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It's time to repeal House Bill 6 now

This article first appeared in the Ohio Capitol Journal.


When the controversial nuclear bailout bill known as HB6 first reached the Ohio House floor in 2019, only a handful of Ohioans truly knew what it was and what was in it. This “…

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Law You Can Use: Civil Rights - Your Rights During a Traffic Stop

Today, many people are feeling discouraged at the state of relations with law enforcement. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the most common reason a person has an encounter with the police is in a traffic stop – and traffic stops…

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Why do Huntington Bank and Nationwide finance Issue 2, but not officially endorse it?

A group of locally-based, high-profiled corporations are financially backing the Issue 2 campaign – for a civilian review board of the Columbus Police – but when asked whether they would officially endorse it publicly, or encourage their…

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New documentary Fish in a Barrel details allegations of NRA’s broken election laws, Russian relationships, and lavish lifestyles of executives

Released in time for the election, Fish in a Barrel is an exposé of how the NRA’s history of alleged campaign violations have stymied popular efforts to make even modest reforms on access to firearms, despite hundreds of mass shootings…

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