Since October 2022, which marked 75 years since the House Un-American Activities (HUAC) began its witch hunting congressional hearings investigating “subversion” in Tinseltown, there have been a number of events commemorating the Hollywood Blacklist.

Synopsis by Greg Pace (Treasurer of Columbus Community Rights Coalition)

Columbus Community Rights Coalition (CCRC), an Ohio-based 501(c)(3) organization, has published a white paper meant to inform resident stakeholders of risks to the water associated with oil & gas (O&G) production activities occurring within their watershed region of Columbus, Ohio.

The paper offers some history of oil & gas operations in Ohio over the past century and highlights how hundreds of thousands of undocumented wells are believed to exist. Most are orphaned or abandoned, which leads to risks of contamination over time when they are not properly plugged. The shorter history of Class II saltwater injection wells (SWIWs) used for oil & gas “brine” disposal has its own set of problems associated with incidents of water and wetland contamination in Ohio, and with how they are regulated by the state.  This is of concern for Central Ohio residents who rely on public water as there are many legacy injection wells in their Source Water Protection Area (SWPA).

Saturday, June 24, 5pm, Columbus Square Bowling Palace, 5707 Forest Hills Blvd.

The Faith Thomas Foundation is hosting our eighth annual bowling fundraiser for Sickle Cell, Saturday, June 24, at the Columbus Square Bowling Palace. We hope to see you there.

• $25 adult bowling ticket: two games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza, and soda

• $15 child (12 and under) bowling ticket: two games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza, and soda

• $20 adult non-bowling ticket: pizza and soda

• $10 child (12 and under) non-bowling ticket: pizza and soda

The Faith Thomas Foundation raises funds and awareness to benefit and provide support to the transitional program, between Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center / James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, to improve the care of patients as they transition from childhood to adulthood. This transition program will provide services that will make for a seamless transition.

There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness.

Ellsberg, who died on June 16 at age 92, had been part of the military-industrial establishment in the 1960s — a smart young man working as a Pentagon consultant at the Rand Corporation think tank. In the mid-’60s. he wound up spending two years in Vietnam, on a mission for the State Department to study counterinsurgency. He traveled through most of the country — witnessing not simply the war up close but Vietnam itself, and the people who lived there.