Columbus Freepress Local News & Events
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The Free Press to honor Cynthia Brown at Awards Dinner
The Free Press is honoring Cynthia Brown of the Ohio Coalition To End Qualified Immunity with our annual “Libby” Award at a ceremony Thursday, November 9. Cynthia Brown is a regular speaker at the Free Press salons and championed as a Free Press…
// Opinion
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Ginther Continues to Mislead About His Priorities
After I exposed Ginther’s habitual hollow phrase, “Our top three priorities are neighborhoods, neighborhoods, neighborhoods” at my press conference on Thursday (Columbus Dispatch, October 27, 2023, “Motil Questions Ginther’s support for…
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Book Review -- The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church By Rachel L. Swarns
I grew up in a church-going family. In fact, for my entire life we either lived next door or one street over from Hilltop United Methodist Church. In 1976, I converted to Catholicism. I grew up down the street from St. Aloysius Catholic Church,…
// Opinion
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Busting Myths -- A major huge university versus its students, neighbors, and their city: The Ohio State University
Today’s news overflows with concerns about the cost and benefits—“is college worth it?”--about higher education itself, its price, public vs. private, preparation of both students and professors, on the one hand, and fears about the maturation of…
// Opinion