Politics
In 2025 Columbus was #1 for the number of homeless deaths in the state of Ohio.
The number of homeless deaths was twice that of the Columbus murder rate. The city is quickly catching up to the rest of the nation as poverty has become America’s 4th leading cause of death.
The elected leaders in Columbus City Hall appear determined to maintain that #1 ranking for 2026 by ignoring homelessness. Their time and energy is focused on building luxury apartments and using your tax dollars to support for-profit Women’s Volleyball.
January for Columbus homeless:
14 homeless deaths for January 2026.
13 male and 1 female.
8 White and 7 African American / Black
Manner of death: 3 homicide, 7 accidents, and 4 natural causes
This article first appeared on Substack
You might have heard that there’s a group of people collecting signatures to end (abolish) property taxes in Ohio.
Today, Governor Mike DeWine (a Republican) tried to explain how bad that would be for our state.
If we abolish property taxes, Ohio would need to find other ways to bring in revenue for water departments, sewer departments, street repair, and schools — so other taxes would shoot way up.
This Tuesday, January 27, the Ohio Senate Energy Committee will hear testimony on Senate Bill 294.
A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.
Strive Capital, a firm founded and controlled by Vivek Ramaswamy that recently relocated from Ohio to Texas, closed a deal last week to acquire Semler Scientific, a midsize manufacturer of FDA-approved diagnostic devices used by physicians to assess cardiac disease.
A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.
Strive Capital, a firm founded and controlled by Vivek Ramaswamy that recently relocated from Ohio to Texas, closed a deal last week to acquire Semler Scientific, a midsize manufacturer of FDA-approved diagnostic devices used by physicians to assess cardiac disease.
Environmental advocates and Ohioans converged in Columbus on Monday to call out the environmental havoc that extending lease terms to frack Ohio’s state parks and public lands will cause Ohio’s air, water, soils, biodiversity—and future generations.
Save Ohio Parks; Freshwater Accountability Project; Buckeye Environmental Network; and Third Act Ohio were among environmental groups speaking to Oil and Gas Land Management Commissioners directly for the first time allowed them in three years about the myriad of dangers that await the state as it expands natural gas fracking under Ohio’s state parks and public lands.
They had a lot to say.
Topics included:
Civil War? It is necessary for the citizens to confront the government, but now, we can expect the government to escalate. This is uncharted territory but encouraging and necessary. The idea of Americans in uniform shooting at other Americans in uniform is now a possibility.
Occupy Democrats (and verified elsewhere)
BREAKING: Governor Tim Walz preps the National Guard to EVICT Trump's goons from Minnesota after an ICE agent killed a woman on camera in Minneapolis.
This is the kind of leadership that the moment demands!
"From here on, I have a very simple message. We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough," Walz announced.
"There's nothing more important than Minnesotans' safety," he continued. "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary."
This article first appeared on Substack
I have spent most of my adult life working at the intersection of food, health, and public policy. I did not come to this work through ideology. I came to it through lived experience, long before I ever held a policy title.
My mother reversed severe, debilitating Crohn’s disease decades ago after being advised to undergo radical intestinal surgery. Doctors told her there were no other options. She refused to accept that verdict and changed what she ate. Through a whole food, plant-based approach, she regained her health. That decision reshaped our family’s relationship to food and planted the seed for my life’s work.