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Million Dollar Propaganda Campaign Defeats Issue One: One-party dictatorship remains in power
As we go to press, the devastating numbers are coming in from the special election polls. It appears Issue One has failed.
At the crux of the anti-Issue One campaign was the Big Lie that the idea of a city with representative…
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Protesters ‘wall off Trump’ outside political rally; Merch sales continue
After a Donald Trump town hall reached capacity Monday afternoon, about 150 Trump supporters who had been turned away milled around the vendors of campaign merchandise outside the Columbus Convention Center. Trump falsely told his supporters that…
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JASON BOURNE Film Review: Bourne to be Wild - Don’t Trust the CIA
Jason Bourne is the fifth installment in the Bourne film franchise derived from Robert Ludlum’s espionage novels that began with 2002’s The Bourne Identity. Ludlum’s original Bourne trilogy began in 1980 but didn’t…
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The neighborhood that inspired Issue 1: out of tragedy comes triumph
Jonathan Beard is the energy and inspiration behind Issue 1, the vote to end the at-large city council which has been in-place for over a century. Beard is the president and CEO of the Columbus Compact Corporation. He’s co-chair of Represent…
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