVUS's statement here: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Read the lawsuit here: www.lwv.org/sites/defaul...
Read LWVUS's statement here: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Read the lawsuit here: www.lwv.org/sites/defaul...
April 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) filed a lawsuit with coalition partners against Trump for his unlawful 3/25 executive order on voting.
Read LWVUS's statement here: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Read the lawsuit here: www.lwv.org/sites/defaul...
Read LWVUS's statement here: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
Read the lawsuit here: www.lwv.org/sites/defaul...
LWV BG will be available to register voters before and after the event. Go to tinyurl.com/dist5townhall to submit your questions/concerns in advance or if you are unable to attend. We'll make sure Rep. Bob Latta receives them!
March 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
LWV BG will be available to register voters before and after the event. Go to tinyurl.com/dist5townhall to submit your questions/concerns in advance or if you are unable to attend. We'll make sure Rep. Bob Latta receives them!
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🗳Election officials have faced increasing threats and harassment simply for doing their jobs. SB 82 is a common-sense, nonpartisan step to protect them just as they protect our elections.
📲Tell your Ohio Senator you stand with election workers: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohioselectionworkers
📲Tell your Ohio Senator you stand with election workers: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohioselectionworkers
Protect Ohio's Election Workers
Tell the Ohio Senate General Government Committee: Protect Ohio's Election Workers
lwvohio.salsalabs.org
March 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🗳Election officials have faced increasing threats and harassment simply for doing their jobs. SB 82 is a common-sense, nonpartisan step to protect them just as they protect our elections.
📲Tell your Ohio Senator you stand with election workers: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohioselectionworkers
📲Tell your Ohio Senator you stand with election workers: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/protectohioselectionworkers