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Whatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the acceleration of climate change, chances are you don’t know enough, say environmental advocates at Save Ohio Parks.
The statewide 501(c)4 organization dedicated to educating the public about the health, environmental and planet-warming effects of fracking under state parks and public lands announces a new public education service: in-person or virtual presentations on the facts about fracking.
The meetings include a Power Point presentation and audience Q&A on topics including:
Traditionally, executioners, bank robbers, and killers in horror films wear masks. It's easier to do bad things and to frighten others when you cannot be held accountable, when you cannot be recognized as human.
Gangs of masked men are kidnapping people in the United States on behalf of the U.S. government, and refusing to identify themselves. They could be non-governmental criminals, for all anyone knows, and yet refusal to obey them is treated as a crime, even if their victim had not been accused of any other crime prior to that moment.
We're pushing forward three pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress:
The VISIBLE Act — introduced by Sen. Alex Padilla, this bill prohibits ICE agents from concealing their identities.
The No Masks for ICE Act — introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, this bill bans ICE officers from wearing face coverings that obscure their identities.
The No Secret Police Act — introduced by Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat, this bill closes loopholes that allow federal agencies to act as unaccountable secret police, shielding themselves from public scrutiny.
The Central Ohio Worker Center and the Ohio Federation of Teachers are co-hosting the first Central Ohio High School Collective Bargaining Day. At least ten unions and 45 students will come together for a day-long program to learn about unions and participate in a Collective Bargaining Simulation. The curriculum and materials for the program are provided by the DePaul University Labor Education Center, and the Northeast Ohio Worker Center has hosted a similar program the last two summers. Students will leave with hands-on experience negotiating a work contract, will learn about what rights they have as a worker, and will make personal connections with local union leadership. Columbus City Councilmember Rob Dorans will share opening remarks. Event registration is full.
The quarterly meeting of the Franklin County Treasurer, Cheryl Brooks Sullivan, and the Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) took place last Thursday, July 24, 2025. This meeting of the IAC was the last quarterly meeting before the Treasurer is faced with the decision of whether or not to reinvest $2,500,000 of tax payer funds into Israel bonds set to mature on October 1, 2025. The first half of the meeting consisted of a presentation on the standing of the county’s portfolio, while the second half was dedicated to public comment.
When the activist and preservation group Community Improvement 614 wanted to know more about LinkUS plans for West Broad Street, a federal engineer spoke up, saying, “You won’t recognize West Broad when we’re done, it will look completely different.”
This was a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) engineer talking candidly, and also on that call with Community Improvement 614 were officials from the City of Columbus and COTA, the Central Ohio Transit Authority. Others heavily involved with LinkUS are the Columbus Partnership and MORPC {Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission), and construction on West Broad for LinkUS’s first “Bus Rapid Transit” (BRT) line is scheduled to begin in 2026 with its accordion buses running by 2028.
Community Improvement 614 hastily formed last summer after realizing LinkUS could drastically alter West Broad.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 6:00 PM
Schiller Park, 1069 Jaeger St., Columbus
Israel is trying to deflect global outrage by promising more aid, but we know the truth: starvation, blockade, and mass killing are not accidents. They are weapons of genocide. Even if trucks move tomorrow, this is not a solution. It’s a PR cover for genocide and the the world must not look away.
Bring signs, Kufiyahs, Flags, pots and pans.
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Between deep Medicaid cuts and a ballooning budget for an increasingly fascistic Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the recently passed federal budget contained grim news for just about everyone in the country. While MAGA-land rejoices at the bill’s passage, recent climate-related disasters show that everyone will suffer under this “Big Beautiful Bill”. The legislation guts Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), eliminating tax credits for renewable energy and electric vehicles — a move that will cost Ohio billions in investment and thousands of jobs. Even Trump’s most rabid white nationalist supporters will live in the hotter, more disaster-prone, and volatile climate system that this climate rollback will help to usher in — right along with the rest of us.
The deadly Texas floods have receded, leaving lost and shattered lives. Donald Trump tells us not to politicize the moment, with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt calling the floods “
Senate Bill 63 would ban ranked-choice voting statewide and withhold state funding from cities who want to use it.