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Political Bosses Continue to Influence City Hall
The Columbus Dispatch reported that city lobbyists and former Mayor Michael Coleman and former Columbus City Council President John Kennedy were both hired this past Spring by the Haslam Sports Group to help broker the new Crew Stadium deal. Joe…
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Mary Jane’s Guide: Activism: Love, bravery and overcoming injustice
What an honor! I am extremely proud to be named the 2019 recipient of the Free Press “Libby” Award for Community Activism. I’m guessing that such an accolade means that I know a thing or two about the subject matter, activism. So please allow me…
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ColumbusMediaInsider: Kasich May Be Behind Otterbein Debate
I can't help but speculate that none other than former Gov. John Kasich was behind the selection of Otterbein University as the site for the fourth Democratic Presidential Debate Oct. 15.
Columbus Business Firstreported that it was a…
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Book Review: Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison by Jacqueline L. Jackson
It must have been somewhat difficult to grow up as the namesake of one of the most prominent and controversial human rights leader in American history, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., and his wife, Jacqueline Brown. Yet the younger Jackson…
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