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“A community all-ages mixer”: Community, History, Jazz, and Food in Columbus
Along with a few dozen Columbus-area residents of diverse age, occupation, gender, and race, my wife and I delighted in the monthly First Things event on Saturday, March 18.
Sponsored by Four Seasons City Farm—“one organization, many…
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Is it time for S.B. 9?
The THC. Testing. Taxes. Testimony. Timeline.
There was a time, back in days of yore, when Ohio patients felt lucky to have just one medical marijuana bill introduced every other year, one in each of the General Assembly’s two-year sessions…
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Book Review: The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever by Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth
In 1978 the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a case about affirmative action in higher education. It opined that colleges and universities could not use race as an exclusive…
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Busting Myths: How can a city with no history destroy its history? The Columbus Way
Columbus, Ohio is the United States’ oldest and largest city that lacks both identity and history. By history, I mean a tradition of serious, researched, and documented historical writing by trained professionals, with or without advanced degrees…
// Opinion