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Honoring Ohio’s Transgender Community
Right around the height of the COVID-19 global pandemic, I lost hope. I saw the worst of us on display during that time. I looked in horror upon the anti-vaxxing, anti-masking, privileged, blatantly racist, proudly ignorant population, and I lost…
// Opinion
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Statement: Governor DeWine’s legacy: The execution of higher education
With a heavy heart, the Ohio Student Association mourns for our universities. In the late afternoon of Friday, March 28, Governor Mike DeWine killed higher education in the state of Ohio by signing the universally detested Senate Bill 1…
// Opinion
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As Nuke Power Dies, Lithium Must Not Be the New Plutonium
Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power.
But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall…with clear ways around it that demand attention.
Humankind’s 400+ licensed large commercial…
// News, Opinion
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Franklin County Treasurer’s Office Dodges Questions on Israeli Bonds
As Israel expands conflicts in the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria, and resumes the genocide in Gaza, in part due to the Trump administration’s expressed desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza, questions remain about the…
// Opinion