Skip to main content

Columbus Freepress Local News & Events

Image

Embracing the Complexity of Peace

“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.”

Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization Public Citizen, in response to the legislative efforts of Reps. Barbara Lee and…

// Opinion
Image
Joe Motil

Public Hearing and Investigation of AEP Officials

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who has begun circulating petitions to run for Mayor in the 2023 Mayoral primary election calls for an immediate public hearing and investigation into AEP’s claim…

// Opinion
Image
Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths: An open letter to Kenny McDonald, new head of the “Columbus Partnership”

Dear Kenny McDonald:

I write to you in your capacity as the new CEO of the self-proclaimed since 2002, Columbus Partnership.

Columbus Dispatch business reporter Mark Williams belatedly announced your ascension in January on June 10…

// Opinion
Image

McNamara’s Son on Some of His Father’s Lies About Vietnam

Pretty much anything that complicates the story of a person is a good corrective to the tendency to simplify and caricature. So, one has to welcome Craig McNamara’s book, Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam…

// 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
Protest/Rally
Mon Mar16 4:30 pm
Stop the Cruelty, Columbus

Indivisible Central Ohio

Event Type Icon
Meeting
Wed Mar18 12:00 pm
Ohio Environmental Council Action Briefing

Ohio Environmental Council

Event Type Icon
Community
Wed Mar18 6:30 pm
Knowledge is Power: Rural Revival in Ohio and America