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Our City’s General Revenue Fund Should Not Be Used to Subsidize Tax Abatement Recipients

Mayor Ginther

It’s bad enough that the Mayor and Columbus City Council hand out tax abatements as though every Monday is Halloween. Central Ohio leads the state in granting tax breaks to the tune of $5.82 billion. Tax abatements for wealthy developers and corporations are contributing to reduced revenue for our public schools, social services, and burdening homeowners with unattainable higher property taxes.

Ohio Revised Code 5709.82 requires the city of Columbus to “pay affected school districts 50 percent (50 percent) of the municipal income tax revenue attributable to tax abated projects where the annual ‘new employee’ payroll for a project is one million dollars for an Enterprise Zone (EZ) or for a Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) two million dollars or more, in a given tax year, during the abatement.”

Solar News This Week - July 20, 2025

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Effect of HR1 on commercial, utility US solar projects

In defense of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist, drew national attention after sweeping the city's Democratic mayoral primary in a stunning upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. If he wins the general election in November, he will become the city's first Muslim mayor and its first Asian American mayor.
 
President Trump immediately accused Mamdani of being a "communist" and "living illegally" in the US. Why does that not surprise me? After all, he was the same person who during last presidential debate accused Haitian immigrants of eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. No one trusts a 34X Convicted Felon, Convicted Sex Offender who has been on Epstein's island at least seven times that we know of. Had Mamdani been living illegally in the US, ICE agents would have arrested him faster than a blink of an eye.
 
VP JD Vance slammed Mamdani for a "lack of gratitude" for the U.S. Why don't we ask War Criminal Netanyahu when was the last time he said thank you for the $3.8 BILLION Israel gets every year? Did Vance's in-laws voice their gratitude for being allowed to live in the US?

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Take Action to Protest Colbert Cancellation and Big Media's Complicity with Trump

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In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.

Last December, the Disney Company paid Trump a thinly-disguised bribe—$15 million to Trump’s future presidential library—to settle a harassment lawsuit against ABC News over a segment mentioning E. Jean Carroll's victorious case against Trump.

In January, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made a bribe-like payment of $25 million to Trump to settle a ridiculous lawsuit after the company followed its own well-understood guidelines and suspended Trump from Facebook and Instagram for inciting violence on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol. (Note that Congress did not uphold the same basic standards for removing a president from office.)

Esther Flores’s recent address to Columbus City Council

Esther

President Hardin, esteemed members of City Council, and fellow community members. Thank you for granting me an opportunity to speak before you tonight on harm reduction strategies for a healthier West Side through our compassionate client center and trauma responsive approach via 1DivineLine2Health Hilltop Drop-In Center. We are on frontlines serving those affected by human and drug trafficking. We serve their children and caregivers. An issue of immense importance to our city is the need to implement and advance effective harm reduction strategies as a cornerstone of our public health response towards substance use disorders. This is a subject that is often difficult to discuss but it is critical to the health, safety, and dignity of residents.

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Sensationalism shadows ancient Ohio history, for better or for worse

Map of mound and statue

Even the experts get it wrong once in a while.

Erected in 1929, on a ridge over a Maumee River floodplain south of Toledo, is an impressive statue commemorating the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It was the height of summer 1794, and a Native American confederacy made what would amount to one of several last stands against the invaders. The battle’s name was inspired by a tornado that had previously torn through the mix of prairie and forest. On the battlefield was future President William Henry Harrison, as was Tecumseh.

Near the statue is a notable rock moved here to honor the battle’s Native casualties. The legend goes a chief rallied his warriors from this rock – his last words before being gunned down. There’s decaying tobacco stuffed into chiseled holes, testimony First Nations continue to make offerings.  

Good Trouble rally at Ohio Statehouse

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Video of the gathering July 17 to celebrate Congressman John Lewis at the Ohio Statehouse.

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