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Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 2:00 pm EDT
Cleveland State University Student Center SC 313, 2121 Euclid Avenue 44115
I have written about Columbus’ identity crisis and the failure of its media and especially the non-daily, non-news Columbus Dispatch in both the Columbus Free Press and ColumbusUnderground, but I have only touched briefly on WOSU, the Ohio State University-owned, local National Public Radio affiliate. (See “Columbus’ identity crisis and its media”; “Response to Columbus Alive, ‘The list: Reasons that Columbus Underground opinion piece is trash,’ by Andy Downing and Joel Oliphint, Columbus Alive, July 26: A visit to journalism fantasy land”; and “The Columbus Dispatch: The decline of a metropolitan daily newspaper.”)
Despite shifting dates, Ohio is preparing for a primary that will leave an indelible mark on politics nationwide.
Rob Portman’s decision to retire in 2021 created an open Senate seat that multiple politicians are competing to fill. With Ohio remaining solid red for the past two presidential elections, and serving as the location for a contentious special election last year, the results of the primary elections are expected to be a referendum on many things.
For Republicans, it will indicate how firm Donald Trump’s grasp is on the Republican Party. For Democrats, whether moderate liberals or the growing progressive vanguard, is the future of electoral success.
Sunday, March 20, 2022, 5:30 PM. Sunday, March 20, 2022, 5:30 PM. Evening Event.
Location: jacob’s porch, 45 E. 13th Ave., Columbus. More information on the Facebook Event Page.
Join in-person or live stream.
Saturday, March 19, 6-8pm, Parkview United Methodist Church, 344 S. Algonquin Ave.
1DivineLine2Health is a 501(c)3 public charity based on the West Side of Columbus, Ohio. 1DL2H provides Christ-centered care to the sick who have no access to healthcare. We are compassionate messengers who deliver healing to the broken mind, body, soul, and spirit.
Our mission is to end human trafficking through collaborative and grassroots efforts. We love, respect, and connect directly with our street family. The “Love Bug Street Outreach” is a critical provider for hygiene supplies, Narcan, first aid, infection control measures, and emotional support. The “Love Drop-In Center” is the stationary “Love Bug” whereby the women shower, rest, receive clothes, eat a warm meal, and connect to services. They also have access to wound care and harm reduction supplies.
For us to continue our work, we rely on the generous support of our community neighbors, businesses, and organizations.
I recently received a phone call from Andrew Nortz who is a 6½ year resident of Blendon Township and whose one-acre property abuts a new development of 27.88 acres that is currently being cleared for 156 units of one- and two-bedroom one story apartments. He asked if I would meet with him and his wife and listen to what they had to say about how they and other neighbors were bamboozled by the City of Columbus, developers and the developers’ seasoned zoning attorneys. Andrew had read about my involvement in fighting alongside of the Little Turtle neighborhood against the jaw-droppingly unethical Little Turtle Roadway project that is just around the corner from Blendon Township.
Columbus City Council unanimously approved the rezoning of the property in July of last year. Mr. Nortz gave me a tour on March 16 of the 27.88 acres that is now being developed. He said the area is home to wild turkeys, fox, deer, owls, hawks, raccoons, numerous bird species, wetlands, natural springs and vernal pools.
We recently helped pass the Postal Service Reform Act, which ended unnecessary expenses that had been designed to bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service.
But Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed by Donald Trump, is still hard at work trying to run the USPS into the ground.
He's made plans to buy 148,000 mail delivery trucks from weapons dealer Oshkosh Defense, a company that's moved from Wisconsin to South Carolina to exploit low-wage non-union workers. Ninety percent of the trucks would burn gasoline at a rate of 8 miles per gallon.
Click here to tell Congress: Make the USPS contract require at least 75% electric trucks!
As Ohio’s recent Republican-dominated redistricting process bungles on, any Ohioan who has been paying attention has probably realized the importance of our state’s Supreme Court. Thanks to Republican Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor siding with the court’s three Democratic justices, the uber-gerrymandered Statehouse and congressional maps that the Ohio Redistricting Commission recently passed (along party lines) have now been found to be unconstitutional not once, but THRICE. This rightful rejection of gerrymandering –– as well as the correct protection of Ohio’s new redistricting laws, which are enshrined in our constitution due to their respective 2015 and 2018 ballot initiatives –– has thankfully put the spotlight onto Ohio’s vital (but often forgotten!) third branch of government.
On February 26, 1987, President Ronald Reagan officially declared Proclamation 5613 making March National Disabilities Awareness Month.
Proclamation 5613 called for understanding, instilling confidence, and opportunities to help those with disabilities to live productive and fulfilling lives.
I think inclusiveness benefits individuals with disabilities as well as the rest of our society.
A functioning organism as a society ensures all people have a healthy existence.
I worked as a provider for the Franklin County department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MRDD) until Franklin County MRDD switched to a company called Boundless in 2016. I worked with Boundless until 2020.
A provider goes into the homes of the developmentally disabled. A provider works with social, and life skills from a recommended individual service plan. A provider drives a person with Autism or Down syndrome to work, school, recreation centers, the grocery, and other places where a individual might visit.
