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On June 7, 2025, CNN will broadcast—on tape, from a live performance direct from Broadway--George Clooney’s homage to Edward R. Murrow, Good Night, and Good Luck, which is welcome news for audiences who are not able, or willing, to fork over the $900 plus fees for a decent orchestra seat to the stage version of Clooney’s 2005 docu-drama Good Night, and Good Luck.
For American progressives wallowing in a deep Trump funk, the callback to the integrity of Murrow and his gutsy take-down of Sen. Joseph McCarthy on the pioneering news magazine See It Now may offer hope that journalism can repeat its treasured origin story. The legend is imprinted in the famous illustration by Ben Shahn, Edward R. Murrow Slaying the Dragon of McCarthy, a depiction of the noble paladin killing the beast who threatened the realm. In the Clooney iteration, no one needs a playbill to read McCarthy as a stand-in for Donald Trump, but Murrow has no obvious successor ready to suit up in the new media ecosystem. Morrow and his like have gone the way of vacuum tubes and rabbit ears.
Dan-o Dougan and Dr. Bob Fitrakis start a series on planes, trains and automobiles playing a variety of songs about planes, including Sky Pilot, 8 Miles High, Aeroplane, and more!
Listen live at 11pm Friday, May 30 and June 6 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Monday at 2pm streaming June 2 and 9 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is proud to announce the publication of “Can You Handle the Truth? Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right- Relationships with the Earth and Each Other.”
It includes pieces written by Kai Huschke, Tish O’Dell, Terry Lodge, Michelle Beatty, Max Wilbert, Will Falk, Chad Nicholson, and Ben G. Price.
Ever since the ending of my 2023 campaign for mayor, I continue to be asked if I will run for mayor again in 2027. My reply has been, “In politics you never say never. I am currently in a wait-and-see mode. The election is two years away.”
As for Andy Ginther’s campaign claiming he will run again in 2027, I will say this:
Saturday May 31st, 2025 @10 AM - 12 PM
Linden Tree Nursery, 1142 East 17th Avenue Columbus, OH, 43211
To prepare for another successful year of tree giveaways, help us plant trees in pots at our Linden tree nursery location! We will need help planting trees, organizing rows, marking pots, placing stakes, and getting the nursery ready for the growing season. Bring your friends! We need all the help we can get to prepare 3,000 trees for our fall giveaway. Green Columbus would not be able to give away free trees each year without the help of our wonderful volunteers. Come out for the morning and enjoy the outdoors with us! The link to sign up is below.
US House Reconciles Legislation That Handicaps Renewable Energy Projects
The Republican controlled House of Representatives passed reconciliation legislation that effectively will eliminate nearly every renewable energy incentive that is currently in place.
The bill will end the 30 percent residential solar investment tax credit by the end of this year and the applicability of residential solar leases for tax credits.
The Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for commercial and utility scale projects would go away completely for any project not placed in service by the end of 2028.
There are a couple of poison pill provisions put into this legislation that are designed to prevent any renewable energy projects from moving forward.
Wednesday, May 28, 12:30-1:30pm
John W. Bricker Federal Building, 200 N. High St.
All hell is breaking loose in the country and our members of Congress are missing, especially Bernie Moreno!
We will not stand down. Let’s hold him accountable to the people and taxpayers of Ohio. His office is at 200 N. High St. with lots of public visibility! We demand to be seen and heard, just like his rich donors.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
This event will be repeated each week until Wednesday, June 25.
Hosted by OPAL [Ohio Progressive Action Leaders].
In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even before that. Referring to peace for Ukraine before a gathering in Council Bluffs, Iowa in July 2023, he insisted: “I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t.’ Absolutely, I can. Absolutely I can.”
Trump has vowed to terminate other wars, as well. Promising to end the war in Gaza and “bring peace back to the Middle East,” Trump assured audiences that “we will return the world to peace.” Indeed, in his January 20, 2025 inaugural address, he proclaimed that “we will measure our success . . . by the wars we end.” And “my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker.”
Original Sin How About Original Spin? WOW!!! There are no words- Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson you had one job!! In a time when 64% of Americans report having "not very much" or "no trust at all" in the media according to the Pew Research Center. You two so-called “journalists” and the media outlets that pay you, put the cherry on the sundae. Collectively you all chose to sit on critical information about the unraveling of American democracy until it could be packaged, bound, and sold at Barnes & Noble.