November 2, 5-7pm
Wells Barn, Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43203

Calling all community gardeners and their supporters. 

Get ready to spice things up! You’re invited to the Taste of the Near East Area Chili Cook-Off Social — a fun evening celebrating great food and great community.

Franklin Park Conseervatory's Growing To Green Team is calling all community gardeners and their supporters to come together for this friendly competition and social gathering. Sample delicious chili recipes, connect with neighbors, and share your love of good food and gardening!

Whether you’re entering your best chili or just coming to taste and cheer, we’d love to see you there.

Scan the QR code in the flyer to RSVP, enter your chili, and sign up to volunteer! Feel free to also use this link:

This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame.

Ohio’s proposed drag ban received its second hearing Wednesday before members of the House Judiciary Committee.

The hearing featured public testimony in support of the bill from two anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups: Mission America and the Columbus-based Center for Christian Virtue (CCV), which is a primary driver of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation at the Ohio Statehouse.

This Nov 4, Columbus Mayor Ginther is betting that you won’t read the ballot when voting on the 1.9 BILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUE. All of the Opportunity City Political Action Committee mailings and commercials CLAIM that it won’t raise your taxes by a single penny. That’s true… because it’s a lot more.

Bond Issue 5 - $27 per $100,000

Bond Issue 6 - $27 per $100,000

Bond Issue 7 - $45 per $100,000

Bond Issue 8 - $49 per $100,000

Bond Issue 9 - $42 per $100,000

$190 total for each $100,000 in home value

Mayor Ginther’s golf partners want MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS so they can buy another condo in Aspen. His wealthy friends, like the Haslams, LOVE FREE MONEY from Columbus tax payers who will foot the bill for cheap “affordable housing.” They get cash grants to pay for new apartments that they can raise rents on every year and become even more rich. THIS ISN’T ABOUT CHARITY. This is pure greed disguised as helping the middle class of Columbus.

Why wasn’t this done in Phase 1 of Zone-In?

Because they wanted expensive hi-rise buildings for the rich more than anything else (makes them more money).

While most new presidents would like to use their influence to make America a better country for all, Donald Trump is not that kind of leader. Instead, he has chosen to use his position to enact personal vendettas against anyone judged to be his enemy.

When James Comey was FBI director in 2016, he appeared to be a Trump ally when he suggested that the investigations into Hillary Clinton's activities might have to be reopened. This announcement, shortly before the 2016 presidential election, might have swayed enough votes away from the Democratic candidate to give the Republicans a victory. However, any goodwill between Trump and Comey disappeared when the FBI director considered opening up investigations against Trump, so then Comey was fired.

Now, the president is demanding that the Department of Justice prosecute Comey for for possibly lying to Congressional committees.

John Bolton, who used to be Trump's national security advisor, has recently been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly possessing classified Defense department documents. He was likely targeted because of negative comments he made about Trump in his recent book.

I was born and grew up in New York City. I rode the subway to school way, way downtown. School buses were for sissies. I was a typical New York City tough kid. For years I lived with my mother in run-down old hotels owned by my father who was clawing his way up from a modest life on the Lower East Side.

The idea of ‘affordable housing,’ a shibboleth now popular with the general public, barely existed. On those distant days, save on the wilder shores of leftwing unionism, you worked hard as hell to pay your rent or slept on the roof or in the park.

In 1991, Zohran Mamdani appeared in the big city out of nowhere. Mamdani had won an election as an assemblyman in New York’s 36th District. He had been born in Uganda and, like many ethnic Indians, fled the rampages of despot Idi Amin. Uganda’s Asians have produced a large number of highly talented people, among them the young Mamdani. Astoundingly, he is a proud Muslim in a city dominated by pro-Israel, wealthy Jewish residents, Latin Americans and Haitians.