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John Petric's Comfest Music Review #3: Terrapin Moon
Terrapin Moon came on after the white-hot fireballs known as Electric Orange Peel (should say 'Atomic' Orange Peel). A Grateful Dead cover/tribute band whose version of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider was spot-on, the mournful Rider…
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Police Officers' trials a farce: FOP sent flowers to lead special prosecutor after she fainted in courtroom
The criminal trials against three Columbus police officers for their actions during the 2020 summer protests has, some activists believe, turned farcical and (once again) shows how the Division and its union act in an autonomous and defiant way…
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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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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…
// Opinion