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Solar News This Week-January 18, 2026
Global EV Sales Rose 20 percent in 2025
Last year global electric vehicle adoption grew by 20 percent. There was significant growth in every major region except for North America, according to the research firm Rho Motion. Global consumers…
Students drive off Border Patrol from OSU Career Fair
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Ohio State University ignored community and student demands that the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol be banned from the January 20 Career Fair on campus. So, students showed up and drove the DHS…
War and Peace
Irony is lost on President Trump but is a necessity for the rest of us. Today’s headlines feature yet another grievance from Trump about his failure to win a Nobel Prize in 2025 for his totally false claim of having ended eight wars around the…
Texas Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy’s Latest Deal Shows How He’d Treat Ohio: Strip It for Parts
A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.
Strive Capital, a firm…
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