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A holiday weekend of youth gun violence from Columbus to the nation
The holiday weekend’s smoke has cleared from the summer sky, but a different kind of haze lingers over cities like Columbus. It is the acrid aftermath of a celebration scarred by gunfire, a pall that hangs over communities trying to reconcile the…
Ohio governor vetoes LGBTQ+ book restrictions, keeps trans erasure language in budget
This article first appeared in the Buckeye Flame
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed the state’s two-year budget, vetoing three anti-LGBTQ+ measures and leaving three intact.
Shortly before the midnight deadline on June 30 to approve…
28 Years Later: a film with more disharmony than it needs
A central motif of the new horror film 28 Years Later is its statement about what normal looks like. From the outset, normality is encoded in the battle between normal humans vs abnormal, zombified ones. But another subtler message also makes…
Greed: The Survival of a Primitive Emotion
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax…