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Fever for profit may have left Wexner Medical Center unprepared for coronavirus
Back in March when The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center set up a makeshift Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donation center to supply its frontline healthcare workers, fear swept through the hospital’s staff. Would they have enough…
Coronavirus is 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and 2008 Financial Crisis Combined
As the effects of coronavirus still ravage the globe, many people have noted that this is the fourth major crisis of the 21st century. Some even say that coronavirus is a composition of all our most recent crises combined. After all,…
ColumbusMediaInsider: Dispatch's Early Deadline Turns Off Print Readers, May Hasten Demise
The Columbus Dispatch appears bound and determined to break the daily newspaper reading habit in central Ohio.
First, management keeps jacking up the price of home delivery and single copies of the print product.
Second, the…
Portsmouth Conversion Facility to Make Depleted Uranium for Warfare
On January 23, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced they were approving a “fourth line of production” at the Mid America Conversion facility. Mid America is located on the 4,000-acre Portsmouth Nuclear Site at Piketon, Ohio. …