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This article first appeared in the Buckeye Flame
New data places Ohio among states with the highest number of anti-LGBTQ+ incidents in the country in 2025.
GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, released a report on Tuesday tracking anti-LGBTQ incidents in 2025 from the ALERT Desk, GLAAD’s Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker.
We have two upcoming Volunteer Work Days at the Linden Tree Nursery. We will be holding two working shifts each day for up to 50 people per 2-hour shift.
We plan to do pot filling in February and seedling planting in March.
Please register or have your group register for a time slot. You can register for one or all of them! In the case of inclement weather, we have two alternative dates listed and will notify on our events webpage and email in the case of rescheduling.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis plays some really really long rock songs.
Listen live at 11pm Friday, January 30 and streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
History rarely turns on arguments. It turns on moments people cannot unsee.
A photograph. A short video. A few seconds that settle in the mind and refuse to leave. These are the moments when debate stops and something heavier takes its place. Not opinion, but
recognition.
The killing of Alex Pretti during an encounter with ICE agents appears to be one of those moments.
The images circulating do not feel chaotic. They do not feel unclear. They do not show panic, aggression, or a scene spinning out of control. What they show is restraint on one side and lethal force on the other. That imbalance is immediately visible, and it is why the images carry so much weight.
This article is about why certain moments, moments like this, cut through the noise while others fade. It is about why discipline, restraint, and dignity have always carried more power than outrage ever could.
What the Moment Demands
Street encounters are not remembered for what was said. They are remembered for how people stood, or sat, or knelt.
The equal time provisions under decades of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions have largely been eroded and haphazardly enforced, if all. Ostensibly, provisions still exist on the books as statute and via FCC regulations. “Under section 315, if a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, it shall provide an equal opportunity to all other legally qualified candidates for that office.”
Just like every other major corporation that is flourishing in financial success, Ginther and this City Council will continue to ignore independent reports that the hundreds of millions of dollars handed out in tax abatements and TIF’s are counterproductive to the educational and social economic needs of Columbus school children and those who rely on social services. Two tax abatements are included on tonight’s City Council agenda.
Core5 Columbus SW Building 1 & 2 LLC are owned by the 180-year-old Kajima Corporation’s U.S. division Kajima USA Inc. “Kajima Corp provides civil engineering and project management for multiple industries. It works in multiple phases, from planning and development to maintenance and renovation. The company constructs skyscrapers, power plants, office buildings, and other large structures.” The Kajima Corporation has a current market cap of $19 billion and 2025 net income of $1.1 billion.
This Tuesday, January 27, the Ohio Senate Energy Committee will hear testimony on Senate Bill 294.
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An unprecedented amount of our taxpayer dollars gets funneled to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to carry out Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. Congress must act.
These rogue agencies have a long history of abuse, violence, and human rights violations – from separation of families to shutting out asylum seekers to raids in our communities. The events of 2020 have only exacerbated matters. CBP agents have been deployed against Black Lives Matter protesters, and horrific accounts of abuse, inadequate COVID-19 precautions, and deaths are being reported in detention centers nationwide. This must stop: Send a message to Congress to divest from ICE and CBP now.
Two Ohio State students were arrested on January 20 for protesting the presence of the Department of Homeland “Security” (DHS) on Ohio State’s campus. Good for them. Reporting suggests that DHS representatives exited early from a career fair, in response to the protest; if so, then these hero students have accomplished what Ohio State President Ted Carter refused to do: removing the regime’s unwelcome paramilitary force from our campus.