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ComFest Returns to Goodale Park
Community Festival (ComFest) kicks off Friday, June 24 at noon in Goodale Park.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, ComFest is back live and will feature over 150 musical performances, workshops and community-oriented programming…
Police Officer Mismanagement, Sacrificing Neighborhood Safety & Wasted Tax Dollars
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who has begun circulating petitions to run for Mayor in the 2023 May primary election stated that, “I attended the city’s promise to bulldoze the homeless camp at…
Busting Myths – The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents
Part One (of Four)
Unlike those of any other U.S. city of its size, and certainly its slogan-dominated, boosterish aspirations, residents of Columbus have few legal rights and fewer ethical democratic rights. I write as a privileged member…
Book Review: Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
For all her decades of experience in politics and the ways of Washington, D.C., nothing had prepared Lady Bird Johnson for the role of First Lady. She and her husband were elevated to their offices under the worst circumstances imaginable. On the…