Skip to main content

Columbus Freepress Local News & Events

Image
Columbus City Hall

Busting Myths – You can’t sue City Hall, can you? But we should educate the public and use the ballot box: That’s the American Way, if not the Columbus Way

There is truth in the old saying that “you can’t sue City Hall”—especially with any likelihood of either winning more than your costs or winning at all. That’s what attorneys who I’ve consulted tell me. This is true despite the fact that the “…

// Opinion
Image
Nan Whaley

ColumbusMediaInsiderPoliticalOutsider: Whaley Releases Biased Survey, Gets Carpet-Bombed By TV Ads

As predicted, Nan Whaley’s campaign is stuck in the mud having gained no ground and perhaps lost some to Mike DeWine in the three-and-a-half months after the May 3 primary. Only two-and-a-half months remain until the Nov. 8 election.

The…

// News
Image
988

Is 988 a joke in this town and Ohio?

Mental health, suicides and addiction were serious problems before the pandemic, and the fallout threw gas on a raging fire.

Thankfully, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS), with help from the federal…

// Opinion
Image

UK Pushes Mountain Destruction on Montenegro as Green Policy

For years now, the people of Montenegro have sought to protect the Sinjajevina mountain plateau from the destruction to be brought by creating a military training ground vastly larger than the entire military of Montenegro could ever use.…

// Opinion
Sign up for the Columbus Free Press email updates

Subscribe

Support The Columbus Free Press and help to sustain local independent journalism

Support OUR WORK

This Weeks Events

Event Type Icon
Community
Sat May9 9:00 am
Worthington Green on the Green

Experience Worthington

Event Type Icon
Protest/Rally
Sat May9 9:30 am
Hilliard Pop-Up Protest
Event Type Icon
Community
Sat May9 11:00 am
Feminist Reading Group.