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After the bus stops running
This past April 2, 2017 marked the 10th Annual Autism Awareness Day. Organizations from around the world joined forces to bring awareness about autism and to raise much needed funding to continue research, develop educational and treatment…
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Bob Bites Back: Asking our Ohio legislators some questions
Once again, a voter ID bill briefly reared its head again in the Ohio legislature. Ohio House Bill 41 in its original form sought to alter Ohio early voting requirements. State Representative Bernadine Kent (D-25) asked me to analyze the bill and…
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Columbus is Number One! (In police killing black people)
In the years 2013-2016, the Columbus Police killed 24 people, 20 of them black.
Mappingpoliceviolence.org lists the names of all Columbus citizens killed by the Columbus Police Department (CPD). Despite only 27.6 percent of Columbus’…
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DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT
Ohio legislature considers bills to prop up nuclear, tamp down renewables
FirstEnergy has gone to the Ohio legislature for bailouts for their two nuclear reactors (power plants) on Lake Erie: Davis-Besse east of Toledo and…
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