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Nina Turner’s Loss Is Oligarchy’s Gain
The race for a vacant congressional seat in northeast Ohio was a fierce battle between status quo politics and calls for social transformation. In the end, when votes were counted Tuesday night, transactional business-as-usual had won by almost 6…
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Infrastructure bill—with largest investments ever in HSR, Amtrak, transit—moves forward
On Wednesday, the Biden administration and a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators announced an agreement on details of a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package, which includes $550 billion in new federal investments. Later in the day, the Senate…
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The Division of Light and Power, By Dennis J. Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich was a hero of mine.
His newly released book, The Division of Light and Power (Finney Avenue Books), is all about how he became a hero to me nearly five decades ago when he was first a Cleveland City Councilman and then, for…
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Matt Borges Called the Bexley Police on Me for Trespassing While I Was in LA
This column was first published in The Rooster.
I don’t know much about legal matters because I’ve tried avoiding them for most of my life, but one term I know thanks to watching Murder, She Wrote is “alibi.” It’s pretty straight…
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