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An Open Letter to Franklin County Prosecutor G. Gary Tyack

Columbus activists submitted the following letter to Tyack’s office on Thursday

Dear Mr. Tyack:

On October 12th of 2022, 36-year-old Krieg Butler Sr. mercilessly shot Sinzae Reed, 13, in the Wedgewood Apartment Complex multiple times…

// News
Wexner Medical Center

Busting Myths- The Ohio State University: Not “a failed presidency,” by itself, but a failing university

Harvey J. Graff

Author’s note: occasionally in Columbus and especially by OSU football fans, I am alleged to be anti-OSU. Nothing could be farther than the truth—I strive since 2004 for students, faculty colleagues, and highly qualified staff, none of…

// Opinion
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Movie Review: Framing Agnes

Gregory Mann

Agnes (Zackary Drucker), the pioneering, pseudonymized transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history. In this rigorous cinematic exercise that…

// Opinion
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Year in Review 2022 and 2023 Forward

FLEX ANON aka Mr. Wes

2023 allows all to decide the future. We defeated Covid, inflation, and attempts at inducing fascism from inflation.

I'm still amazed at the year Columbus, Ohio ended up with, while turbulence existed after our nation decided a higher…

// Opinion
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