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Anti-DeWine PAC’s “Meet Mike DeSwine” Ad Hits TV This Week, “Tax Hike Mike” Ad to Go on Radio This Weekend

Just in time for the primary election on May 3, Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines is putting its quirky political ad “Meet Mike DeSwine” on TV news channels around Ohio this week, while the PAC’s second ad “Tax Hike Mike” will be heard on…

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Police shooting of Henry Green goes unpunished

Bringing back memories of the 1992 Rodney King trial, thirty years later almost to the day, a jury in Ohio’s federal court failed to convict the Columbus police officers guilty of 23-year-old Henry Green’s 2016 murder. In fact it was the second…

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Harvey Graff

How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic neighborhood

Part One

 

The shame of the city

 

What happened to the University District?

The area adjacent to The Ohio State University in the middle of Columbus, Ohio, was once a distinctive, mixed neighborhood of…

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Bus Stile Adventures

I don’t know if it’s supply and demand. I don’t know if it’s Covid. I don’t know if Trump, and his friends are waging economic sanctions within our country for criticizing the January 6th attack. I don’t know if someone wants to punish Chairman…

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