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39th HOT TIMES COMMUNITY ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL,
Sept 11, 12, 13, 2015
240 Parsons Avenue, (Main & Parsons)
Hours:
Fri – 5PM - midnight
Sat – Noon - Midnight
Sunday – 11AM - 8PM
3 Stages - The Main Street, Parsons Avenue and Porch Swing Stages
The Hot Times Annual Art Car Show is the largest gathering of Art Cars in Ohio
Great vendors line the Loop Road creating a lively Street Fair
Fabulous Food!
Whole line up at www.hottimesfestival.com
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is proud to announce in their 2014 Annual Report that their already record-low recidivism rate has dropped again and is now 27.1 percent and continues to be well below the national average of 49.7 percent. Recidivism is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after he/she has either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior.
The report attributes Ohio’s reduction in recidivism to the use of evidence-based programs such as reintegration units within the prisons, programs to connect offenders with families and resources while incarcerated, community corrections programs and their continued work with local communities and reentry coalitions.
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Click cut is glimpse of Dispatch future
By John K. Hartman
It is just a TV magazine. Why do we care?
Most people get their TV listings from the on-screen program directories provided by cable and satellite providers and streaming services. Years ago weekly TV magazines in newspapers were profitable items, chocked full of advertisements adjacent to the listings and widely used by viewers at home. Now the weekly TV magazines are thin because they contain only listings, not advertisements, and are little used.
The Columbus Dispatch calls its magazine Click and until recently inserted the magazine in its Sunday paper. In his column on Sunday July 26, editor Alan D. Miller announced that Click would no longer be inserted in the Sunday paper, but would be moved to the Saturday paper, effective Aug. 1.
New owners shielded
The Columbus Free Press has been no great fan of city council president Andrew Ginther’s undistinguished career in the public sector; his face graced our 2013 Halloween cover, and we invited readers to use it as their Halloween mask as Ginther seems to be something that he was not – that he was a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, in our article “Gintherstein – A Democrat with Republican Chops,” http://columbusfreepress.com/article/gintherstein-democrat-republican-chops)”. And now it looks like the wheels are coming off his planned coronation as the city’s Mayor, and we feel a little nostalgic about that. I mean – if we don’t have Andy Ginther around, who in the hell will we have to expose or lampoon anymore? His tenure has provided such rich material for alternative press as he has turned Columbus into a crony-supporting corrupt political backwater of a town, while he stumbles from one abuse of public trust to the next.
The Free Press is proud to salute one of our contributors, local photographer Bob Studzinski, for the honor or having his work included in a digital art display at the Louvre in Paris, France on July 13, 2015. One of his photographs was displayed among work by an international group of photographers from over 191 countries.
Studzinski’s photograph was part the Fifth Annual Exposure Award, was included in a digital display of images presented at the Exposure Award Reception at the Louvre and in a Documentary Collection book. The curators congratulated him on having his work seen by over five million photo enthusiasts from around the world. Sales of the book will benefit the charity Pencils of Promise which is working to build schools in developing nations.
The latest politician to leap toward the GOP nomination is widely known as America’s most anti-green governor. But he has a critical decision coming up that could help change that. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has established a national reputation as a leading enemy of renewable energy and enhanced energy efficiency.
When he took office in 2011, he opened fire by killing a $400 million federal grant to restore passenger rail service between Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Columbus is the largest capital city in the western world that people cannot get to by train. It also has no internal commuter rail, making it what some have called “the mid-sized town technology forgot.” The rail grant had been painstakingly crafted over the better part of a decade by a broad bi-partisan coalition. It was poised to create hundreds of jobs and provide new opportunity for a number of small towns languishing along the restoration route.
Sara Nuber Thomas is a local amateur archaeologist who writes a blog called Expedition Finn: things to do in Ohio with a kid. The blog is named after her son of course, and through her day-trip expeditions she came across a 100-year-old archaeological map that showed the Central Ohio region dotted with Native American mounds and other peculiar looking earthworks. They wanted to see the mounds for themselves, and so they set out.
But what they found probably won’t surprise anyone, and she took pictures of what they saw and posted them on her blog. She ended up capturing images of aging country roads and newly built suburban houses, and of farmland too, but all the pictures were barren of anything created by the Native American pre-history cultures that once flourished here.
Black Lives Matter activists are under surveillance and attack here in Columbus.
A Columbus Police report obtained by the Columbus Free Press indicates that the police would have been justified in shooting Torri Sablan, a prominent local civil rights activist, as she rode along with friend Ashley Henderson when they transported Alexander Paraskos to the hospital on August 1st this year.
The police report included the chilling abbreviation Just. Hom. Circ. This means “justifiable homicide circumstance” – indicating the police would have been justified in killing Sablan.
Police records describe LEOKA circumstances, indicating a “Law Enforcement Officer Killed or Assaulted.”
How a going-away party thrown by activists and an innocent asthma attack turned into a potential police homicide situation is hotly disputed. Sablan and Henderson are black females and Paraskos is a transgender male -- all well-known political activists.
Mon, August 31, 10am, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio [PUCO], 180 E. Broad St.
The PUCO has postponed the hearings for the third time, to August 31, for which date we will reschedule our rally. Postponing is likely a good sign. PUCO has gotten a lot of push-back from the public, showing statistics that contradict the propaganda being fed to them by FirstEnergy. They will have a harder time rubberstamping the request and any complicity with industry would stand out.
Rally with the Sierra Club and others at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Tell them, “Don’t charge electric ratepayers $3 billion to bail out FirstEnergy’s unprofitable coal plants and the aging, accident-plagued Davis-Besse nuclear reactor!”
FirstEnergy led the fight that overturned Ohio’s renewable and efficiency standards. Boo! Now the PUCO is going to decide whether to hand them an enormous monetary gift, at the expense of the public health and purse.
No bailouts! No kidding!