Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate trains, especially older songs about trains when they really meant something! Listen to Trains Kept-a Rollin, Love Train, Downtown Train, Hobo Lullaby, Freight Train, Choo Choo Ch-Boogie and more!

Navigation – in these uncertain times, A Book of Poetry by Michael Eckhardt Sr., just released by the Free Press/CICJ Books, is a compilation of free verse and haiku that will move and inspire the Free Press reader. Many of Michael’s poems…

What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed? 

That’s the question facing residents of Ohio. In 2019, the State legislature prohibited communities from enacting “rights of nature…

I would swear on the graves of my parents and four grandparents that this is the most common question from white people when a race-related incident occurs or the subject of race comes up. It is often asked with an exasperated tone of voice,…