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Has any Ohio citizen-led amendment worked this hard, overcome so many hurdles, and faced such disingenuous opposition from their own state government to get its constitutional amendment in front of voters?
“No,” Cynthia Brown said bluntly to the Free Press. Brown is the energy and leadership behind the Ohio Coalition To End Qualified Immunity.
Wen it comes to changing the policy which shields Ohio law enforcement from civil litigation after violating the civil rights of those they’ve sworn to protect, the Ohio Coalition To End Qualified Immunity (OCTEQI) always knew the challenge would be daunting. Afterall, they were up against the GOP-besieged executive offices of the Ohio Statehouse, which rejected their amendment nine times, making them re-start the process from the beginning each and every time.
Columbus Women’s Chorus, central Ohio’s only feminist chorus, will continue celebrating its 35th year with the world premiere of a commissioned work Dance the Wind, with music by Assistant Artistic Director / Accompanist Sheena Phillips and lyrics by soprano Bobbie Brooks. The Artistic Director is Lisa Springer.
The chorus will perform a wide variety of contemporary music, from folk to classical to blues, with new repertoire plus favorites chosen by members of the chorus, now 80 singers strong.
Due to a sold out concert last November, there will be two shows this spring.
Saturday May 3 and Sunday May 4
First Unitarian Universalist Church
93 W. Weisheimer Rd. in the Clintonville neighborhood
Doors open at 6:30pm for both concerts, which will begin promptly at 7:00.
The venue is handicap accessible and the concerts will be interpreted for the hearing impaired.
About half of all waters in the United States are too polluted for swimming, fishing, or drinking.
That, according to advocates, is why we need the Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights, a new law which was introduced into the New York legislature by Assemblyman Patrick Burke (District 142) on March 19th.
Sunday, April 27, 11am-7pm
Scioto Audubon Metro Park, 400 W Whittier St, Columbus, OH 43215
Celebrate making a difference in the environment in Central Ohio at the Earth Day Columbus Celebration presented by Green Columbus. This free, family-friendly event is zero-waste and brings together fun and opportunities to learn more about and support a green Central Ohio community.
Donation-Based Yoga Class with Zen Yoga 10am-10:45am, Performance Dogs of Ohio 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, Children’s Activities 11am-5pm , Bands, Vendors, Food Trucks & Beverages: 11am-7pm
We need some extra volunteer help to keep things running smoothly throughout the day!
Tasks during your volunteer shift may include:
As the Circuit Courts and Supreme Court are increasingly called upon to correct immigration injustices, people are starting to realize that the U.S. immigration courts do not operate with independence and fairness.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 6:00 PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Hilltop Branch Library, 511 Hague Ave., room 1, Columbus.
Columbus neighborhood historians and environmentalists you are invited! Will discuss effect of LinkUs on historic buildings and on the environment along the proposed corridors. Required public notice about federally required historic review and environmental impacts were not mentioned to public in numerous meetings citywide. Adverse effects on environment and historical buildings bus were not advertised. COTA/City were selling the project to the public for a “yes” vote November 2024.
Please RSVP to communityimprovement614@gmail.com by April 20 at 5:00 PM.
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule).
The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries. In the eighteenth century, European nations, governed by kings, princes, and other wealthy hereditary elites, usually provided a contrast to the more unruly, less hidebound new nation, where some Americans even had the vote.
Even so, the overwhelming majority of Americans didn’t have the vote, which was largely confined to property-owning or tax-paying white males―about 6 percent of the U.S. population in 1789. Women (comprising about 50 percent of the population) were, with very few exceptions, denied voting rights. And slaves (about 18 percent of the population) lacked both voting rights and citizenship.
After over a month of withholding information surrounding public investments in Israeli Bonds, the Franklin County Treasurer’s Office finally released the county investment reports for February and March of 2025. These reports, alongside discussion at the meeting of the Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) on April 17, 2025, confirmed that Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan has decided not to reinvest holdings from Israeli Bonds that matured on February 1, 2025 into additional Israeli Bonds.
What’s it like to be the wife of a leader who forces you to live in his shadow and ignores your political advice? The President’s Wife answers that question with its feminism-informed biography of former French first lady Bernadette Chirac.
But don’t expect a sober-minded piece of historical revisionism. The film, directed and co-written by Lea Domenach, refuses to take itself too seriously, and it’s clear from the first scene that we shouldn’t, either.
As Bernadette (the legendary Catherine Deneuve) makes her way to a confessional booth for a heart-to-heart with her priest, the church choir informs us that what we’re about to see is based only loosely on reality. In fact, the singers warn us, it’s a “work of fiction.”
Still, it’s hard not to hope that what follows is least partly true, because it’s a delicious story of self-reinvention and political comeuppance.