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Mayor Ginther’s State of the City Address Lacks Housing Solutions and Opportunities

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who is strongly considering running for mayor in 2023, states that, “Mayor Ginther’s state of the city address painted a rosy picture of Columbus but rather than '…

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Comfest Updates 2022

Community Festival, aka ComFest, is gearing up to celebrate its 50th year come June 24-26, 2022, once again gathering at Goodale Park in the Short North. Before then, there are lots of ways to get involved: 



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OMG, War Is Kind of Horrible

For decades, the U.S. public seemed largely indifferent to most of the horrible suffering of war. The corporate media outlets mostly avoided it, made war look like a video game, occasionally mentioned suffering U.S. troops, and once in a blue…

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Wild West of American cannabis? Welcome to Ohio’s new marijuana frontier

Ohio is on the verge of making marijuana fully legal, but no surprise is the unlucky timing for proponents. Stuck in purgatory in the Ohio Statehouse is a proposed citizen-initiated statute which will make marijuana legal for adults 21 and over…

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