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ColumbusMediaInsider: Dispatch Takes Mandel To Woodshed, Goes Easy On Kasich's Tax $$ Waste

The Japanese hedge fund-owned Columbus Dispatch is trying very hard to get back in touch with its old family-owned crazy. The experiment with being even-handed and rational in its news and editorial page policies is apparently at an end…

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2017 election upsets? Can Yes We Can beat the machine?

Columbus is a city where an authoritarian Democratic Party machine holds firm control over all city politics, backed by the checkbooks of their suburban millionaire and billionaire allies, like Les Wexner and Ron Pizzuti. The Republican…

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Why is Ron O’Brien So Anxious To Kill a Crippled Old Man?

Ohio plans to execute Alva Campbell on November 15, 2017, in revenge for his 1997 murder of Charles Dials, a crime to which Campbell confessed and pled guilty. However, the person Alva Campbell is today is not the same person he was when he…

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DAMNING QUOTE: Columbus City Council member and former Safety Director Mitchell Brown proclaimed at a candidate’s night that Columbus doesn’t need a civilian review board to monitor the police since the…

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Protest/Rally
Tue Apr21 4:00 pm
Worthington Rush Hour Rally
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Protest/Rally
Tue Apr21 4:30 pm
Support Veterans Rush Hour Rally.
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Meeting
Wed Apr22 11:30 am
Ohio’s Data Center Debate

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