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Suggestion to Ohio State University:
To pay for owing the former basketball coach $13 million for firing him with years remaining on his contract (and not waiting a few weeks until the season ends), sell the president’s house in Bexley. This is the most distant from campus presidential residence in the United States. Top Gun Carter can move into University Square South, near his office, across the street from the campus itself.
In so doing, OSU would follow the lead of the New School for Social Research in New York City, multiple campuses of the City University of New York, and others: all to meet university debt.
Follow the lead, Bucks.
Fourteenth largest city in the US, endlessly touted from New Albany—from which Columbus is actually governed--through Bexley to Westerville, Worthington, and Dublin, Ohio, all outside the city’s borders—to City Council, the “mayor’s” office, and the so-called media from the non-news, non-daily USA Today/Gannett outlet to NPR’s WO-SU, Fox, and Sinclair Broadcasting: Columbus, Ohio, is now a big city.
No one can find it.
Tuesday, February 20, 7-9pm
Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden Rd, Columbus
Join Jesse Powers and Jessie Alianiello for an evening of nourishing conversation and music!
7pm to 8pm Jessie Alianeillo will begin the evening hosting a discussion on Mindfulness
8pm to 9pm Jesse Powers will sing you spiritual lullabies to prepare you for your nighttime dreams!
Come and get cozy and connected with us!
NOTE: **Enter through the rear door**
BYOB
Bring food, order pizza, whatever you'd like!
We are hosting this event at the Presbyterian Church, so let's leave it the way we found it.
Suggested Donation: $10
Cash, Venmo, Paypal, Cashapp
If you don't have it, come anyway! We want you to be there!
Following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Cleveland Heights — Bless his heart. Somebody fire up the Facebook Live. The self-styled “Joe Arpaio of Ohio” is feeling left out of the immigrant demonization debate.
XENIA — It’s not every day that Greene County Prosecutor David Hayes gets to take money seized by the police from local criminal enterprises and put it towards good causes in the community.
When he does, however, he said he wants to make sure it ends up in the right hands.
Prosecutor Hayes was on-site at Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative on Monday for a tour and a check presentation to the local faith-based nonprofit, which recently opened the first treatment center of its kind in the world. Emerge is located at the former Greene County Career Center, at 2960 W. Enon Road in Xenia Township.
Of the approximately $60,000 in money seized by Greene County law enforcement in 2023, ten percent went to Emerge. Staff members were also on site to give the prosecutor a tour of the facility and the men's recovery housing area, which opened last summer and now houses dozens of men who are learning vocational skills to re-enter society in long-term recovery as productive members of the community.
Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.
Heather Phipps is being represented in court by civil rights attorney Walter Riley. She allegedly splashed washable red paint on Pelosi’s garage door last week. A few drops of the paint accidentally got on a policeman’s uniform. The Pelosis are claiming that the damage to their garage door exceeds $400, and thus Heather committed a felony. The drops of paint on the policeman’s uniform are being used to also charge her with battery. Meanwhile Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator for CODEPINK in the Bay Area, is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly leaving red handprints on the garage door. The washable paint was completely washed off by evening.
Monday, February 19, 2024, 4:30 PM
Cardboard signs, hot tea and handwarmers, safe community, and calls to action will be provided. This action will be led by progressive Palestinian and Jewish community members. All are welcome.
Location: Outside Senator Brown’s office, 200 N. High St.
For more information you can email to hello@barriertoentrypac.com.
Do I Want to Know
I was waiting anxiously for Jean to come home from school. Mr. Jimmy had beaten her home, and I was staying quiet in my room because I didn’t want to speak with him yet. Finally, she came bouncing in the room and I jumped up from the bed to greet her.
“Wait until you see what I found today!”
“Wait until I put my books down. Why you leave school early again?” Jean dropped her books on the dresser top and flopped down on her bed.
“I wasn’t feeling good.”
“You just didn’t want to take that English test. Stop lying.”
“If you already knew, why ask me? Look at what I found!”
“What you find?”
“A picture in Mr. Jimmy’s room.”
“What! No, you didn’t go into his room when he wasn’t home!” Jean jumped up from the bed.
“Keep your voice down, he’s home now. He left his door unlocked so I just went in and looked around and found this picture.”
I pulled out the picture from under my pillow and gave it to Jean, who looked at it for a few seconds, and then handed it back to me.
“It’s a picture of Mr. Jimmy when he wasn’t fat. So what?”
Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 6 PM
Thompson Park - 1189 Dennison Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
Stand with the family of Casey Goodson Jr. and demand an immediate retrial of Jason Meade.
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 6:00 PM
Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale
When Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade used deadly force against Casey Goodson, Jr., as he entered his home shortly after noon on December 4, 2020, Meade felt justified.
He told the first officer on the scene, Clinton Township Officer Terry Phillips, "He [Goodson] came out of his car, gun in his hand as he was going to the side door as I was pulling up.."
This week, during his murder trial, Meade amended his statement including new insight into his threat assesment. He testified, "I thought he was going to shoot me." He added, "An armed suspect like that, he could go into a home and take hostages, and barricade himself to ambush police officers.”
Ohio has no legislated laws, signed by a governor, that define the justifications that allow a law enforcement officer to use deadly force. Instead, we rely on one Ohio Supreme Court case, Ohio v. White, that relied on two US Supreme Court cases, Tennessee v. Garner, and Graham v. Connor, that relied on the 4th Amendment of the Constitution, which set the boundaries for legal search and seizure.