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Lt. McFadden with her fist in the air

Lt. McFadden wins lawsuit: “It sends an important message that discrimination and retaliation are not acceptable”

The Free Press Staff

Columbus Police Lieutenant Melissa McFadden – whose book “Walking The Thin Black Line” exposed how the Division retaliated against her as she sought to make change from within – has won her federal racial discrimination suit against the City of…

// Opinion
Bulldozer taking down a houseless encampment

City to bulldoze South Side tent camp Tuesday morning

The Free Press Staff

Hundreds of Columbus residents who have been living in tents and other makeshift shelters – community members who cannot afford traditional housing – have been evicted by the City of Columbus. More evictions of tent camps utilizing bulldozers are…

// News
Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths -- How the Harvard Business School and the Columbus Way attempt to enrich each other: Lessons in the promiscuous relationships between Columbus’ private interests and an elite university’s profiteering

Harvey J. Graff and Bob Eckhart

Unknown to many residents of Columbus is the curious one-sided relationship between a small revenue-generating, non-academic element of the prestigious Harvard Business School, and certain elements of Columbus’ aspirational self-appointed,…

// Opinion
Image from salon video

Peace and democracy discussion at the June Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon

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The salon was available on Facebook Live as well.

The theme for the June 2022 Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon was Peace and Democracy: Do We Have Either? And the inspiration for some of the discussion was the…

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