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2021: The Year 2020 Pretty Much Kept Going

There’s been plenty to be grateful for in 2021, but like many things in our American democratic republic, the wheels of progress move slow and 2020 kept its claws dug into the year that followed it. Frankly, we should have known this was going to…

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Columbus Police did a sloppy job handling the kidnapping and murder of Imam Mohamed Adam

The Columbus Police Department (CPD) did a sloppy job handling the kidnapping and murder of Imam Mohamed Adam.


The family of the Somali Imam Mohamed Hasan Adam is unable to pay respect for their son and bury his remains properly after he…

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Harvey J Graff

Busting Myths: How conservative opinion writers fail their readers

Note: area readers are aware that the local “daily newspaper” is no longer either daily or a newspaper. Following USA Today/Gannett, the Columbus Dispatch does not publish on Dec. 24 or 25, 31 or Jan. 1 (as well as Thanksgiving or Labor Day).…

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Mary Jane’s Guide: CannaNews You Can Use – December 2021

Courage – Year in review – Statute to SoS – MMCP expansion – Give!


Selected bites of fresh cannabis news sliced from the headlines, with a legislative flavor and sweet Ohio twist. Sources are linked.


Courage…

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