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Tune in/Stream GrassRoot Ohio radio FRIDAY, Feb 23, 5pm EST at 91.9FM Columbus-streams WGRN.org & SUNDAY, Feb 25, 2pm at 92.7/98.3FM-streams WCRSFM.org.

Carolyn Harding with Judge Terri Jamison, candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court.

Thursday, February 22nd at 7pm at Enarson Classroom Building Room 206 or online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting 

Discussing next steps for building support for Palestine at OSU.

The genocide continues while organizers locally are trying to build necessary support for the movement. In particular, OSU Divest and SJP OSU are running a campaign to call on OSU to divest from Israeli Apartheid, and Ohio Youth for Climate Justice, CORS, and many individuals are resisting attempts by Zionists and OSU to crack down on them and they need your help!

We welcome anyone who wants to organize for Palestine on campus, including members of other student groups, to join us to discuss next steps for organizing.

The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) will meet Monday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m.-but a Franklin County judge may stay its decisions to award oil and gas bids to frack Salt Fork State Park and Valley Run and Zepernick wildlife areas.

EarthJustice and Ohio Environmental Council announced yesterday they filed an emergency stay to suspend and delay OGLMC orders to frack, pending a decision on the appeal by Save Ohio Parks, Buckeye Environmental Network, and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers of OGLMC's Nov. 15 decision to approve nominations of these areas for fracking.

A decision by Court of Common Pleas Judge Jaiza Page on the emergency stay was requested by Friday, Feb. 25.

When it comes to the last boomtown in the Midwest, certain Columbus neighborhoods make for unusual destinations for future residents to call home. And at first glance, the Far South Side near the Great Southern Shopping Plaza doesn’t seem like a prime location for Intel and Honda employees.

But according to a South Side activist, the future of the Far South Side could be radically altered if City officials and developers get their way, which as many already know, is a sure thing for all parts of Columbus.

“Tony Celebrezze [Deputy Director for the Department of Building and Zoning Services in Columbus], in a conversation, told me that they want to – and this is a verbatim quote – they want to make the Far South corridor the next Short North or the next off-campus, as far as the way they look,” says Bruce Miller, president of the Scioto Southland Civic Association. Miller also sits on the Far South Columbus Area Commission, a City-affiliated and strictly advisory body for the community when it comes to City-approved development.

DATES AND HOURS
(subject to change)

EARLY VOTING HOURS

Weeks of:
February 21st - 23rd,

February 26th – March 1st,

and March 4th – 8th

(Weekdays Only – Mon through Fri)

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday, March 9th

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Week Four of Voting

(March 11th – March 17th)

7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Monday, March 11th)

7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Tuesday, March 12th – Last Day to Request Absentee Ballots)

7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Wednesday, March 13th through Friday, March 15th)

8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Saturday, March 16th)

1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Sunday, March 17th)

Tuesday, March 19 – Election Day

NO VOTING MONDAY BEFORE ELECTION DAY

IN-PERSON ABSENTEE VOTING

Franklin County Board of Elections
1700 Morse Rd,
Columbus, Ohio 43229

Shane McCrae is the son of a white woman and a black man. In order to save Shane from the indignity and evils of being reared by his father, his mother’s parents kidnapped him when the boy was three years old. Surprisingly–but perhaps not given she was abused by her father as a child–his mother did nothing to intervene as her white supremacist parents took him to Texas and reared them as their own son. Yet his grandparents must have been afraid his mother would at some point try to stop them or find the boy, for they threatened to leave the country and prevent her from ever seeing Shane again if she did. It is a miracle that as racist as his grandparents were, McCrae never feels ashamed of his blackness. Indeed, he holds onto it, possibly because it is the one thing he knows is his.

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.