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ColumbusMediaInsiderPoliticalOutsider: Political Tide Is Volatile 2 Weeks Out
Ryan Takeover Seen As Last Resort
Before I share the scripts I promised last week of video ads designed to turn Ohio voters in the direction of Nan Whaley and the other statewide candidates, I wish to comment on the recently reported turn…
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Giving the ole’ cold shoulder to your base?
Both African Americans and progressives in Ohio are wondering if throwing a football at a TV screen is the Tim Ryan blunder which makes Ohio even more MAGA?
Tim Ryan’s most widely-recognized TV commercial to date – smashing a football into…
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Bonnie Raitt At A Heartfelt Peak
Above all, one golden attribute renders our species worth saving: a capacity for compassion, to see the world through another’s eyes, and to feel it with a shared heart.
It’s the rare empathetic genius whose music can evoke, exalt and…
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Book Review: Alabama v King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams and Fred Gray with David Fisher
During my decades-long teaching career, I have found that one of the reasons students shy away from history classes is they are afraid they will be forced to “memorize all those dates.” One pair of dates that they had tp grapple with sought to…
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