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Busting Myths: My ongoing struggles for responsibility from the City of Columbus
My struggles to gain democratic legal rights and respect for residents in the “city” of Columbus continue. The three documents reprinted here below elaborate the themes of my recent essays. To expand the discussion to a larger public, I include…
City Council & Ginther Continue to Deprive Thousands of Affordable Housing Opportunities
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who has been circulating petitions to run for mayor in the 2023 May primary election stated that, “City Council and Mayor Ginther have not spent one dime of the…
Book Review: Watergate’s Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman by Adam Henig
This past June 17 was the fiftieth anniversary of the break in of the Watergate Hotel. A surfeit of books have been written about this sorry episode in American history; indeed, two new ones have been published in the last few months. However,…
Petric's Comfest Music Review: The Neal Show
Two years of death and disease and no live music---I hardly recognize myself. Thus it was Comfest '22 gently re-immersed this battered, drifting soul into the mildly healing waters of outdoor song-and-jamfestival-born. Better that way, among the…