To ring in the new year on Tuesday, January 2, five members of the Columbus School Board passed a New Year’s resolution: to destroy the tradition of free speech at school board meetings. The long-standing practice of open public comments...
29 July 2000
If you’re trying to make sense out of recent Dispatch reporting on racial profiling by the Columbus Police Department (CPD), forget it. The Dispatch coverage suggests that since 28% of the traffic tickets issued in 1999 were...
10 May 2000
Now, it's Al Gore, crime fighter, outlining his plans in a recent speech in
Atlanta. The reportedly erstwhile dope smoker from Tennessee fears that the
Texan who's so coy about his past relationship with cocaine has the edge on
the crime...
03 May 2000
Maybe Elian Gonzalez will have achieved a miracle after all, alerting
mainstream America to the fact that the Bill of Rights have disappeared,
restrictions on the role of the military in domestic affairs have been
thrown overboard, and all...
05 April 2000
Across the country, many gays are smarting after a hefty slab of
California's voters took the opportunity last month to say "no, absolutely
not" to the notion of gay marriage. But the dismay is tempered by other gays
asking, "Why did we...
01 April 2000
“Yeah, they got us listed as subversive. We expect a police helicopter to follow the march,” James Moss, President of Police Officers for Equal Rights (POER) assured me as we lined up to march to the Stand Up For Justice Rally. At first I...
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