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Movie Review: R.M.N.
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi (Mark Edward Blenyesi), left for too long…
Can planting 500,000 more trees save Columbus from becoming Los Angeles?
When the relatively unheard of IQAir released its annual “World Air Quality” report earlier this year, it found the “most polluted major U.S. city was Columbus, Ohio.”
Equally alarming and unbecoming is how IQAir said Columbus has a high…
Lawless, Unsafe, and Dirty: The Dying University District
I live in a 110-year-old house on a corner lot in the historic but public- and private-destroyed University District (UD) of Columbus. The area is unsafe, filthy, in disrepair, and unpoliced by the City of Columbus, Ohio State University (OSU)…
HJR 1: The Ohio GOPs attempt to Set the Status Quo in Concrete
Recent weeks have seen several stories of states seeking to silence legislators going against the powers that be. The expulsion of two lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature advocating for gun control efforts was followed by a session-long ban…