Local
Friday, January 11, 12-1pm
Senator Rob Porman's office, 37 W. Broad St., Suite 300
Join our union brothers and sisters of AFGE for a rally this Friday, January 11th to end the government shutdown. Every day that this government shutdown drags on, hundreds of thousands of working people are denied a paycheck and millions lose the vital government services that we deserve. Real families with very real bills are being harmed and it’s time we hold our country’s leadership accountable.
Thursday, January 10, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30 PM. Central Ohio American Promise Meeting. Please join us at our next monthly meeting. Lots to report. Many meetings with legislators. Post cards and more. Progress towards our road map and some free stuff. Please come prepared to write a post card to your Ohio state senator and state representative and maybe others.
Tuesday, January 8, 6:30pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Join us for our community action meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 6:30pm. We discuss strategies to expand Edith's community of support, and we plan actions to support of Edith in her fight against ICE to stay in Columbus. All are welcome.
Monday, Jan 7, 6-8pm
Lincoln Cafe, 740 E. Long St.
Let’s Celebrate Kent’s 2nd term and Celebrate Kent’s HB 137
becoming law to make Ohio Law Enforcement Officers
mandated reporters of child abuse as in the other 49 States.
Longtime Columbus residents understand some of the inherent causes that lead to homelessness in our community. Tax abatements for high-end real estate developments and a slowed job growth rate in 2018 mean that many middle class individuals can’t afford to live here. For those earning minimum wage or the unemployed, the threat of homelessness is very real.
In fact, families and children are among the highest at-risk populations for homelessness. According to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA), about 30 percent of the homeless serviced by various state agencies in 2017 were minors. In addition, the overall rate of homelessness increased across the state in 2018. Homelessness isn’t under control in Ohio by any means.
A luxury apartment offering beautiful views of 70 West is framed by two massive water tanks. Just a short stroll away from fine dining at Bob Evans – but be careful, because there’s no crosswalk.
And don’t forget the amenities and convenience of two nearby gas stations.
Luxury apartments are sprouting up in the damnedest of places around town. Everywhere you look developers are building complexes where a cavernous 400-sq-ft pad goes for a cool $1,300-a-month and a 775-sq-ft two bedroom for an affordable $2,400/month.
Out west on the Columbus-Hilliard border it gets no weirder than the complex being built on Fisher Road. Many of the apartments will be mere feet from two city water tanks. It will be called Austin Place, built and managed by the locally-owned Donald R. Kenney & Company Realty.
Right next to Austin Place are the luxury apartments of Andover Park, where you have easy access to the sweet sounds of 70 West as well as your next door neighbor’s life considering many residents have complained online how thin (and cheap) the walls are.
Saturday, January 5th, 2019, 12:00 PM. SURJ Columbus Reading Group. Join SURJ Columbus (Showing Up for Racial Justice) for the second installment of our monthly reading group! We meet the first Saturday of the month at various locations throughout the city. For this session we’ll be reading/discussing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf
All are welcome. Any members of the public who wish to learn more about getting involved with SURJ are invited to stay for a brief information session AFTER the discussion. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library - Hilltop Branch, 511 S Hague Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43204
Residents of the planet,
Energy and all its concerns are being solved every day in conversations held by big media pundits and dinner table enthusiasts. The problem is that no one is doing the work – or at least, almost no one.
Headlines will often read that jobs are plentiful in solar and wind industries, but this is not a reality for many employees in related fields around Ohio. Also, many electric customers who pay a surcharge for renewable energy to turn on their lights and charge their smart phones do so purchasing Renewable Energy Credits from a regional marketplace, which only indirectly supports the transition to a clean grid. Thankfully, current Ohio law requires Ohio’s investor owned utilities (IOU), like AEP or First Energy, to generate more electricity from renewable energy each year, reaching 12.5 percent by 2027.
In December, Ohioans from all around the Buckeye State testified their convictions to Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) board members holding an important hearing. A resounding message spoke of the good it will do for skilled workers that build the proposed 400MW solar system in Highland County.