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The Columbus Civilian Police Review Board (CPRB) met on November 3, 2022, for the 15th time, admitting they are confused about key aspects of their power to discipline sworn officers of the Columbus Division of Police (CPD).
Willard McIntosh, the only member of the board previously sworn to serve as a Columbus police officer, summed up their concerns well:
“My family, my friends, say, ‘What can you guys do?’
And when I explain it, to be honest, they say, ‘Oh so, nothin’?’
Really.”
Janet Jackson, the chair of the board, had invited several Assistant City Attorneys to the meeting to help the board prepare to review the first thirty investigations completed by Inspector General Jacqueline Hendricks, in attendance.
Jackson began the meeting by thanking City Attorney Zach Klein, who was sitting at the table with the board members, and his staff for doing a wonderful job responding to the needs of the CPRB, acknowledging that she is not his only client and that his office is very busy.
Never a responsible, reliable, or honest newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio’s only mass—if declining by the day—circulation, no longer daily and no longer news-paper, no longer resembles a legitimate element of the media. Other than gross profiteering, it no longer has a reason to exist. I strongly suggest that it closes its doors, refund its subscribers, and compensate the remaining 70 of its recent 200 employees.
Let’s count the reasons:
1. It is part of the monopolistic, profiteering, unadmitted right-wing, and anti-news USA Today/Gannett chain of more than 230 no longer daily newspapers plus many other online sites. It no longer has any editorial, contents, copy, layout, or website independence.
Chaotic page and section layout is done in Austin, Texas.
Selection of articles and some opinion essays is done by USA Today/Gannett. Thus, readers are not permitted to comment on selected right-wing essays that come from such operations as Heritage Foundation, one of USA Today’s funders and a holder of a seat of its Board of Directors.
Governor Mike DeWine stuck his finger in the eyes of the Columbus Dispatch by not coming in for a pre-election interview.
His punishment? The newspaper endorsed Nan Whaley, who showed up for the interview, in a meandering long-winded article that concluded: “We urge you to vote for Nan Whaley for governor.”
The editorial, done by a newspaper that used to endorse a multitude of candidates and often played the role of kingmaker in close races, marked another reverse in a policy announced more than a year ago that the newspaper would no longer be telling its readers what to think, but rather would be conducting a “conversation” on its formerly called opinion pages.
The endorsement was released online early Friday morning and is destined to be featured on the section page of the newspaper’s Conversation section on Sunday, two days before the election.
It marked the second reversal of policy in a week at the central Ohio media outlet because the previous Sunday, the Dispatch endorsed Tim Ryan for U.S. Senator under the headline: “Vance Is No Stateman, Vote Ryan for US Senate.”
October was a deadly month for Palestinians, and the brutality is continuing with the months-long military campaign to violently stamp out Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, called “Operation Break the Wave.” The Israeli military has killed at least 29 Palestinians, almost half of them children. Palestinians continue to engage in mass civil disobedience, strikes, and demonstrations. The siege of Nablus and other communities across the West Bank continues to cause economic hardship and prevents Palestinians from accessing hospitals and even healthcare. Palestine is under attack, and the mainstream media has been silent or merely echoes the talking points of Israeli military that censors all news.
As a journalist and human rights defender, I was exiled from my home country Iran for speaking out against the brutal oppression of women.
Now a people’s revolution is unfolding in front of our eyes. For over 40 days, courageous women and girls have been leading demonstrations on every street after the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, demanding freedom and an end to the brutal dictatorship that treats women as second class citizens.
But the regime is beating and killing them in an effort to silence their voices. Enough!
Now I am personally asking you to join me and other Iranian activists in calling on world leaders to stand with the people in Iran, and use their political and economic influence to isolate the regime, and push for an end to the bloodshed.
Let's make this the biggest global call to stop the war on women in Iran, and I will work with Avaaz to deliver our voices to the media and key governments. Join now and share with everyone:
Art museums and galleries across the US are unionizing. From Philadelphia to Columbus, Ohio, workers are going up against museums’ board of trustees to battle for union recognition. On these boards sit America’s local elites, some of whom are financing right-wing, Trump-backed political candidates, connecting the art world to reactionary finance capital.
Columbus Museums Unionizing
Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines’ TV ad buy aims to tell conservative voters the juicy truth about Justice Pat DeWine’s two messy divorces
Just in time for the general election on November 8, Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines is putting its hard hitting political ad “Cheating Pat DeWine” on Fox News outlets around Ohio this week, including in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton. The ad features the vocal talents of comedian/podcaster Corinne Fisher.
Part Two
The far greatest numbers of students want to do the right thing including obeying laws and respecting neighbors while also having fun and being in their early 20s. No one tells them that the University District is a residential, historical district with remaining homeowners, mainly with OSU connections. Or anything else of value.
Not OSU Student Life with its growing Off-Campus division. Their main activity is a periodic free food truck, with tiny participation, for grab-and-snacks, handing out brochures too late with out-of-date or incorrect information, and planting ridiculous, juvenile, often false slogan-bearing signs on private property without permission. They range from “Over 60,000 students from more than 90 countries live in the University District.” Wrong. “If you need to know something, ask Brutus Buckeye (cartoon character team mascot).” Huh? How? “Most OSU students don’t drive after having 5 or more drinks.” Isn’t that comforting?
Both Policy Matters Ohio and ACLU Ohio support the coalition working to defeat Issue 1 — a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution which would double down on inhumane and ineffective wealth-based detention.
Policy Matters Ohio’s senior researcher Piet van Lier released the following statement:
“Most Ohioans believe that liberty and justice for all means everyone, no matter their race, gender, or income. But under Ohio’s cash bail system, people accused of a crime can be held in jail for days, weeks or months while awaiting trial simply because they can’t afford to buy their freedom. In fact, on any given day, more than 12,000 Ohioans are incarcerated before their trials, the majority not because they pose a threat to anyone but because they can’t afford to pay their way out of jail.
“Ohio lawmakers from both sides of the aisle recognized that holding people in jail simply because they cannot afford bail is not only unjust, it actually places more stress and strain on our communities. That’s why a group of legislators proposed a bipartisan plan to end wealth-based detention in our state.