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St. James Christian Center is the place to be

Over the past few months, Mount Vernon Avenue on the city’s Near East side, has welcomed a new house of worship in the form of the St. James Christian Center located where Unity Baptist Church once sat. Previously located off of 161 in a shopping…

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The Sovereignty of the Ballot: Ohio’s Constitutional Stand Against Institutional Immunity

In the current political climate, the Fourth Estate must act as more than a witness; we must serve as a digital powerhouse for transparency and a guardian of constitutional fidelity. As federal civil rights protections are systematically rolled…

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Data centers are breaking Ohio's grid. The proof has been sitting in a public document since January

This article first appeared here

This is not the conclusion of an environmental group or a community activist. This is what the grid operator wrote in its own planning document.

PJM Interconnection publishes an independent load…

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Birds eye view of data center

Ohio waved through hundreds of data centers. Now a new report says Ohioans are paying the price — and breathing the exhaust

This article first appeared here.

While Amazon builds data centers next to elementary schools and American Electric Power (AEP) scrambles to keep the lights on, Ohio has spent a decade making it nearly impossible to build the one thing that…

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