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Homeland Security at ComFest secures Ice Cream and arrests photographer

They wandered and they loitered. They appeared to shop. They ate ice cream. They hung around for much of the day by political booths including the Spore Infoshop, an anarchist bookstore and community space, and the Ohio Rights Group, an…

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Successful lawsuit exposes bureaucrats and lobbyists betraying employers in Ohio’s Workers’ Compensation System




 


In May Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County upheld a common pleas court’s decision ordering the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”) to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to up to 264,000…

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Boy holds sign that says Don't Shoot

From Ferguson to Columbus: Police shootings second highest in the wild, wild midwest





Did you ever wonder where Columbus ranks in police shootings? We’re Number Two among the major cities in the United States. Only Las Vegas police officers kill more citizens per capita than Columbus.


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