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“Can You Handle the Truth?” New Book Features Voices of Dissent and Radical Solutions

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is proud to announce the publication of “Can You Handle the Truth? Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right- Relationships with the Earth and Each Other.” 

It…

// Opinion
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Mayor Ginther and Joe Motil

Columbus cannot survive another term of Andy Ginther – a 2025 “Golden Padlock Award” finalist

Ever since the ending of my 2023 campaign for mayor, I continue to be asked if I will run for mayor again in 2027. My reply has been, “In politics you never say never. I am currently in a wait-and-see mode. The election is two years away.”

// Opinion
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Why Trump, the “Peacemaker,” Can’t Secure Peace

In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even…

// News
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Walter Cronkite

News “professionals” choose profit over public interest—again

Original Sin How About Original Spin? WOW!!! There are no words- Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson you had one job!! In a time when 64% of Americans report having "not very much" or "no trust at all" in the media according to the Pew…

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