Photo of Dispatch building
06 August 2015

In early June The Columbus Dispatch and related publications were sold to New Media Investments for $47 million and became part of the hedge fund’s GateHouse Newspapers. Part of the deal reportedly was that current employees...

Sandra Bland photo
06 August 2015

Americans are once again faced with the real “reality show” of life in regards to what happens when you are a person of color, male or female, and are arrested by a racist police officer.

  On July 10, 2015...

Bill Moss photo
06 August 2015

Ten years ago on August 2, 2005, the city lost an extraordinary man, Bill Moss. As an independent politician – with no Party machine to fund him, handle him, or promote him – he built his own movement of people who voted him onto the...

Movie poster from Message from Hiroshima
06 August 2015

Aug. 6: Peace Vigil at Goodale Park Gazebo and Pond, Park Street and Buttles Avenue, northeast side of the park. 7:30-8:30pm for a sunset ceremony marking the 70th year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Photo of Rocco diPietro
05 August 2015

Rocco Di Pietro is a renowned composer and pianist based in Columbus, Ohio. He is also a writer (among whose many publications is Dialogues with Boulez) and educator (currently teaching at Columbus State Community College...

Photo showing an atomic blast at the bottom morping into a tree at the top
05 August 2015

What conditions bring peace? What conditions bring war? How do people address them?  Many families and communities have split over these topics, as they can bring a great divide of opinion and historical recollection.
   This...

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