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Hypocrites on Columbus City Council: Touting the Need for Public Education Yet Continuing to Hand Out Tax Abatements
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime outspoken critic of Mayor Ginther and City Council’s blanket tax abatement policies, once again blasted them at last night’s City Council meeting for approving of a $1.1 million 10-…
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The Exercise, a novel by Jef Benedetti - Serial 1
To America
Foreword
The idea of The Exercise – cooperation between the country’s two major political parties, on purpose, and why – is fiction, not fact.
Before any fact ever becomes a proven fact, it has a…
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Stand in Solidarity with Edith Espinal
On Thursday, February 18th, Edith Espinal will leave Columbus Mennonite Church, where she’s been living in sanctuary for more than three years, to meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. While ICE officials have assured…
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Pushing for Social Justice in Columbus suburbs? Proceed with caution
In a white-dominated Columbus old-money suburb, another left-leaning government official is being targeted by a secretive group with an obvious right-wing bent.
Expressing or acting on progressive views in one of Central Ohio’s suburbs can…
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