Columbus Freepress Local News & Events
7 days in … a Spin
Much of the news generated by those paid to represent us this week came in the form of the executive branch’s revolving door of staff. Some were fired, some were hired, and some are working with a guillotine blade hanging over them. As bad as the…
Ohio needs paper ballots – not new voting machines
Ohio’s decision to buy new voting machines will make the difference between hackable -- or less-hackable elections.
Let’s begin by stating the obvious: All computer voting machines can be hacked!
We remember when Ohioans witnessed…
Tom Steyer Event in Columbus: The need to impeach
Trump’s leadership is equivalent to environmental destruction. I’ve been posting #ImpeachTrumpNow after every environmental Trump decision. His immediate order to green light the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Standing Rock Sioux Nation,…
Book Review: In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher
In the Midnight Hour chronicles two parallel tracks of twentieth century African American history: the Great Migration, when 1.75 million African Americans left the rural south for the urban north from 1910 through 1940, and the story of the…