Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Budd Dairy Food Hall, 1101 N 4th St, Columbus 43201

Hear Columbus City Council Candidates Tiara Ross and Jesse Vogel discuss their views on the future of Columbus' 7th District. Moderated by Amy Juravich of WOSU's All Sides.

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James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active duty and four in the reserves, Jones says he has a “multitude” of health care problems.

“There’s PTSD, a right arm injury, my right shoulder, chronic rhinitis from toxic exposure during the Gulf War, dental,” he says. That’s why he depends on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, the nation’s largest.

Jones, a federal employee from Watauga County, North Carolina, is also one of the 25 percent of vets who live in rural areas. And care for these rural veterans is now at serious risk as Republicans push to cut rural health care and privatize the VA. Ohio, which has one of the largest veteran populations overall in the country, could be especially impacted.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Ohio Statehouse, Columbus
For almost two years, Ohioans have been organizing across the state to demand divestment from Israel. Our tax dollars should not fund genocide, apartheid, or the starvation of millions in Gaza. Our tax dollars should be used here—to support education, housing, infrastructure, and public services.

On the two-year anniversary of the beginning of this ongoing genocide in Gaza, organizers and community members from around the state will come together to demand a permanent end to all of Ohio’s ties to Israel. We demand an end to Ohio’s complicity in genocide. 

Another day, another Israeli massacre in South Lebanon. Hassan Atwi and his wife Zainab Raslan were killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on October 6, 2025. The strike targeted their car in the village of Zabdin, near Nabatiyeh, according to Dearborn.org-News & media website.

Hassan Atwi, who is an engineer, was reportedly blinded in a pager blast last year and his wife lost her right hand. The couple had two sons who were killed during the 2023-24 Israel air bombing campaign of Lebanon. 

The Lebanese health ministry also reported Monday's attack and confirmed, "two people were killed and one wounded when an Israeli drone strike targeted a car on the Zebdin road in the Nabatiyeh district" of southern Lebanon, reported the New Arab Staff and Agencies on October 6.

Over 4,000 people were killed in Israel's attacks in Lebanon since the November 27, 2024 ceasefire agreement was signed.

Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin last week eagerly confirmed that all “Peaceful Atom” nuclear power plants are fair game for military destruction and that the ensuing apocalyptic fall-out is not really his concern.

As Reuters reported, “Putin on Thursday warned Ukraine that it was playing a dangerous game by striking the area near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and suggested that Moscow could retaliate against nuclear plants controlled by Ukraine.”

The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia complex is, noted Reuters “Europe’s largest [and] has been cut off from external power for more than a week and is being cooled by emergency diesel generators.”

Zaporizhzhia was captured by Russian forces in the early days of the 2022 invasion.

The global crisis it now embodies was foreseen 45 years ago by Bennett Ramberg, in his book “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril.”