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Jesse Vogel: Building A Progressive Coalition Around The Things That Matter
This year’s Columbus City Council race is a battle between grassroots progressives and well-heeled incumbents. Challenging the status-quo, Jesse Vogel is a Democrat running for Columbus City Council - District 7 against establishment darling…
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Tom Hayes, Associate Professor at Ohio University’s School of Film, Kidnapped by Israel Military in Illegal Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, “All the Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleen boats were pirated in the early hours of October 8, 2025.”
Among the crew on the flotilla…
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Privatizing the VA will be a disaster for Ohio's rural vets
James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active duty and four in the reserves, Jones says he has a “multitude” of health care problems.
“There’s PTSD, a right arm injury, my right shoulder, chronic rhinitis…
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Queen Mother Ann B. Walker: Columbus Has Lost a Legend, but Her Blueprint Lives On
On Sunday, October 5, 2025, Columbus would learn that afternoon the news that shook its soul: Queen Mother Ann B. Walker — broadcaster, journalist, community matriarch, civil rights trailblazer, and living archive of Black excellence — had joined…
// Opinion