The farmers and landowners in Knox County need your help.

The 120 megawatt Frasier Solar Project proposed within Knox County will benefit landowners by providing them with a steady source of income by diversifying their revenue streams. It also helps them contribute to a cleaner environment, create local jobs, and support sustainable energy development in our state.

Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking — it’s now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it deserves. Even as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, this century’s many warning signs retain the status of Cassandras.

I published my first single-authored book in 1979, my first edited book the same year. Although there never was “a golden age” of scholarly publishing, many elements have deteriorated significantly since that date.

The greatest decline has come in the past five to ten years. My students, colleagues, and I all experience it. Among many factors, including changes among editors and reviewers, economic calculations rose to rule.  

The major forces are not peculiar to scholars but hold true across the spectra of professional writers. Not only do often wholly ignorant economic guesses rule, but almost all major commercial publishers now require the intermediation of a paid agent rather than direct communication with prospective authors.

Self-publishing and hybrid presses are more often than not—although not always—bottomless, deceptive, unregulated profiteers.

In the spirit of academic freedoms—plural, I propose for discussion an Academic Authors’ Bill of Rights. (For context and detail, see my essays under References below)

In our first hour we start with TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service who joins with KARL GROSSMAN on the realities of America’s bogus “Nuclear Renaissance.”

MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA, and CONNIE KLINE update us on a wide range of issues.

We’re then updated by ANNE BATIZA on a postcard campaign and other attempts to free Julian Assange.

We then hear from STEVE GOLDSMITH on the perils of a lethal poison gas now threatening Los Angeles.

STEVE CARUSO gives us the latest on the crazed efforts of Ohio officials to kill democracy.

With pop music on our music, we hear from the brilliant ALAN MINSKY the intersection of sports & politics as we head into the SuperBowl.

SANDY BOLZENIUS, MIKE HERSCH, MYLA RESON, WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVEN GOLDSMITH chime in.

ELISSA MATROSS explains the classic dilemma of a powerful political activists who roots for the home team….in this case the 49ers.

ALEX WILLIAMS adds his opinions about whether NFL games are fixed.  

TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the sacrifice of Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

The murder trial of retired Franklin County Sheriff Deputy Michael Jason Meade began in Franklin County Common Pleas Court after jury selection on January 30, 2024 – the day that would have been the 27th birthday of his shooting victim, Casey Goodson, Jr.  

No one, including Meade and his colleagues, denies that Goodson died from six bullet shot wounds to his vital organs from Meade’s Daniel Defense AR-15 automatic rifle that released six bullets with one trigger pull. The bullets passed through a wire mesh and shattered a storm door before entering Goodson’s back as he was opening the kitchen door of his grandmother’s home on Estates Place in northeast Columbus the morning of December 4, 2020. 

As in all murder trials, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the death of the victim was intentionally caused by the accused. The level of the crime is determined by the circumstances and the mindset of the murderer.