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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…
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Movie review: Resurrection
Margaret's (Rebecca Hall) life is in order. She's capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had hoped.…
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