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University bragging rights: OSU whimpers but doesn’t bite or swallow
In a continuing series of explorations, I probe US universities and especially the example of The Ohio State University’s sloganeering, marketing, and self-promotion, most recently in “The OSU Way: Slogans Over Truth and Honesty in Graduation…
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Now is the time to write opposition to Ohio’s nuclear subsidy bill
Ohio House Bill 434 has passed the House. Proponent testimony will be heard in the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee on Nov. 29, 2022. It is likely that opposition testimony will be held the following Tuesday, Dec. 6, with a vote…
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River of Turkeys - Ohio is a Hoot: The Real Meaning of the State’s Name
I’m looking right now at the Ohio River, that great and beautiful stream whose name is said to mean just that, in poetry and on place mats. But has anyone heard that explanation and seriously believed it? Perhaps many Ohioans do believe it, and…
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The U.S. Has Put Six Worse Things Than the World Cup in Qatar
Here’s a video of John Oliver denouncing FIFA for putting the World Cup in Qatar, a place that uses slavery and abuses women and abuses LGBT people. It’s a video about how everyone else glosses over nasty truths. Oliver drags in Russia as a past…
// Opinion