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Columbus Starbucks baristas vote unanimously for a union, as nationwide movement grows

Starbucks workers continue to win union organizing victories in stores across the country, as workers at the Worthington store overwhelmingly voted to join Starbucks Workers United. With a unanimous vote of 22-0, partners at Worthington…

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Houseless advocates say Columbus failed again during latest winter blast

On Tuesday night, a Free Press reporter was driving on 71 South and began descending the Greenlawn Avenue exit where the now shuttered Thurns’ butcher shop is directly to the right. As some know and often see, on the left side of the exit in a…

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Stoners’ Lament: Ohio GOP may divert legal recreational marijuana tax revenue to “Cop City”

It would be the ultimate stoner irony and hypocrisy. But according to one police brutality activist, fully legal recreational marijuana could someday pay for Ohio’s “Cop City,” which may be built somewhere in Central Ohio.

“It’s very likely…

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Young white woman smiling and Cheech and Chong

Stoners’ Lament: Ohio GOP may divert legal recreational marijuana tax revenue to “Cop City”

It would be the ultimate stoner irony and hypocrisy. But according to one police brutality activist, fully legal recreational marijuana could someday pay for Ohio’s “Cop City,” which may be built somewhere in Central Ohio.

“It’s very likely…

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