K.M. Kowalski
@kmkowalski.bsky.social
Intrepid and resilient journalist and lawyer based in Ohio, reporting on energy, climate, science and policy. Posting and commenting solely in a personal capacity.
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Why doesn’t Ohio provide the same assistance 30 other states do to help people appeal denials of healthcare coverage?
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Why doesn’t Ohio provide the same assistance 30 other states do to help people appeal denials of healthcare coverage?
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Editorial from @nature.com, shared by @drrobertbullard.bsky.social:
Editorial: World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age - Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #COP30
World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age
Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Others must now help to find a way forward.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Editorial from @nature.com, shared by @drrobertbullard.bsky.social:
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“The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emissions,” she said. “You can make a pretty immediate impact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emissions,” she said. “You can make a pretty immediate impact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Muskingum Township trustee concerned gas and oil waste threatens drinking water near Marietta. bit.ly/47UjFL4
Commissioner insists injection wells pose no risk to drinking water when "properly permitted."
There's the rub...
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Commissioner insists injection wells pose no risk to drinking water when "properly permitted."
There's the rub...
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Muskingum Township trustee presents injection well resolution to commissioners
Concerns about injection wells in Washington County were raised again during the public segment of the weekly Washington County Commission meeting Thursday. These concerns ranged from the potential im...
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Muskingum Township trustee concerned gas and oil waste threatens drinking water near Marietta. bit.ly/47UjFL4
Commissioner insists injection wells pose no risk to drinking water when "properly permitted."
There's the rub...
@maxfilby.dispatch.com @signalohio.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social
Commissioner insists injection wells pose no risk to drinking water when "properly permitted."
There's the rub...
@maxfilby.dispatch.com @signalohio.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social
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These men are once again espousing a culture of death: Patients who are sick don’t have the luxury of shopping around for cancer care or their heart procedures.
#ACA
#ACA
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
These men are once again espousing a culture of death: Patients who are sick don’t have the luxury of shopping around for cancer care or their heart procedures.
#ACA
#ACA
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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
As restrictions on renewable energy proliferate across the country, residents in one Ohio county are pushing back.
@canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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This Ohio county banned wind and solar. Now, residents are pushing…
Richland County forbade large-scale renewable energy in most townships. Next May, voters will have a chance to reject the rules in a first-of-its-kind…
www.canarymedia.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As restrictions on renewable energy proliferate across the country, residents in one Ohio county are pushing back.
@canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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White students shouted racial slurs and carried a confederate flag leading up to Homecoming at a Georgia school
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest
Black students were suspended from their high school for planning a protest after another group of students came to school waving a Confederate flag. Last week, a group of students at Coosa Hi…
thehill.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
White students shouted racial slurs and carried a confederate flag leading up to Homecoming at a Georgia school
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
No one plans to be sick, but it happens.
Many hard-working people are a sickness away from financial ruin.
That’s why healthcare cannot be just a source of profit.
That’s where the ACA comes in. It’s worth defending!
No one plans to be sick, but it happens.
Many hard-working people are a sickness away from financial ruin.
That’s why healthcare cannot be just a source of profit.
That’s where the ACA comes in. It’s worth defending!
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
No one plans to be sick, but it happens.
Many hard-working people are a sickness away from financial ruin.
That’s why healthcare cannot be just a source of profit.
That’s where the ACA comes in. It’s worth defending!
No one plans to be sick, but it happens.
Many hard-working people are a sickness away from financial ruin.
That’s why healthcare cannot be just a source of profit.
That’s where the ACA comes in. It’s worth defending!
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Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:
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I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
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Let’s just be honest. Trump wouldn’t be acting this way - using all the power he has to suppress the Epstein files - if this wasn’t the biggest scandal in presidential history.
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Let’s just be honest. Trump wouldn’t be acting this way - using all the power he has to suppress the Epstein files - if this wasn’t the biggest scandal in presidential history.
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Commentary: Child care can be free and universal. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
Child care can be free and universal • Ohio Capital Journal
New Mexico is now expanding its free, high-quality child care program so that all families can access it. Families will save an average of $12,000 per year with this program. It’s the first of its…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Commentary: Child care can be free and universal. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
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The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to schools in the University of California system as part of a campaign to impose policy changes on elite colleges
University of California Faculty Win Block on Trump Defunding
The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to the University of California as part of a nationwide pressure campaign to impose a raft of policy changes on elite colleges.
bloom.bg
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to schools in the University of California system as part of a campaign to impose policy changes on elite colleges
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The Leonids produces some of the fastest meteors each year, at 44 miles per second, with bright, long tails. The shower reaches its peaks Sunday night into Monday morning, or Nov. 16 to 17.
The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.
The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.
How to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak
The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.
nyti.ms
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The Leonids produces some of the fastest meteors each year, at 44 miles per second, with bright, long tails. The shower reaches its peaks Sunday night into Monday morning, or Nov. 16 to 17.
The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.
The moon is far from full this weekend, which could mean good fireball viewing for night sky watchers.
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The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue. President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have pushed for increased oil and gas extraction, logging, and mining ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/10/r...
A state public lands commissioner grapples with shifting federal policies • Ohio Capital Journal
The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Trump administration has proposed significantly shifting management of the nation’s public lands toward producing more revenue. President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have pushed for increased oil and gas extraction, logging, and mining ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/10/r...
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Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
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Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Sadly, this is true.
During 47’s first term, he tried to take away my daughter’s right to healthcare insurance without discrimination while she had cancer. McCain’s no note stopped that.
But few of 47’s followers in Congress will stand up for others now.
During 47’s first term, he tried to take away my daughter’s right to healthcare insurance without discrimination while she had cancer. McCain’s no note stopped that.
But few of 47’s followers in Congress will stand up for others now.
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sadly, this is true.
During 47’s first term, he tried to take away my daughter’s right to healthcare insurance without discrimination while she had cancer. McCain’s no note stopped that.
But few of 47’s followers in Congress will stand up for others now.
During 47’s first term, he tried to take away my daughter’s right to healthcare insurance without discrimination while she had cancer. McCain’s no note stopped that.
But few of 47’s followers in Congress will stand up for others now.
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.