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I have received and read a daily printed newspaper since I was learning to read more than 70 years ago. I grew up with the print edition of the Sunday New York Times, and the daily morning Pittsburgh Post Gazette and afternoon Pittsburgh Press. When I moved to Evanston, Illinois for college, there was the daily delivered Chicago Sun Times as well as the New York Times. And the equivalent in Toronto (Globe and Mail, Star), Dallas (Morning News, Times Herald), and San Antonio (Express-News).
And then we moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2004. Delivery was not a major issue until the right-wing-Heritage Foundation-supported and influenced, anti-editing and ideological USA Today/Gannett purchased the failing Columbus Dispatch from the Wolfe family. The Wolfes bled it into the red in part by never distinguishing between their own private development interests and owning the city’s only major daily newspaper.
Every Secret Isn’t a Secret
Richardson hadn’t interviewed one person who knew who Smooth really was in life. To the men he was just a “cool brother man” and to the women he showed Smooth’s picture too, he was “That’s that fine Smooth baby.” They all said they didn’t know he was the judge’s son until they read it in the Call & Post newspaper and saw his picture and his face on the local news stations.
The last lead Richardson had was from the bartender at the Colony Club on Long Street. She said that she had seen Smooth on the day of his death and that Smooth called a cab about one-thirty pm to pick him up at two pm. She knew this because he asked her to use the bar's phone to call it for him, so he didn’t have to pay a dime in the phone booth. She didn’t know where the cab was taking Smooth because he said he would tell them when they picked him up. She also remembered that Smooth had eaten lunch with a sister named Sheila that day around noon but that she was gone before the cab picked Smooth up at the bar. She said they often had lunch together there, at least once a week.
With fracking, and proposed CCS and Carbon Capture Use and Storage projects, Ohio is becoming a sacrifice zone for the fossil fuel industry.
As we close out 2023, many Ohioans are still unaware of the negative effects fracking under our state parks and public lands will have on our health, the
environment and the planet from the oil and gas industry's greenhouse and methane gas emissions, as well as toxic fracking wastewater.
Science tells us that fresh water purity and supply; air quality; destruction of plant, animal and insect habitats; as well as increased
illness for people who live near parks and public lands to be fracked are likely.
Attached are two Save Ohio Parks documents. One offers examples of comments and one with more information.
Saturday, December 23 - 8pm
Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St. Columbus OH 43202
Ace of Cups is hosting a benefit show to raise funding for Columbus based mutual aid groups.
MASS Ohio (Mutual Aid Street Solidarity) and Heer To Serve
These organizations help provide harm reduction supplies to the community as well as resources to those experiencing houselessness.
The show will feature local friends in
The Mer-tini's
Trachete
Adios Beaches
Forever Strange
$10 suggested donation/pay what you can
All ages
We will provide direct links to donate to these organizations, their wishlists, and will have a spot to donate supplies.
The supplies they are most in need of are
Winter gear (especially socks)
Rain gear
Hand warmers
Propane tanks
Volunteers from Heer To Serve will be on site to offer extra information on how to further help and get involved.
The Senate and the White House are narrowing in on a bad deal that could codify Trump-era policies: Mass deportations, family detention, and family separation. That’s in addition to removing crucial transparency and congressional oversight of billion-dollar weapons sales.
Distressingly, the Senate could vote on this deal as soon as this week. These extremist anti-immigrant demands are straight out of Trump and Stephen Miller’s playbook — a laundry list of hateful policies we spent YEARS fighting against.
For several years now the winter solstice event at Serpent Mound, where candles or luminaries were placed so to outline the Native American effigy mound, has been canceled and this year will be no different.
Serpent Mound is within a privte park in Peebles, Ohio, but under control of the Ohio History Connection (OHC), and it was the OHC which made the decision in 2017 to end the event at the suggestion of Native Americans. Most notably the Shawnee, who claim ancestral stewardship of the effigy mound, which is the largest on the planet. Fascinating is how one of the Serpent’s coils aligns with the winter solstice sunrise while its head aligns with the summer solstice sunset.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 7:00 PM
Attention all military veterans: You are invited to a social gathering this Wednesday with other veterans. Following a meet and greet, we will open the conversation to our thoughts about current U.S. military policies. As former service members, many of us have concerns about how our forces are being. This gathering will include an introduction to the national Veterans for Peace group. We will also discuss if there is interest in setting up regular gatherings for Central Ohio veterans.
The location: the Hilltop Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 511 South Hague Ave.
Contact: Sandy Bolzenius, sbolzenius72@gmail.com.
The Open Shelter still has a few spots available next week for volunteers to help us get ready to make Christmas bright for those we serve; homeless and marginally housed men, women, and families.
We still could use volunteers on Wednesday, December 20th from 12-approximately 4p to help families with picking out gifts and with clean-up.
If you would like to sign up or have any questions, feel free to call Harry at 614-222-2885 or 614-562-2169. Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Monday, December 18 5pm ET
Zoom
NOTE NEW LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqfuygpjIiHtc20uIOxdeqYRiAicjSLWUc
Featuring:
Fighting Digital Addiction
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras
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Ohio Assaults:
Abortion & Wind Power
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Diablo Disaster
Has CPUC Approval
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Assange Latest
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Cop City
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Year-End Fundraiser
Young Men Die
Detective Richardson stood in the front lobby of We Get You There cab company. The secretary, Mrs. Hanson, had offered him a chair, however, he preferred to stand rather than sit on the dirty seats. There was a large blackboard against the right wall with names of six cab drivers and their cab numbers. It appeared that only four of the drivers had checked in today. On the large brown oak desk was a picture of Mrs. Hanson and three children, two boys and a girl. Nice looking kids. Richardson flipped through his notebook, underlining a few notes with his pencil. His investigation of Booker T. had brought him to this place.
Booker T. was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Went to private schools, honor roll, basketball star, and ladies’ man. Graduated top ten of his high school class. Against his mother’s wishes, he joined the Army and ended up in Vietnam. Found out quickly that he was just another “darkie” in the Army to both the white and Black officers. Nobody cared about his mother being a prominent judge in hick town Columbus, Ohio.