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Emergency Bulletin: The City of Columbus, OSU, and landlords against student tenants and homeowners dramatic case in point
On Wednesday, August 16, reportedly at 8:56 am, a multiple alarm fire erupted in a large student rental house at 1996 Iuka Ave in the heart of fraternity row in the historic residentially zoned University District. Ten student renters were…
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Rahm Emanuel Is Bragging About Turning Japan into a Warmaking Nation
Hey World War II fans, Rahm Emanuel has got some great news for YOU! He’s turning Japan into a warmaking country, and bragging about it.
Fun fact: the U.S. tried that before and it kind of backfired.
Funner fact: this is at least Rahm…
// Opinion
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New Picture Book Coming Soon! The Lincoln School Marchers of Hillsboro, OH
From 1954 to 1956, nineteen Black mothers and thirty-seven children in Hillsboro, Ohio marched daily from their homes to the segregated Webster Elementary School to demand Black students be allowed to enroll. The school for…
// Opinion
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Busting Myths: The Ohio Humanities Council v. the Humanities and Humanity
There is endless chatter about the “decline of,” “loss of interest in,” or “end of” the humanities among and about college students and the never defined “general public” for decades, perhaps ever since the vague term “the humanities” came into…
// Opinion