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Jordan McLaughlin has lived in Columbus 15 years. He saved up money while renting and made the decision to buy a house. “I put in bids that were well above the asking price, but just kept getting beat by others making all cash offers without any inspection.”
“The average family can’t compete against private equity. It made me angry.”
Welcome to Columbus; where private equity now owns about 20 percent (over 7000) single-family homes.
Not because they want to make your city better, but because they rent them back to families to make a profit. This isn’t news. Private equity has quietly been buying up single family homes across the country.
The goal for private equity is to own everything.
But now, Jordan and others have decided to do something about it.
Yesterday, the Ohio House passed SB 63, which will ban Ranked Choice Voting in Ohio and punish communities that try to use it.
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 18:00
Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse
Hosted by Green Columbus
Join Green Columbus on February 26th at Studio 35 with SWACO and Trash Party for a screening of Wall-E and a discussion afterwards about waste reduction, litter clean-up initiatives, and how folks can get involved locally!
Join Ohioans Against Extremism to learn about bills being considered in the Ohio Legislature, and ways you can take action and make a difference. Get caught up on what's gone down so far and what experts and insiders expect to happen next.
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Fifteen or so of us from the Columbus Mennonite Church and elsewhere gathered yesterday (2-22-2026) at 2:00 p.m. at the Target store at the Graceland Shopping Center in Columbus, Ohio for a "Sing Down the Doors" protest.
Yesterday's event had been hosted by the recently-formed Columbus chapter of a North American organization named Mennonite Action.
Mennonites, fellow Christians, and friends across North America are holding public, nonviolent disruptive worship services at Target stores across the United States to call for Target to end its complicity with ICE.
Every February, we rediscover inventors. We share portraits, post quotes, and remind one another of names that were overlooked. For a moment, history expands. Then March arrives.
Granville T. Woods held more than fifty patents related to electrical systems and rail communication. His work improved how trains operated and communicated, helping shape the transportation systems that connected American cities. His innovations mattered — yet most people have never heard his name.
Not because his work was small, but because patents do not build monuments. A patent proves invention. A textbook preserves information. But neither guarantees visibility. If a story does not take up space, it can quietly fade from public view.
That is the difference between recognition and presence. We can say someone mattered and still fail to make their story visible. When history occupies real space — a building, an exhibit, or a restored artifact — people encounter it differently. It becomes part of the landscape. It becomes harder to overlook.
Scale changes memory.
Friday, February 20, Blendon Township used $150,000 in taxpayer money to send Connor Grubb out the door with a clean record. This is a man who drew his weapon on an unarmed pregnant woman over a shoplifting allegation, positioned himself in front of her vehicle to manufacture a threat, and fired through her windshield. Ta'Kiya Young and her unborn daughter died because of his decisions. He is responsible for this tragedy. Blendon Township is responsible for enabling it.
They cleared him internally. They reinstated him unanimously. They paid him to leave in good standing. Three times this township had the chance to say that killing Ta'Kiya Young was wrong. Three times they said it was fine. No apology. No policy change. No step taken to ensure this never happens again. That is not closure. That is a pattern.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) says Grubb's name was "smeared in the media," but they know the truth. His name was in the media because he shot an unarmed pregnant woman unjustifiably. The only smear here is on Blendon Township's record and on the FOP for defending him, and they put it there themselves.
In an new video, Lynn Tramonte of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance (OIA) explains how ICE’s tactics for making arrests mimic the behavior of criminals, and the agency has a history of employing violent and sexual offenders. The two facts are intrinsically linked. She says:
Only one person now reigns over atomic safety regulation in the United States: Donald Trump.
Trump has personally invested in the latest “nuclear renaissance” being boosted by the “Epstein Billionaire” class.
As part of the atomic push, the Trump Media & Technology group is joining a $6 billion deal with TAE, a California’-based tech scam pushing fusion energy to power future data centers.
https://tae.com/trump-media-and-technology-group-to-merge-with-tae-technologies
Without a hint of concern for an obvious conflict of interest, Trump has also taken full control of the “regulation” of atomic power reactors, fission and fusion, small and large, present and future.
Trump recently became the first President to fire a chairman of the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission that oversees the safety of 94 US commercial nukes.
My brother, Arturo Brito, entered the United States from Venezuela and applied for asylum. He passed his “credible fear interview” and was granted parole, that allowed him to live legally in the U.S. while his asylum case moved forward.