Jaiymie Kiggins was born and raised in Columbus Ohio. He graduated from Antioch College in 1994.

In addition to being a sculpture and union stagehand he has applied his metal working skills to race cars and boats. He is a Comfest regular where many many people have seen his work, which also adorns libraries, schools and hospitals throughout Central Ohio. He currently resides on a farm outside Lancaster Ohio and his work can be seen at http://www.kiggins-sculpture.com/

FP: Describe for our readers the most compelling art piece you have made

The Columbus International Film & Video Festival (CIF&VF) is bigger and better than ever this year.

Progressive educators at Ohio State University started the longest running film festival in the U.S. back when 16mm film was a new and exciting format. Now in its 62nd year, the Festival kicks off with a series of Early Bird Films in October and early November that lead up to the official start of the now 12 day Festival November 13-25.

This year the Festival teams up with Stonewall Columbus, VSA Ohio – The State Organization on Arts and Disability and the Niagara Foundation to bring films not seen anywhere else in Columbus.

The main Festival in November starts off with a film about sex and disability from Australia. Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability. Director and Star Rachel Wotton will speak about the film and do a Q&A immediately after the film via Skype.

Will precinct-by-precinct, 15 minute-by-15 minute election night results that are available only to the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, compromise the security of the statewide election?

In Ohio’s notorious 2004 presidential election, called by pollster Lou Harris “one of the most corrupt in U.S. history,” one of the signs of election tampering was the impossible results flowing from precincts in Republican rural Ohio. In Cyde, Ohio they initially reported 130 percent voter turnout.

In Perry County, one precinct came in at 120 percent, another at 114 percent. In Miami County, the Concord Southwest precinct claimed 679 out of 689 voters cast ballots overwhelmingly for Bush. They later admitted to The Free Press that only 549 people signed into the polls and that the other votes had been the result of bad computer tallies.

Now with Ohio’s new election night reporting system it is easier than ever to stack the deck and bring in the cybervote at the precinct level.

Everyone has hang-ups - inhibitions, insecurities or situations that prevent one from having sex.

You have a partner, each is in the mood, you move closer in the direction of getting it on, and then everything stops. Someone's hang-up shows up.

Some hang-ups are mental – needing to have things arranged in a particular way - lights off, music on, lingerie or other “costuming,” grooming (brushing teeth, shaving, showered), focusing on having an orgasm in order to have satisfying sex, being over worried about STDs – the list goes on.

Some hang-ups are societal or based on religious beliefs – needing to be married, with a partner of a certain faith, or waiting until the third date. Perhaps you feel like you've had too many partners, and want to keep it below a certain number.

Striking Reynoldsburg teachers want the public to know one thing: they’re on the picket line because they care about students first.

The strike is more about what the Reynoldsburg school district is forcing on the students and teachers than winning a compensation package that’s on par with neighboring districts, said the Reynoldsburg Education Association (REA), the teachers’ union.

The Reynoldsburg school district, led by Superintendent Tina Thomas-Manning, called an “education ally” of Gov. John Kasich by the REA, has been pushing hard for teachers to accept a merit-based pay system.

Conservatives and Capitalists have long been among supporters of merit-based pay claiming it will help to close “the achievement gap.”

Critics of merit-based pay say it is a veiled effort to privatize education by replacing teachers with technology, increasing class sizes, increasing the number of standardized tests and growing the number of for-profit charter schools.