Columbus Freepress Local News & Events
Mary Jane’s Guide: Three Rants
Sometimes you just have to speak your mind.
Rant #1. The Cleveland Clinic and fake news. It is well known that the vaunted Cleveland Clinic derides medical marijuana. Dr. Paul Terpeluk, Medical Director of Cleveland Clinic…
Toledo Voters Enact Lake Erie Bill of Rights
TOLEDO, OH: Fifty years after the media infamously declared “Lake Erie is dead,” Toledo voters recognize that Lake Erie and its entire ecosystem is very much alive – and as such, Lake Erie has the right to exist, flourish, and…
Book Review: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
My students often say to me that they aren’t clear what they should be highlighting when they are reading their texts or primary source documents. I had a similar thought when I was reading A More Beautiful and Terrible History; I wanted to…
Proposed Community Reinvestment Area “Favors” Developers and Gentrification
COLUMBUS, OH – Joe Motil, candidate for Columbus City Council attended today’s public hearing at City Hall that was held by Councilwoman Shayla Favor for a proposed designated Kenny & Henderson Community Reinvestment Area (CRA). The CRA was…