Skip to main content

Columbus Freepress Local News & Events

Image

Drop-off factor in Election Data Raises Questions About 2024 Election Results

This is a press release from Smart Elections, published on Substack and elsewhere- editor.

New York, New York - - As electors in each state are voting for President and Vice President today, SMART Elections, a nonpartisan organization…

// News, Opinion
Image
Phil Ochs

Phil-a-thon #11

Thursday, December 19, 6-9pm
Dick's Den, 2417 N. High Street

We will celebrate the 84th birthday of the the great singer/songwriter and activist Phil Ochs with an evening of his music performed by acts from the Columbus Ohio area. Phil…

// Opinion
Image
Mayor Ginther

When it Comes to Justice, Political Partisanship is Alive and Well in Franklin County

After nearly one year to the day when a signed agreement was made between City Attorney Zach Klein and the Whitehall City Attorney’s office for Whitehall to investigate Mayor Ginther’s exparte communication with Judge Stephanie Mingo, Whitehall…

// News
Image
ICE arresting someone

Fear and loathing in Columbus’s immigrant community (in English y an Espanol)

leer en español

The Mayor’s Office has never officially called Columbus a sanctuary city, but unofficially since 2017 conservatives and MAGA have attacked it as such. This was the year of new immigrant friendly policies enacted by the…

// News
Sign up for the Columbus Free Press email updates

Subscribe

Support The Columbus Free Press and help to sustain local independent journalism

Support OUR WORK

This Weeks Events

Event Type Icon
Community
Wed Feb25 3:30 pm
Underground Railroad in Central Ohio
Event Type Icon
Meeting
Wed Feb25 6:00 pm
Can I Get a Witness? How to Testify at the Ohio Statehouse