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OSU’s cozy relationship with fossil fuel giant Marathon exposes climate hypocrisy

“Ohio’s nine of the top ten warmest and eight of its top ten wettest years have all occurred since 1990,” said OSU’s Vice President of Agricultural Administration, Cathann Kress.

Kress was speaking at OSU’s Earth Day event back in April,…

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Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths – The rights to read and write and to organize: Local roots of democracy and our historical moment

In the outpouring of reporting and opinion writing about today’s unprecedented campaigns for unconstitutional book banning and suppression of free speech, on the one hand, and locally-rooted, one shop at a time, unionization drives, on the other…

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Movie review: Resurrection

Margaret's (Rebecca Hall) life is in order. She's capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had hoped.…

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Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths: Is Columbus the corruption capital of a corrupt state? Mismanagement, no management, and corruption in the 2020s

As I continue my search for Columbus’ history and identity, I regularly rediscover the City’s and the city’s willful lack of the foundational elements for a modern city. I return to its absence of typical city reforms toward representative city…

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