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Coalition of students and alumni lead protest at Board Member Ragland’s House
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CPDoutofCCS (Columbus Police Department out of Columbus City Schools) and its supporters are gathering once again as students demand the end to policing in their schools in the…
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…
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…