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Save Ohio Parks files emergency stay to delay fracking bid approval
The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) will meet Monday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m.-but a Franklin County judge may stay its decisions to award oil and gas bids to frack Salt Fork State Park and Valley Run and Zepernick wildlife areas.…
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“Zone In Columbus” may “Zone Out” South Side residents
When it comes to the last boomtown in the Midwest, certain Columbus neighborhoods make for unusual destinations for future residents to call home. And at first glance, the Far South Side near the Great Southern Shopping Plaza doesn’t seem like a…
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Book Review - Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae is the son of a white woman and a black man. In order to save Shane from the indignity and evils of being reared by his father, his mother’s parents kidnapped him when the boy was three years old. Surprisingly–but perhaps not given…
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Busting Myths - Columbus, Ohio: Lost and Forgotten, Even at Home?
Suggestion to Ohio State University:
To pay for owing the former basketball coach $13 million for firing him with years remaining on his contract (and not waiting a few weeks until the season ends), sell the president’s house in…
// Opinion