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

Abe Bonowitz

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…

// News
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Copwatch

Bob Fitrakis

 




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…

// Opinion
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Hale Diversity! OSU’s Urban Art Space

Wes Flexner

Upon entering the OSU Urban Art Space, you are greeted with a biography of Dr. Frank Hale and other culturally relevant icons.




Frank Hale worked at OSU from 1971-98. He was a man of many accolades, important jobs…

// Opinion
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Album review: the Salty Caramel's Baby Blues

Ed Forman

I first saw the Salty Caramels seven or eight years ago when the Columbus music scene was locked in the death grip of the Americana movement. There were three ladies in matching dresses, and (if memory serves) they sang a song about ice…

// Opinion
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