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the AEP Ohio just filed for a last-minute change at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) that would drastically reduce or eliminate fair compensation for solar homeowners who send extra electricity back to the grid. That means lower credits, longer payback periods, and thousands of Ohio families losing the benefit of their rooftop solar investment.
Before you installed solar, you counted on stable net-metering rules that let you export extra solar at a fair value. But now AEP and others want to rewrite those rules behind our backs — just as the economy tightens and energy costs rise.
If you support rooftop solar, clean energy, fairness, and a strong, decentralized grid, please take two minutes and submit a comment to PUCO:
Thursday, November 27 through December 1, 2025
Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration. This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations. This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
More information and join the movement here.
In addition to approving $500,000 for a women’s volleyball team (owned by a rich millionaire) and also raising the rates for water your Columbus City Council was also the scene of an emotional apology by Councilmember Emanuel Remy.
Fantastic. He admitted what everyone already knew. He is a loud and aggressive bully, but has been taking a management class (paid for by your taxes) that will likely not change his core problem that he has no empathy for other people.
This is the man hand-picked by City Council President Shannon Hardin to represent his constituents’ needs and solve their problems. All of this goes back to Hardin pushing aside a Black woman and community advocate just to get Remy into City Council. He’s there and there’s nothing that Hardin is going to do about it other than ignore him.
Flying robots built for war (Anduril) aren’t the only robots coming to Rickenbacker International Airport – one of the world’s busiest logistic hubs.
These robots, however, won’t obliterate you on the spot. But they and their corporate masters could vaporize thousands of decent-paying warehouse jobs from Central Ohio – and do so without a second thought for the human beings who’ve toiled in these warehouses for years.
“Robots are taking over, and that’s a good thing for warehouse professionals!” claims this robotics manufacturer.
Community Grants application is now available for ComFest 2026
DEADLINE: January 19, 2026
Complete this form to submit a grant application for ComFest 2026
The Community Festival established the grants program in the spirit of giving back to the community. Each year, ComFest invites grant applications to support and sustain programming consistent with ComFest’s principles which are rooted in community, social justice and progressive activism. Since 1997, ComFest has awarded over $688,000 in grants to local organizations and community causes.
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Entertainment Applications are open for ComFest 2026DEADLINE: March 1, 2026
Musical performers, workshop presenters and speakers can apply.
Complete this form to submit an entertainment application for ComFest 2026
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While regulators catch them venting gas for 60 hours straight, the company pushes "chemical recycling" pilot with East Palestine chemical.
HEBRON, OH — In case you missed it, the Buckeye Environmental Network is exposing a critical public health failure in Licking County. Freepoint Eco-Systems has been slapped with its third air permit violation in a single year by the Ohio EPA.
While this company quietly admitted to illegally venting volatile chemicals 79 times, they are simultaneously seeking to expand their facility to "recycle" PVC—a process involving the same toxic chemical behind the East Palestine disaster.
THE FACTS MEDIA OUTLETS ARE MISSING:
1. A 60-Hour Chemical Release This wasn't a minor leak. Between February and June 2025, Freepoint bypassed their mandatory vapor combustors 79 separate times.
One single event lasted 59 hours—nearly two and a half days of continuous, unpermitted venting to an open flare.
This is the third time in 12 months they've been cited (previous violations were for excessive particulate matter).
Republicans aren’t the only people who support private schools in Ohio.
The Columbus City Schools (CCS) Board of Education also wants to make private schools the best they can be. Need proof?
There are lots of cuts that the Board of Education are talking about to save money, but they keep ignoring the two most obvious. They ignore these two choices, because not to, would affect the administrators in the Central Office (over 250 full-time plus their support staff).
On December 8, 2019, the former superintendent got the paperwork approved for CCS to pay the retirement contribution for everyone in the Central Office. That means that every year since 2019 an additional 5-6 million dollars have gone into the pockets of the administrators in the Central Office instead of helping the students. Now with budget cuts on the horizon the entire Board of Education has suddenly forgotten this selfish decision.
Showing how selfish and greedy they are? That’s a great way to help promote Columbus private schools!
Tuesday, Nov 25th from 8am - noon
8070 E Broad St
Join Starbucks union baristas in Central Ohio!
Starbucks Workers across The United States have been fighting for a union contract for four years. In 2024 we started contract negotiations with the company and reached agreements that address many of our biggest issues. However, Starbucks has stalled negotiating increases to our wages and we have reached a critical moment in our campaign requiring a massive strike across our 600+ unionized stores, starting on Red Cup Day. The holiday is both Starbucks highest grossing season, as well as one of the most financially stressful for workers.
There are 19 Unionized Starbucks stores in Columbus, accounting for almost one third of the company owned locations. Your donations will support striking workers and greatly offset our financial burdens during this critical moment. Please give what you can and help support workers fighting for their rights!
The weather is looking dreary so make sure to layer up and bring an umbrella/raincoat.
In an election that signaled both political and generational change, longtime Hilliard resident Nadia Rasul emerged as the top vote-getter in the November 4, 2025 City Council race securing one of four open seats and becoming the first Muslim woman ever elected to Hilliard’s council.
Rasul’s victory was decisive and historic, but according to her, the reason she won was simple: “People want to feel heard.”
In an interview following the election, Rasul said that many Hilliard residents feel their voices come too late in the decision-making process. By the time citizens deliver public comments, the council has often already signaled how it intends to vote.
“That’s why people are frustrated,” she said. “They want a city government that listens before decisions are made.”