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Proud Boy getting ready to punch a woman a a protest

Multiple right-wing groups planning Ohio Statehouse protest on Jan 6th

The Proud Boys in their bee-suits with mass-shooter guns slung over shoulders will be at the Ohio Statehouse on January 6, 2024 to commemorate the US Capitol insurrection, this according to the Ohio Right Watch of Cleveland, which is “keeping an…

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Busting Myths: There is no Columbus Dispatch; Columbus does not have a daily or a news-paper

I have received and read a daily printed newspaper since I was learning to read more than 70 years ago. I grew up with the print edition of the Sunday New York Times, and the daily morning Pittsburgh Post Gazette and afternoon Pittsburgh Press.…

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Sara's Song: Chapter 17

Every Secret Isn’t a Secret 

Richardson hadn’t interviewed one person who knew who Smooth really was in life. To the men he was just a “cool brother man” and to the women he showed Smooth’s picture too, he was “That’s…

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Ohio History Connection cancels Winter Solstice's "Lighting of the Serpent" once again

For several years now the winter solstice event at Serpent Mound, where candles or luminaries were placed so to outline the Native American effigy mound, has been canceled and this year will be no different.

Serpent Mound is within a…

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