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Mayor Ginther and Joe Motil

Columbus cannot survive another term of Andy Ginther – a 2025 “Golden Padlock Award” finalist

Ever since the ending of my 2023 campaign for mayor, I continue to be asked if I will run for mayor again in 2027. My reply has been, “In politics you never say never. I am currently in a wait-and-see mode. The election is two years away.”

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Why Trump, the “Peacemaker,” Can’t Secure Peace

In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even…

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Walter Cronkite

News “professionals” choose profit over public interest—again

Original Sin How About Original Spin? WOW!!! There are no words- Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson you had one job!! In a time when 64% of Americans report having "not very much" or "no trust at all" in the media according to the Pew…

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Hundreds gather to demand peace during NATO meeting in Dayton

As the NATO Parliamentary Assembly sat for its spring session, hundreds of protestors representing a broad coalition of the peace movement, workers, and environmentalists demonstrated just on the other side of the perimeter to protest, loudly,…

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