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Glenn and Peggysue

Mary Jane’s Guide: Cannabis on Probation

First, heartfelt thank you goes out to Mercer County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Ingraham for answering prayers for leniency. Wisdom, kindness, compassion. Justice as it should be.


There’s a story here, one that winds through small town…

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OSU Wants to Start Burning Fracked Gas in Columbus, and Has the Audacity to Say It’ll Help the Environment

Recently I've become aware that OSU wants to build a new power plant that runs on fracked gas, and it's got me pretty angry both as a student and as a taxpayer. I’m a third-year undergraduate student at OSU's School of Food, Agricultural, and…

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Man being arrested

Columbus police now using “phantom” warrants against activists to break movement

Activists have been under heavy surveillance through body cams, street cameras and their social media, and many were explicitly targeted for arrest while on downtown streets over the previous several weeks, but Columbus police have entered a new…

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People at eviction court

Summer on the brink: Evictions on the rise in the pandemic fallout

“Five days isn’t enough time,” said a tearful Latosha Aaron-Gavin outside the temporary eviction courtroom at the Columbus Convention Center on a recent overcast morning. 


The judge, while holding up the bright orange five-day set-out…

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