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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
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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
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Lt. McFadden wins lawsuit: “It sends an important message that discrimination and retaliation are not acceptable”
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
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City to bulldoze South Side tent camp Tuesday morning
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