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Monday, October 5 is your last chance to register to vote! 

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Early voting in Franklin County is at: 1700 Morse Rd, Columbus, Ohio 43229
Hours: (subject to change)

Week One - October 6 - 9

Weekdays Only - Tuesday through Friday - 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Week Two - October 12 – 16

Weekdays Only - Monday through Friday - 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

As is widely known by now, Columbus, Ohio, is developing a reputation within the art world for its museums, art galleries, theaters, dramatic performances, festivals, comedy venues and other creative artistic expressions. While it will never be a Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or even Santa Fe, New Mexico, Columbus, Ohio, is fast becoming one of the nation’s most talked about tourist destinations for art lovers. Outside of Chicago, Illinois, Columbus can make an argument for being the Midwest’s most talked about and perhaps frequented city by those with an affinity for all things art. 

Socrates South is a 200 MW gas combustion plant now operational to power the Meta Prometheus data center in New Albany, Ohio, the world's first 1 gigawatt (1000 MW) data center.

This gas "plant" is really 15 simple cycle turbines - the least efficient type -- and 15 reciprocating internal combustion engines -- like a gas car engine only the size of a house.

Socrates South is only the first major gas plant Meta has planned for its Prometheus data center. Two more called Socrates North (200 MW) and Socrates the Younger (250 MW) have also been approved.

On Tuesday, October 6, at 5 p.m., the Ohio Power Siting Board will hold a public hearing on a fourth gas plant for the Meta Prometheus data center called NEO Power Generation Facility -- the largest yet at 500 MW.

Saturday, October 3, 12-4pm
Honest Friend Brewing, 2112 S. High St., Columbus

Join us Saturday, October 3rd at @honestfriendbrewing for a Fall Makers Market and fundraiser to prepare for winter warming supplies for encampment outreach. Raffle, art fair, market, and baked goods. This year we have seen camp sizes triple to quadruple and we need your help to keep our neighbors warm and safe.
 

Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed, or FLOW, will host their first ever 5K race and family fun run/walk on October 4th.

The course takes runners and walkers through Liberty Park in Powell where they’ll see and learn about different stormwater management practices to reduce flooding and erosion, and keep pollution out of our watershed.

This event will spotlight Stormwater Awareness Week in Ohio (which is October 1 st through the 7th), in an effort to educate the public on how stormwater pollution affects our land, water, and farms, and what steps we can take to prevent it.

Proceeds from the race will benefit FLOW, allowing them to continue their conservation work in the lower Olentangy watershed, a roughly 150 square mile area that includes a 32-mile stretch of the river, plus nearly 400 miles of
tributaries.

You can choose the 5K or the 1.5-mile fun run. Participants can register at tinyurl.com/FLOW5K. All runners will receive a goodie bag with items from the race sponsors.

Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers, dressed up as a "neighborhood watch," have been scattered across neighborhoods in Worthington and Clintonville. The NAACP Columbus Branch 3177 condemns them.

This is nothing new. Flyers like these have been left at homes in Clintonville, Worthington, and across Central Ohio for years. The names on the paper change. The tactic does not.

The Klan wants attention. If they truly wish to be acknowledged, they should take off the hoods, show their faces, and stand in the daylight. Instead, they hide behind paper and anonymity. That is cowardice, and cowardice does not earn our attention.

Make no mistake: we too are Americans on guard. We will ensure that none of our members and none of our neighbors are intimidated in any way.

Without faces or names, the only people living in fear are the ones who left these flyers. We have nothing to fear. Their words are as empty as their threats.

As they move in the darkness of hate, we will stand together in the light. We call on all of Central Ohio to protect one another.

Thursday, October 1 from 6-8PM
Barrel & Bloom,2365 W Dublin-Granville Rd, Columbus, OH 43235

This is an important moment for democracy in Columbus and a vital step forward to building a better city. In order to get the word out to voters citywide, this campaign, like any other, seeks to raise funds to not only get out the vote, but to educate our neighbors on the importance of a fair local democracy. Come out and have fun with me and some of my favorite people!

Pachucos Taquería food truck will be available! Let's pass YES on Issue 8 so we all have a council member directly accountable to and elected by the people in our district.

Saul Williams’ 1997 song, Twice For The First Time simultaneously embodied the potential of El-P, and Mos Def in one individual. Twice for The First Time appeared from a compilation called Eargasms The Company Flow song from Eargasms I’m certain is the child of Ornette Coleman’s soundtrack of Naked Lunch. I say that without relistening to either song during the past decade. I say that with love of Charli XCX’s releasing Music, Fashion and Film during Charli’s Lollapalooza Weekend.

Culture can be cool if people care. Saul Williams understood the post-modern and the natural individual spiritual in a simple transcendence moment of speech. Saul Wiliams starred in the film Slam which was kinda like Electric Boogaloo and OZ at the Drexel Movies.

Twice For the First Time is easily one of the most important rap songs of the past 30 years. We can almost consider Kanye West and Slug as the realization of Twice For The First Time glow.

Twice For the First Time hasn’t been duplicated. Even by Saul Willams. Forgive the lack of poetic description in this line:

Wednesday September 30, from 5-7:30pm
87 E Innis Ave.

If you're a new or existing volunteer, come down for a fun meet and greet Wednesday September 30th at 87 E Innis Ave from 5-7:30pm. We will have snacks, drinks, music, and great conversations!

Can't wait to see ya!
You're valued, loved,and matter.

This article first appeared here

What’s happening right now with Columbus City Schools (CCS), the media, and the Columbus Education Association (teacher’s union) is exactly how the state of public schools perpetuates in Ohio’s largest district.

I posted a video last week sharing what was happening in Columbus City Schools (CCS) and called for “legacy media to try to do their jobs and report on real things that are affecting real people in Columbus, Ohio.”

I did an on-camera interview at the request of 10TV Wednesday, September 23 at 3pm outside of the 270 E. State Street CCS administration building. Two hours later, I attended the Columbus Education Association’s (CEA) press conference at the same location, and afterward, ABC6 and NBC4 also asked for my on-camera remarks, which I gladly provided.