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Joe Motil

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…

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Harvey J Graff

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…

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Book cover

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…

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Nuke plant

Why Only Numbskulls Love New Nukes

A Nuclear Nightmare Bill 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has introduced S.4064 - International Nuclear Energy Act of 2022. Designed to spread American nuclear technology internationally and end prohibition on foreign ownership of…

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