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Assault’s aftermath puts interracial couple to the test

In 2020’s Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan plays a woman whose life has been forever changed by a sexual assault—a sexual assault that happened not to her, but to a friend who was too incapacitated to give consent.  


In Test…

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City Council Rewards Established Local Business with $981,723 Tax Abatement for Adding Two $15.00 an Hour Jobs

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime outspoken critic of Mayor Ginther and City Council’s blanket tax abatement policies once again criticized the Mayor and City Council for defunding public education and denying social…

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The Street Medic and the Mayor: Federal protester trial recounts desperation to put out raging fires

A street medic and Mayor Ginther testified Friday, February 26, in the federal protester civil rights suit against the City of Columbus and both recounted a similar storyline: their desperate attempt to put out a raging fire. For the street medic…

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ColumbusMediaInsider: Dear Liz, Rob, Tim And Amelia

Letters, I write letters ...


Dear Liz Walters, Ohio Democratic Party Chair:


You've been in office for more than a month now and nothing is happening.


Oh, you're meeting with loyal Democrats, reaching out to…

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