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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…
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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)…
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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…
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City of Columbus: Serve the People or Get Out of Our Way
When the City of Columbus apparatus (government) does respond to massive calls for systemic, progressive change, it does its best to do so in the most superficial, and often in the most hypocritical and insulting way possible. …
// Opinion