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City of Columbus officials are now doing what they should have done in early 2023 to prevent their repeated blunders and resulting harms concerning the Greyhound/Barons bus depot on North Wilson Road.
A March 1, 2024 email from city attorney Section Chief Steve Dunbar states: “Next week’s Greyhound hearing is being continued. City, Barons and Greyhound are doing a search for alternative sites. I’ll let you know as soon as we get a new date. It will be about sixty days out.”
If a new trial date is not set for another two months, it will be nearly a year that this bus terminal disaster began to play out.
Barons officials had reached out to city officials requesting assistance in early 2023 to find a new location for their bus terminal after they could not come to terms with COTA on renewing their lease at the West Spring Street COTA location. The city refused to help Barons find a suitable location.
Small mammals called fishers have reappeared in Ohio after being chased from the state by 19th-century hunters. The return of the fishers clears up an old mystery in Ohio archaeology.
One of the most spectacular ancient earthworks in Ohio is the animal effigy in Granville, west of Newark, which was ignominiously named “Alligator Mound” for reasons that remain mysterious and hilarious. Obviously, there were no alligators in ancient Ohio. My theory is that some young white child told her or his daddy that the mound looked like an alligator, the name stuck, and this became alligator baggage that the archaeological authorities still carry.
Tuesday, March 5, 7-10pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.
Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of each month at Club Diversity at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal get together to meet, hang out, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about the chapter.
Columbus Call to Action: Pack City Hall for Palestine! Ceasefire now!
Monday, March 4, 2024, 4:00 PM
For more than 4 months, we have been asking Columbus City council to pass a ceasefire resolution. Join us at this city council meeting to support a ceasefire resolution.
Location: 90 W. Broad St., Columbus. Bring your Ohio photo ID.
All day long - call city council members and ask for their support for a ceasefire resolution.
General number: 614-645-7380 and Stanley Gates, Director of Community Engagement: 614-645-3566 segates@columbus.gov. Ask for the office of these council members: Shannon Hardin (President), Rob Dorans (Pres. Pro Temp.), Nicholas Bankston, Lourdes Barroso Padilla, Nancy Day-Achauer, Shayla Favor, Melissa Green, Emmanual Remy, and Christopher Wyche.
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A Problem Even in Death
When Jimmy came home last night he went straight to his bedroom. He was bone-tired, mentally, and physically, and fell asleep, waking up this morning still in the clothes he wore yesterday.
Jimmy sipped his coffee as he watched Shelia washing the dishes. The girls acted strangely towards him this morning, and this concerned him, because although he expected this behavior from Jean, he was surprised that Sara ignored him and wouldn’t give him any eye contact. Instead, she mumbled hello and kept her eyes on her bowl of cereal when he sat down at the kitchen table.
Shelia seemed nervous. He watched her washing the same bowl for over a minute before rinsing the soap off. Shelia didn’t look at the dishes she washed, instead she looked out of the kitchen window. Jimmy cleared his throat a couple of times.
“Everything alright with you Shelia?”
“It’s all good. Why you ask?” Shelia put the last dish into the dishrack and turned to face Jimmy as she dried off her hands with the dishtowel.
“Just asking, you seem to be distracted. That’s all. And Sara was quiet this morning too.”
Poor and low-wage people will join Ohio Poor People’s Campaign Tri-Chairs Clair Hochstetler and David Guran, and Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Bishop Tony Minor, Imam Horsed Noah, and Yvonka Hall, among many others, for a mass assembly at the Ohio statehouse to launch a 40-week effort to mobilize poor and low-wage voters in Ohio, and demand legislators take immediate action to end the crisis of death by poverty in the United States.
During Saturday’s mass assembly, a powerful fusion coalition, including impacted people, poor and low-wage voters, faith leaders, and social justice advocates, gathered to declare their votes are demands for living wages, voting rights and other policies to combat poverty and save lives. As part of the assembly, poor and low-wage voters shared testimony of how poverty has impacted their lives and why politicians need to champion the issues that matter most to poor and low-wealth individuals.
Sunday, March 3rd, 8pm
The Comedy Roast Fundraiser to End Qualified Immunity has changed location! Join us at the LARGER Hilton Columbus/Polaris BALLROOM!
Hilton Columbus/Polaris, 8700 Lyra Dr, Columbus
$30 At The Door (Doors Open At 7pm)
Presented by The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity
The essence here revolves around using humor as a coping mechanism while engaging in serious discussions. The event blends laughter and fundraising, using a roast format to comically critique Yost, with a focus on his characters, policies, actions, mannerisms, and voice.
Sunday, March 3rd, 8pm
The Comedy Roast Fundraiser to End Qualified Immunity has changed location! Join us at the LARGER Hilton Columbus/Polaris BALLROOM!
Hilton Columbus/Polaris, 8700 Lyra Dr, Columbus
$30 At The Door (Doors Open At 7pm)
Presented by The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity
The essence here revolves around using humor as a coping mechanism while engaging in serious discussions. The event blends laughter and fundraising, using a roast format to comically critique Yost, with a focus on his characters, policies, actions, mannerisms, and voice.
Re/Descheduling – What It Is and Why It’s Important
It felt like a marathon, right? The two-year trek spanning 2021 to 2023, which led to passage of Ohio Issue 2 (the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol initiated statute), moved through many twists, turns, ups, and downs before arriving at a new age. No longer must we look over shoulders, hide our stuff, or whisper our canna-conversations. We’re free to be who we are … almost.
Federal law, the root of prohibition, remains a different matter. Despite Issue 2, if you find yourself in possession of cannabis on federal land (parks, courthouses, etc.), you are subject to federal penalties. They. Have. Not. Changed. And they are harsh. The War on Drugs, including cannabis, is not yet over. That two-year trek was a walk in the park compared to the last 50 years of prohibition.
Bruce Miller, a Far South Columbus Area commissioner, has caught the eye of City officials after he spoke out about future development plans for the Far South Side. Now he’s facing intimidation, something a Columbus resident should never be dealing with when it comes to simply wanting their neighborhood having a seat at the table.
Miller, a nurse, has alerted hundreds of South Side homeowners and business owners to the City’s new “Zone In Columbus” plan, which has designs on building condos and apartment buildings – twelve stories tall possibly – at the Great Southern Shopping Plaza. Also in the crosshairs is a nearby beloved drive-in theatre, and all of South High Street, for that matter, from State Route 104 to 270, including residential side streets.