Central Ohio area business leaders creating the nation’s first recovery center and trade school

Seeing the current workforce exodus crippling other contractors and the dire need for new approaches to addiction treatment, a group of Columbus-area businesses are backing a very innovative and unique nonprofit endeavor to address both problems and launch the nation’s first recovery center and trade school right here in Ohio. 

Although Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative is located in nearby Greene County, Ohio, a large portion of this nonprofit’s backing and leadership is based out of Greater Columbus and surrounding areas, as dozens of heating, air conditioning, plumbing and  electrical companies throughout Central Ohio are funneling portions of their profits into renovations underway at the facility. 

Once it’s fully operational, Emerge will serve people from all over Ohio; it is located at the former Greene County Career Center in Xenia Township. The 48-acre campus went up for auction in 2021 after the school moved to a new facility and its future was uncertain. 

SPAN program on the Environmental Effects on Health

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Saturday, January 14, 10am on Zoom
Clean air and clean water are critical to our health.  The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 declares a clean and safe environment as part of our Human Right to Health. 
 
How does air pollution impact our respiratory health?
How does polluted water impact our health?
Have we moved forward in safeguarding our health or backwards? 
Who is most impacted by our neglect of the environment?
 
Join us on Saturday, January 14th at 10:00 am as we explore those issues. Register here.

Raise the Kuffiyeh 2023

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Sat, January 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

Join us for our annual Palestinian cultural night Raise the Kuffiyeh 2023 featuring guest host Fathi @falas6eeni, and more performers TBA!

By Students for Justice in Palestine at The Ohio State University

Link for tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raise-the-kuffiyeh-2023-tickets-480032860207.

Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #122 Jan. 9 , 2023

In Green Grassroots Election Protection zoom #122 we pay tribute to pioneer election protection mainstay CLIFF ARNEBECK, who has just passed.

This heroic Ohio attorney joined with BOB FITRAKIS, CLINT CURTIS, JULIE WIENER & others who demanded an end to the 2004 electoral fraud that wrongly gave GEORGE W. BUSH a 2d term.

Clint gives us a tour of the paper ballot issue and questions the use of computerized ballot images to count the vote.

We then hear from DEEPA DRIVER and VINCENT DeSTEFANO about the situation with JULIAN ASSANGE.

Deepa delivers a brilliant talk on the absolute need for protected journalism and a public funnel for critical documents.

Time for Action is Now: What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine

Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. 

 A historic United Nations vote on December 31 called on the ICJ to look at the Israeli Occupation in terms of legal consequences, the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the responsibility of all UN Member States in bringing the protracted Israeli Occupation to an end. A special emphasis will be placed on the “demographic composition, character and status” of Occupied Jerusalem. 

How safe can we really be?

It was the guacamole’s fault!

That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta. Oh yeah, and he was wearing body armor. This was in March 2021, barely a week after an actual mass shooting at several massage parlors in Atlanta, in which eight people were killed. And it was only two days after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where ten people were killed.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

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What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

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What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

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What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

Busting Myths - The Ohio State University: Not “a failed presidency,” by itself, but a failing university

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Campus Partners for Urban Community Development

Among OSU’s most glaring if rarely noticed institutional failures is its so-called Campus Partners for Urban Community Development. As I demonstrate in detail in a forthcoming study, this almost 30 year front partners only with developers, never with or for urban community development. It actively neglects the University District whereby any measure of vision, planning, or common sense, its attention should focus.

Its series of contradictions is encapsulated in its self-presentation or identity as a university-based but independent non-profit organization to beneft private developers. Always lacking in planning and direction, it does just that, to the cost of the university’s losing millions of dollars.

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