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Terrapin Moon came on after the white-hot fireballs known as Electric Orange Peel (should say 'Atomic' Orange Peel). A Grateful Dead cover/tribute band whose version of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider was spot-on, the mournful Rider insertion choking me up, my dear beautiful brother Bob having passed last year and it was like he was singing to me, "gonna miss me when I'm gone."
Before the song was over I was pedaling home, overcome by the sad refrain, missing my gone brother, the sunglasses I found in his basement hiding the tears pouring out of my sad eyes.
Two years of no music. Then one refrain from one Dead song with a borrowed blues motif and I'm reduced to nothing but humanness. Trust me, I don't think I'm special. But he was, my dear brother Bob. And so was that song.
The criminal trials against three Columbus police officers for their actions during the 2020 summer protests has, some activists believe, turned farcical and (once again) shows how the Division and its union act in an autonomous and defiant way.
Last week lead special prosecutor Kathleen Garber resigned out of frustration – and probably out of fear from the fallout of trying to prosecute Columbus police officers in a criminal trial.
Garber confirmed to the Free Press she fainted in the courtroom during a recent trial day, and afterwards, the FOP Capital City Lodge #9 sent her flowers.
Whether it was out of spite to mock her or the flowers were heartfelt is a good question. But one the local FOP probably won’t answer, or if they did, an answer not to be trusted.
“That is accurate,” confirmed Garber to the Free Press is an email. “They sent flowers addressed to me at the office of Public Safety, even though I was not employed there or have an office there.”
Tuesday, July 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join a fishbowl conversation with Ohio policy experts and community leaders to talk about life in a post-Roe Ohio.
Experts will be joining the conversation from Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Equality Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Case Western Reserve Law School, plus Dr. Anita Somani, a practicing OBGYN.
We will discuss the connection between the courts, your rights, and gerrymandering; interfaith messaging and fairness; the law/impact of the Ohio Supreme Court; civil rights; and more.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Ohio Voice, and Fair Districts Coalition.
Tuesday, July 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join a fishbowl conversation with Ohio policy experts and community leaders to talk about life in a post-Roe Ohio.
Experts will be joining the conversation from Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Equality Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Case Western Reserve Law School, plus Dr. Anita Somani, a practicing OBGYN.
We will discuss the connection between the courts, your rights, and gerrymandering; interfaith messaging and fairness; the law/impact of the Ohio Supreme Court; civil rights; and more.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Ohio Voice, and Fair Districts Coalition.
“Ohio’s nine of the top ten warmest and eight of its top ten wettest years have all occurred since 1990,” said OSU’s Vice President of Agricultural Administration, Cathann Kress.
Kress was speaking at OSU’s Earth Day event back in April, aptly named “Time to Act on Climate Change.”
“Climate is not just about the environment, it’s about everything,” continued Kress.
The year 2022 is on track to be one of the state’s hottest and wettest. Ohio’s farmers are witnessing this firsthand as they run state’s $90 billion farming industry. The Ohio Farm Bureau says higher average nighttime temperatures and more intense rains results in more agricultural bugs and fungus, among other challenges.
During the OSU Earth Day event, Kress introduced the recipient of the 2022 Chadwick Award for “an outstanding character who has boldly chosen to speak for the trees.”
In the outpouring of reporting and opinion writing about today’s unprecedented campaigns for unconstitutional book banning and suppression of free speech, on the one hand, and locally-rooted, one shop at a time, unionization drives, on the other hand, a fundamental common element is not acknowledged. Resistance to book bans and censorship of curriculum and reading materials in classrooms and libraries, and efforts to unionize are most often locally-based among groups and individuals whose interests often align.
Their connections on multiple levels are seldom recognized. Despite the continuing lack of communication and coordination, the terrain of single institutions includes campaigns to organize graduate students, undergraduate student workers, faculty, staff, and librarians, and also local bookstore employees. They strikingly overlap. They cry for connections and commonality: genuine coalitions crossing vertical and horizontal spaces. Local and state activists tell me about much more inter-union and intra-institutional cooperation than the media report. (Thanks to Matt Ides and Thomas Johnson for comments on their relevant experiences over many years.)
As people around the world take to the streets to protest against human rights violations such as police brutality and restrictions on reproductive rights, they’re frequently met with violent crackdowns by law enforcement firing tear gas and other crowd-control weapons.
Deceptively known as “less-lethal,” these weapons can cause severe injuries and even death when used with excessive force. PHR has conducted numerous investigations into governments’ disproportionate and indiscriminate use of CCWs and other forms of excessive force in many countries, including in the United States during nationwide protests for racial justice after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd.
Crowd-control weapons can cause serious injury, disability, and even death. That’s why it’s so critical that you and your family, loved ones, and community members know what to prepare for, what precautions to take, and how to treat tear gas and other chemical irritants (e.g., pepper spray) before participating in any rally or demonstration.
Margaret's (Rebecca Hall) life is in order. She's capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had hoped. Everything is under control. That's, until David (Tim Roth) returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.
It's about a single mother acting alone to protect her child from some sort of dangerous threat or predator, but we don’t quite know who she is or why she must act alone. The character of Margaret is a complex woman, haunted by events in her past but also extremely in control of her life, or so she thinks. Margaret is a character preoccupied with control: control over her environment, her body, her emotions. Maintaining control is how she keeps her emotional wolves at bay and brings her a sense of pride. But of course, if you’re someone interested in maintaining strict control over yourself and your environment, the worst thing you can possibly do is have a child.
As I continue my search for Columbus’ history and identity, I regularly rediscover the City’s and the city’s willful lack of the foundational elements for a modern city. I return to its absence of typical city reforms toward representative city government in the second half of the nineteenth century and its missing Progressive Era of the early 20th century: that’s capital P, unlike our present-day search for a 21st century progressivism. These are historical anomalies, unlike other cities of its age and size in Ohio and across the nation.
A central element in Columbus’ absent core is the combined extent of mismanagement and lack of management, and both real and likely corruption. As Ohio increasingly takes center stage nationally for corruption permeating its state government, 21st century Columbus takes center stage as its corruption capital.
On July 18th at noon, Ohioans will gather in three cities - Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland - for a Day of Hope.
The three events will take place on the anniversary of the last person to be executed in Ohio (Robert Van Hook, July 18, 2018) and will include a call on state leaders to end the death penalty.
“We’re hopeful that Ohio has seen its last execution. Death penalty repeal has bipartisan support in the legislature and we’re confident that we will see an end to this system in the near future,” said Hannah Kubbins, executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE).
The events will take place at 12 pm, noon, at the following locations:
Cincinnati: Fountain Square (520 Vine Street)Cleveland: Willard Park (NW corner of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue)Columbus: The Statehouse (1 Capitol Square)In Columbus, speakers will include: