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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…
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…
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…
ColumbusMediaInsider: 'Everywoman' Shearer Roars In OH-12
NEWS ITEM: Alaina Shearer, insurgent Democratic candidate for John Kasich's old Congressional seat (OH-12), caused shockwaves in Republican circles when she outraised her opponent U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson in the most recent reporting period.…