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The ComFest 2020 Logo Contest is OPEN

Artists, designers and anyone who wants to be a part of ComFest history, start your pens.


It’s ComFest Logo Design season again, and we need your artistic vision for the 2020 program guide, volunteer T-shirt, and beer mug designs. Each…

// Opinion
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Don’t leave us behind (once again) says East Side

The East Side of Columbus – where the Columbus we know now was essentially born – has been much maligned during this modern era. No doubt calls for improvement have been echoing for some time.


The city has done plenty to facilitate the…

// News
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Mayor Ginther: Why did you have Black activists arrested for peaceful protest at the MLK Breakfast?

Martin Luther King Jr: “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”


January should have been a month to celebrate new beginnings and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Instead, in…

// Opinion
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On the Commemoration of the anniversary of the Greensboro 4

Staement from the Columbus Freedom Coalition:


The Google Doodle today honors the Greensboro Four, African American students in North Carolina who took a stand against racial injustice by staging a sit-in at a Woolworth’s counter. As you…

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