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Mayor Michael Coleman

“Asian Expert” serves up a triple dose of exploitation

As the FBI continues to scrutinize the relationship between Mayor Michael Coleman and Chinese business woman Jianhua Li, their investigation has exposed a tiny window into how local power brokers are wooing foreign nationals to ship…

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First Person Singular - Jewish Voice for Peace

JP Marat writes:


Imagine a narrow strip of land extending about two miles on either side of Interstate 71 and running through Columbus from I-270 North to I-270 South. Now imagine 1.8 million Ohioans are forced to live there…

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ColumbusMediaInsider: Dispatch Labor Day Bloodbath

In early June The Columbus Dispatch and related publications were sold to New Media Investments for $47 million and became part of the hedge fund’s GateHouse Newspapers. Part of the deal reportedly was that current employees would keep…

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You have a right to keep your mouth shut when arrested

Americans are once again faced with the real “reality show” of life in regards to what happens when you are a person of color, male or female, and are arrested by a racist police officer.


  On July 10, 2015…

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