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Friday, February 16, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), in cooperation with the OSU Office of Energy and Environment and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), is pleased to present the first of three events for Spring 2018, focusing on cities, water, and green infrastructure.

Panel Discussion: “Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”

Panelists:

• Kristen Atha, Vice President, AECOM [Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Management]

• Maria Conroy, Professor, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture

• Jay Martin, Professor, OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

• Keith Myers, Vice President, OSU Planning and Real Estate, Office of Administration and Planning

• John Stark, Ohio Freshwater Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy

Contact: https://cura.osu.edu/feb16

Thursday, February 15 to Saturday, February 17, Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio

Registration is now open for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 39th annual conference, “A Taste for Change.”

Ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference features:

• Nearly 80 educational and inspiring workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, homesteading, gardening, and business on Friday and Saturday;

• A three-day trade show with 90+ businesses, organizations, and government agencies offering food, books, equipment, products, information, and services;

• In-depth, full-day Food and Farm School courses on Thursday;

• Engaging nationally-recognized keynote speakers Jeff Moyer and Stacy Malkan;

• Made-from-scratch, local, organic meals;

• Thursday and Friday evening networking and receptions;

• Kids’ conference, child care, and more!

Registration: http://www.oeffa.org/conference2018.php

Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

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Stories and Songs of the Black Experience
Tuesday, February 13, 12noon-1pm, Ohio Statehouse Atrium
We’ve Known Rivers is an organization of teaching artists. They share timeless stories of America’s history through the impact and influence of the black experience. They make history come alive by creatively sharing dramatic presentations of famous African American characters, less well known, and composite characters through artistic dramatic performances.

A lot went on in national politics this week. After a benign start to February, the past seven days stunned us by providing plenty of drama to think about and discuss. The Republicans have always been intent on dragging civilization back a few centuries, but it was amazing to see on how many fronts they are now appealing to their base. The Democrats took a big swig of Dutch courage and had someone be on their feet for eight hours straight. There was another shutdown, the vice-president embarrassed himself, and one of the world’s most famous election thieves crawled out of the woodwork to complain about election theft.

Most people generally feel that their piece of the American dream as landowners is located in the best part of the country. That, as landowners, their slice of heaven on earth is the best, and indeed that may be true for many. This is at the core of our countries declaration stating that "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are three examples of “unalienable rights" which the Declaration says have been given to all human beings. There are two types of rights, Natural and Legal. Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws of government, and so are universal, inalienable and they cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws. Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system, therefore they can be modified, repealed, and restrained by human laws.

The verdicts have been reached:

Wriply Bennet: Disorderly Conduct - Guilty
Failure to Obey - Guilty
Resisting Arrest - Guilty

Ashley: Disorderly Conduct - Guilty
Failure to Obey - Guilty
Resisting Arrest - Not Guilty

Kendall Denton: Disorderly Conduct - Guilty
Failure to Obey - Not Guilty

Sentences will happen in 3-4 weeks.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to support Wriply, Ashley, and Kendall over the past week. Continue to keep the #BlackPride4 in your thoughts.

Monday, February 12, 7-9pm

Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: Pat Marida. Pat will speak about Ohio’s nuclear reactors and the Portsmouth Nuclear Site, nuclear threats to the Great Lakes, and bad state and federal legislation. Pat Marida has been an Executive Committee member of the Ohio Sierra Club and chair of their Nuclear Free Committee for the past 10 years. She has been a member of the national Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign Core Team since its beginning in 2010.  She was an office volunteer and board member of the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign throughout the 1980s. As such she has followed nuclear issues at the state, national and international (with Canada) levels. She will give an overview of nuclear issues in Ohio and beyond. Pat was chair of the Central Ohio Sierra Club for 9 years and edited their newsletter for 11 years in the 90s and early 2000s.

Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com

Students For Opioid Solutions, a grassroots movement to prevent opioid deaths on college campuses, is proud to announce that February 7, the Undergraduate Student Government at THE Ohio State University unanimously passed SOS’s trademark legislation.
 

This legislation will reduce the number of deaths from opioid overdoses on college campuses to zero through a five part process: 1) Pass student government legislation calling upon school administrators to require that residential life and campus police officers receive training in the recognition of an opioid overdose. 2) Encourage residential life staff to receive training in the use of naloxone and either carry it or have reasonably quick access. 3) Ensure that schools record and report the number of opioid overdoses and deaths in their annual public drug and alcohol report. 4) Ensure amnesty for students who report overdoses. 5) Enact a Good Samaritan clause protecting students who come to the aid of someone suffering from an opioid overdose.
 

Great news! Today, Governor John Kasich announced he will grant a reprieve until October 17, 2018 to Ray Tibbetts, who had been scheduled for execution on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. The purpose of this temporary reprieve is to allow the Ohio Parole Board to convene a hearing to consider new evidence bearing on Ray's clemency request. 

Thanks to you and many others taking action, there will not be an execution next week. There is a lot of work that goes into stopping executions. That's why we are so grateful to you for being an Ohioan to Stop Executions. Thank you.

Since there will not be an execution Feb. 13, we've decided to postpone the activity at the Statehouse to April 11, the date of Ohio's next scheduled execution. OTSE will post information and actions on the case of William T. Montgomery in the coming weeks.

Following is a statement from Erin Barnhart, attorney for Ray Tibbetts: