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Piketon Town Hall on Contamination, Cancer and Death
Piketon’s Town Hall will be a big deal for the community of Piketon, Ohio, which for 70 years has been suffering the effects of radioactive contamination from the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS), 4 miles south of the village.
The…
// Opinion
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Marijuana Legalization Advocates Are the Majority. It’s Time We Act Like It.
70 percent of Amercans across party lines believe that marijuana should be legal. "Yet far too often, lawmakers choose to either ignore this constituency or treat them with outright hostility," Paul says. "In Ohio, GOP lawmakers in the…
// News, Opinion
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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