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Save Ohio Parks is a group of volunteer grassroots citizens in Ohio concerned about fracking in our state parks, forests, wildlife areas, and other public lands. This year Gov. DeWine signed a law kickstarting fracking in our public lands. So far oil and gas companies have applied to frack two of our state parks (Salt Fork and Wolf Run), and two of our wildlife areas (Valley Run and Zepernick). Additional applications are submitted every week. Save Ohio Parks has formed to push back on this. Our public lands are supposed to be protected spaces for people and wildlife. They are not meant to be exploited by extractive industries. The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission is now taking public comments on these fracking applications:
Salt Fork State Park: bit.ly/nofracksaltfork
Sunday, July 9, 12noon
We are back with the second season of OTE Art Walk Sunday's in Olde Towne East! Visit 700bryden.com/ote-art-walk
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Sunday, Oct 15th 2023
Sunday, Nov 12th 2023
The OTE Art Walk is a monthly neighborhood event established by the creative community in collaboration with 700 Bryden. Each month our festival day takes place along Parsons Ave in Olde Towne East.
Join us this year for an EXPANDED Art Walk experience featuring food and drink, Land Grant beer, live music and live art, performances, 60+ local vendors, local businesses, food trucks, shopping & more!
One. Never hesitating to get her name into print or what passes for City communications, councilor Barroso de Padillo subsidizes five e-bike sellers (Beechwold Bicycles, Franklinton Cycle Works, Johnny Velo Bikes, Orbit City Bikes, Paradise Garage) with public dollar handouts to private citizens for discounts on e-bike purchase.
The subsidy to the bike stores amounts to the City spending $250,000 for 100-150 residents. The handouts go to any household with an income of less than $150,000, far out of line with housing and other social assistance. This is capitalist socialism.
Readers: do the simple division of public subsidy to private interests for yourselves. Does this make economic sense for the public?
No mention is made that unlike its peer cities, Columbus’ own safe bicycle lanes system remains dramatically incomplete and unmaintained. Snow removal trucks fill the bike lanes. In the Columbus Way, the lanes stop and start at the behest of private businesses.
Saturday, July 8, 6:30-11pm, 1710 Dorsetshire Rd.
We will be meeting in person at the home of Pat Marida, 1710 Dorsetshire Rd.
Everyone is welcome!
Live music! Hear the fabulous Free Press musicians.
Speakers will update us on aspects of the 9,198-page Ohio budget.
Bring along a chair; food and drink are welcome. We will have pizza, soup, iced tea, and coffee.
Rain or shine; party indoors or out.
Hosted by The Columbus Free Press.
Friday, July 7, 7pm; Saturday, July 8, 4pm and 7pm; Sunday, July 9, 4pm; Columbus Performing Arts Center [Van Fleet Theater], 549 Franklin Ave.
Join us for the 11th year at the Columbus Black Theatre Festival this July in Central Ohio, downtown Columbus. The three-day theatre festival of short one-act plays returns this year with the theme “The Right to Choose.”
Our readers have selected seven plays:
(1.): “Daidy or Daddy with an I,” by Louis DeVaughn Nelson and directed by Julie Whitney Scott.
(2.): “Cowboy Chuck,” by Robb Willoughby and directed by Stephen Woosley.
(3.): “The Flash,” by Jasmyn Green and directed by Jasmyn Green.
(4.): “Mrs. Dunn,” by Marj O’Neill-Butler and directed by Alan Tyson
(5.): “I’m Not Buying It,” by Vickie G. Hampton and directed by Ariel Wiles.
(6.): “Bed of Rose Thorns,” by Julie Whitney Scott and directed by Julie Whitney Scott.
(7.): “The Wedding Ceremony,” by Marjorie Conn and directed by Ariel Wiles.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Friday, July 7, 7pm; Saturday, July 8, 4pm and 7pm; Sunday, July 9, 4pm; Columbus Performing Arts Center [Van Fleet Theater], 549 Franklin Ave.
Join us for the 11th year at the Columbus Black Theatre Festival this July in Central Ohio, downtown Columbus. The three-day theatre festival of short one-act plays returns this year with the theme “The Right to Choose.”
Our readers have selected seven plays:
(1.): “Daidy or Daddy with an I,” by Louis DeVaughn Nelson and directed by Julie Whitney Scott.
(2.): “Cowboy Chuck,” by Robb Willoughby and directed by Stephen Woosley.
(3.): “The Flash,” by Jasmyn Green and directed by Jasmyn Green.
(4.): “Mrs. Dunn,” by Marj O’Neill-Butler and directed by Alan Tyson
(5.): “I’m Not Buying It,” by Vickie G. Hampton and directed by Ariel Wiles.
(6.): “Bed of Rose Thorns,” by Julie Whitney Scott and directed by Julie Whitney Scott.
(7.): “The Wedding Ceremony,” by Marjorie Conn and directed by Ariel Wiles.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Of no interest to anyone in City Hall, any of Columbus’ daily “media” outlets, and any of its Congressional representative except Sen. Sherrod Brown, the United States Postal Service in Columbus ranks as one of the three or four worst in the entire United States. They break the federal postal code daily. In so doing, they knowingly and purposefully violate the legal and civil rights of all persons affected. Both postmasters and “inspectors” who do no inspection lie to Brown’s office, their own regional and national coordinators, and residents who depend on regular postal service six days per week excepting legal holidays.
The Supreme Court struck a huge blow to the future of higher education in America.
SCOTUS has gutted affirmative action and stopped President Biden’s student debt relief plan in its tracks.
Higher education was meant to be the great equalizer in America, but thanks to rulings like these, our institutions will become more costly, more exclusive, and more out of touch with the general public.
The Supreme Court may be legislating from the bench when it comes to the future of higher education, but legislators have the power to make college accessible for all by passing the College for All Act.
The College for All Act of 2023 would address the growing issue of skyrocketing college tuition and student loan debt, make higher education accessible and affordable to all, and uplift students of all backgrounds.
Several major Columbus news media reported this past week that Greyhound buses are leaving their central location from downtown Columbus and are opening a new terminal at 845 North Wilson Road in the Hilltop neighborhood.
A June 27 Dispatch story stated, “Greyhound’s new terminal, in the site of a former Shell station, features indoor and outdoor seating, ADA accessible restrooms, a ticket kiosk, and round-the-clock live ticket sales. The new site doesn’t offer food but is within walking distance of a Waffle House, Wendy's and McDonald’s…The Greyhound station Downtown has moved nearly 10 miles west of the city’s center.”
The decision to move the Greyhound terminal drew harsh criticism from numerous transit advocates. One stated, “Columbus is a joke of a city. The new location is wildly inaccessible without a car. Just getting to the new station via COTA will add an hour to any trip I take.”