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Tuesday, December 30, 2pm

Attorney James M. Branum of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild (NLGMLTF.org) and the Oklahoma Objector Community (OKObjector.org) will be teaching a 2-hour live webinar on the topic of Illegal Orders Under U.S. Military Law. Veterans For Peace.  

Dec 27 & 28, Noon–4 p.m. at the Ohio History Center.
Dec. 27, 6–9 p.m. at the William H. Thomas Art Gallery.
Dec. 29, 2 p.m. at the Millenium Community School.
Dec. 30, 5–7 p.m. at the All People Arts Gallery.

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Join us for the citywide Kwanzaa celebration where tradition meets creativity! This year’s program features an array of hands-on crafts and captivating performances, designed to honor and celebrate the rich heritage of Kwanzaa.

Traffic stops are one of the most common points of contact between the public and law enforcement. They are also one of the most misunderstood.

In Ohio OVI investigations, confusion is not accidental. Most people do not know what they are legally required to do during a stop, what is optional, or how standardized field sobriety tests are actually supposed to work. That lack of clarity shifts power entirely to the roadside officer, often without the driver realizing it.

The OVI Pocket Guide was created to address that imbalance through transparency, not advocacy.

Why Traffic Stop Confusion Matters

During an OVI stop, decisions are made quickly and under stress. Drivers are expected to comply, interpret instructions, and perform unfamiliar tasks, all while being observed and judged.

Most people assume that everything they are asked to do is mandatory. It is not.

Others assume that field sobriety tests are scientific measurements of impairment. They are not.

Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts.

Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that scrapped a Biden-era regulation raising the minimum wage for employees of private companies with federal contracts. Some 327,300 workers had benefited from Biden’s measure, which produced an average wage increase of $5,228 per year. With Trump’s reversal of policy, they became ripe for pay cuts of up to 25 percent.

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Friday, December 26, 8:30pm
Natalie's, 945 King Ave, Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43212

Comedian, filmmaker and Columbus native Travis Irvine comes home for the holidays to present his annual Christmas comedy show featuring an eclectic cast of comedians, characters, carols and more!

Food & Bar: Our full food and drink menu will be available before and during the show.

It seems like forever ago when Americans were inundated by the daily news with the chaos in the Trump administration’s empowering Elon Must and his DOGE, Department of Governmental Efficiency, to slash and burn their way through federal agencies and federal workforce. Almost a year later, it’s becoming possible to get an approximate accounting of the real savings, if any, that resulted from all the sound and fury. Indisputably, despite the failure of the program to actually save taxpayers much money under its stated mission, the pain it caused is real and lingers, especially in situations like the almost complete defunding of the US Agency for International Development (AID).

The Times crunched some numbers, as they have been trying to do throughout this reign of terror. It still seems impossible to come up with a real, bottom line number for what amount DOGE and Musk really saved, partially because so many of their claims were completely false or exaggerated. Many times his young, inexperienced techies had no clue how to understand the contracts, whether they were let or not, and how many dollars they represented.

Here’s a sampling of what the Times team found:

This article first appeared on Substack

I live in Columbus, Ohio, one of several cities that has been terrorized by ICE raids in recent months. It’s been tough to get into the Christmas spirit while our neighbors live in fear of masked goons jumping them in the Kroger parking lot.