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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:
Applications for project…
Applications for project…
// Opinion
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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…
// Opinion
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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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Busting Myths: Ohio State University versus “campus safety”
The Ohio State University strikes out again. From evidence-free slogans to an ordered, bought, and delivered “consultant’s report” to Campus unSafety non-Alerts and Campus unSafety Officers, who are inactive and lack direction. Note the…
// Opinion