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Ohio AG Yost is “personally sabotaging” the citizen-led initiative to end qualified immunity

As police violence continues against Ohioans, the Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity (OCTEQI) believes the only way to end police violence is to change policy. And the only way to change the policy that allows police violence is by putting…

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Speak up for injustice

I’ve watched the developing protests around our nation, here in Columbus,
with a feeling that some things just haven't changed.

Fifty-four years ago I’d gotten off work, was at the Neil Avenue entrance to OSU,
watching a small,…

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LaRose Fails to Fix Voter Purge Problems Before Readying Next Round of Voter Cancellations

State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today responded to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s plans for another statewide voter purge clouded in darkness that will happen two weeks before voting in the upcoming presidential…

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Book Review: The Normal Exception: Life Stories, Reflections, and Dreams from Prison by Rocco Di Pietro

Rocco Di Pietro’s The Normal Exception: Life Stories, Reflections, and Dreams from Prison is an outcome of the author’s ten years of teaching college courses to prison inmates in New York, Ohio, and California.

A thoughtful observer, Di…

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