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Five LGBTQ+ Ohio Questions for 2025

This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame

Let’s face it: 2024 ended pretty terribly for LGBTQ+...

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"Something Special in My Factory"

The first installment (“I’m just a consumer”) closed with two admonitions. One said we should value people...

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Fear and loathing in Columbus’s immigrant community

The Mayor’s Office has never officially called Columbus a sanctuary city, but unofficially since 2017 conservatives and MAGA have attacked it as such. This was the year of new immigrant friendly...

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Action Alert

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Tuesday, 07 January 2025
Buckeye Environmental Network and Concerned Community Members to Hold Press Conference and Rally Against the Appalachian Hydrogen Hub
Tuesday, January 7th at 6:00pmBuckeye Environmental Network will be holding an informational webinar for the community and media to learn more about the ARCH2 project and its implications. Presenters include: eastern Ohio-based...
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06 January 2025
Have some perspective the next time you say you are ‘Freezin’ your ass off’
JJ Verbino

The freezing cold bites hardest on those who don’t have a home to head to at the end of the day. It doesn’t stop. Some may be lucky...
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07 January 2025
Ohio coal plant said to be nation’s most deadly. New owners seem likely to keep it open
Marty Schladen

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Politics
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07 January 2025
Blinken’s Blinkered Vision Has Spotted, of All Things, a Genocide
David Swanson

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Music
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29 December 2024
Wes Flexner aka ANONANONANON’s 2024 Albums, Politicians
Wes Flexner aka ANONANONANON

Biblioteque De L’Annee: Hip Hop is History - By Questlove.

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Arts
Young boy playing on homemade drums
06 January 2025
Watch the Oscar-shortlisted film “From Ground Zero” — filmed in Gaza over the last year! In theaters now
Michael Moore

I’m personally honored to inform you that Palestine’s entry to this year’s Academy Awards, the brilliant film FROM GROUND ZERO, has...
Editorial
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06 January 2025
Predictions for 2025
David Sowards

President Trump may commute the sentences or pardon convicted criminals who have broken the law for him.  Anyone involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on...
People
Dan and Bob holding signs with palindromes
01 January 2025
Everybody Knows - songs with the names "Bob" and "Dan"
Suzanne Patzer

Dr. Bob and Dan-o picked songs that include their names like Dr. Robert by the Stones, Bobby is his Name, Daniel by Elton John, Danny Boy and some...
Action Alerts
Details about event
07 January 2025
Buckeye Environmental Network and Concerned Community Members to Hold Press Conference and Rally Against the Appalachian Hydrogen Hub

Tuesday, January 7th at 6:00pm
Buckeye Environmental Network will be holding an informational webinar for the community and...
Human Rights
SIgn saying illegal aliens here and a stern bald older man with arms crossed and
08 January 2025
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones says he wants back in the “deportation business”
Free Press Staff and Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones ...