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Ohio Senate passes budget containing slate of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks
This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame.
The Ohio Senate has passed their version of the state’s two-year budget and left intact all of the anti-LGBTQ+ provisions passed by the House.
The version that the Senate passed…
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All aboard! Everybody Knows celebrates the Railroad
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate trains, especially older songs about trains when they really meant something! Listen to Trains Kept-a Rollin, Love Train, Downtown Train, Hobo Lullaby, Freight Train, Choo Choo Ch-Boogie and more!
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New book release: Navigation - in these uncertain times
Navigation – in these uncertain times, A Book of Poetry by Michael Eckhardt Sr., just released by the Free Press/CICJ Books, is a compilation of free verse and haiku that will move and inspire the Free Press reader. Many of Michael’s poems…
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Columbus Residents Strike Back Against “Liquidation of the Right to Local Self-Determination”
What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed?
That’s the question facing residents of Ohio. In 2019, the State legislature prohibited communities from enacting “rights of nature…
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