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Breaking News: US Supreme Court breaks US Constitution and federal law, and misreads American history in striking down decades of varied approaches to affirmative action. The Court and its right-wing support are racist in their celebrations especially as they illogically label anti-racism as racism.
Update: as of June 28, the only signs on OSU’s off-campus administration in hiding building are for Smashburgers and Chicken Tenders. A security guard tells me that pizza is next. Not one word announced that OSU’s senior administration has relocated secretly to 15 E. 15th Avenue at North High St.
Late and unknowledgeable as always, Gov. DeWine and Ohio school administrators follow behind the US and the world in their sudden discovery of the much touted but little founded marketing term “the science of reading.” Lately, it promotes itself, literally, as SoR.
Saturday, July 1, 2023, 12:00 Noon
Ohio's state parks and public lands are under attack. The oil and gas industry has submitted its first nine applications to FRACK Ohio public land, including three applications to frack an incredible 281 parcels of Salt Fork State Park. Salt Fork is the largest state park in Ohio and widely considered the gem of our state park system. There is no way that surrounding this park with 16 frack pads to frack 281 parcels will leave this park unscathed.
Fracking is incompatible with hiking, camping, swimming, fishing, birdwatching, and any other activity people do in our state parks. Help us fight back!
Join the Rally to Save Salt Fork State Park at Shelter 1, near Camp Beach, at Salt Fork, 14755 Cadiz Rd, Lore City, OH 43755.
Learn how fracking affects climate, health, democracy and more, tell visitors to the park what is happening, and say NO to fracking our precious public lands.
Thursday, June 29, 6-8pm, All People’s Fresh Market, 945 Parsons Ave.
Join us for an evening of food, live music, and more! All are welcome; this event is free!
Community Development recognizes that wellness is both physical and spiritual. The opening of the Fresh Market is an effort to promote healthy living.
On Wednesday, June 28, workers at the 1085 W. 5th Ave. Starbucks store will be on an unfair labor practice strike to demand that Starbucks meet the partners at the bargaining table to negotiate a fair contract. The workers are also calling on the Company to end its attacks on LGBTQIA+ workers as part of its relentless union-busting campaign that includes threatening workers’ access to benefits and refusing to let partners put up pride decorations at dozens of stores across the country.
Quarry Trails is Central Ohio’s newest Metro Park, but it is also becoming the area’s latest mixed-use extravaganza. The initial reviews of the park are mixed (so to speak). But this is certain, some Metro Parks fans still want answers to how Quarry Trails – which was promised to be a world-class park – came to be.
Quarry Trails is a hybrid of sorts. A park with homes, condos, and retail. Some embrace a waterfall within walking distance from a spa, but others are critical, saying the entire property should have been made into a park.
One critic is certified naturalist Don Kloss, president of Central Ohio Nature and a Metro Parks volunteer. Kloss also has concerns about RAPID 5 (“Rivers and Parks Imagination Design”). The massive private and public “vision,” not a plan yet, to remake Central Ohio’s five major waterways: The Big Darby, the Scioto River, the Olentangy River, Alum Creek and the Big Walnut.
Kloss is convinced Quarry Trails is a prototype for RAPID 5. It is just off the west side of the Scioto River in Grandview. A test-run, he adds.
Wednesday, June 28 - 1pm
Ohio Statehouse
Now is the time for us to gather in unity with one clear message --
We as Ohioans say NO to Cop City.
We know what we need for safe communities, and this is not it.
Please wear red to support families impacted by police brutality and come with your knowledge of what we do need in the budget to make our communities safer.
For the past year the world has watched as activists and community members of Atlanta have fought against the proposed “Cop City,” and it seems officials in Ohio want to bring a similar training center to Central Ohio. Officials are looking to create a commission titled "The Joint Law Enforcement Training Center Study.”
I have always been interested in religion and its role in American society. My five siblings and I grew up in a religious household. Up until the time I was in third or fourth grade we lived right next door to Hilltop United Methodist Church. Even after moving, we were only one street over from the church, so we could hardly get out of going. We attended Sunday school, church, Vacation Bible School during the summers, and sang in the choir. We also had scripture and prayer before we went to school for several years until sports and school activities wreaked havoc with our schedules and made the logistics of those activities too difficult. If by some miracle any of us managed to skip church one Sunday, we knew that we would not be allowed to go anywhere during the rest of the week.
"Asteroid City" is undeniably the most Wes Andersony movie to date, with his vivid colors, meta-narrative, and signature cast of quirky characters. This being his 11th feature film, Anderson also wrote the screenplay, with credit to frequent collaborator Roman Coppola. Don't let the bright colors fool you; this film delves into the existential crisis experienced by his characters, both within and beyond the play titled "Asteroid City."
The film opens with a black-and-white 4x3 ratio, hosted by Bryan Cranston, taking us behind the scenes of the play "Asteroid City." It serves as a TV special documenting the life of playwright Conrad Earp (Edward Norton) and his work on the play. We also see the director, Schubert Green (Adrien Brody), managing to keep the production afloat.
It’s 1988! England and Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen), a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
Jean coaches the netball team, itself a riot of burgeoning teen emotion and conflict. She's quite middle class. She's still in touch with her family. Likewise, she does not always behave in a morally exemplary fashion. As news stories proliferate about the impact of Section 28. Tory ministers pontificating on moral decay, activists storming the House of Lords, Jean is hyper-aware of every glance and murmur in her direction. She makes bad decisions; but she's so unaware.
Given his public statements and his actions especially as mayor of Columbus, Ohio, I have been forced to ask a number of times: does Andy Ginther actually live in the city of Columbus? He does not know the physical, socio-cultural, economic, or political city. He is clueless about any identity, and profoundly ignorant of its largely undocumented and unwritten history.
His latest comments force me to ask: does he live in the United States? On Earth?