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Busting Myths: A citizen vs. Louis DeJoy and his crippling of the U.S. Postal Service
For more than 18 months I have suffered failing service from the U.S. Postal Service. Beginning with Donald Trump’s appointment of the unqualified campaign contributor Louis DeJoy, who also invests heavily in competing delivery services, my…
Columbus Worker Protest at Sen. Portman Office on Ohio Job Cuts
Dozens of Ohio General Electric workers protested Wednesday, March 23, about job cuts recently announced that impact nearly 200 local workers in the Central Ohio region. These GE workers, who are union members…
Ohio Debate Commission: No inkling that Ryan will back out of debate with Harper, Johnson
The Ohio Debate Commission, a nonprofit created in 2018 to facilitate debates among candidates vying for the highest statewide offices, says that US Rep. Tim Ryan’s condition that all US Senate Democratic candidates be on stage during the…
From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don’t Justify Each Other
Russia’s war in Ukraine -- like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter. For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White House are willing to rely on similar precepts: Might makes right…