Columbus is a city where an authoritarian Democratic Party machine holds firm control over all city politics, backed by the checkbooks of their suburban millionaire and billionaire allies, like Les Wexner and Ron Pizzuti. The Republican Party is pretty much a nonentity. Green Party candidates have tried to take on the machine as a third party without luck so far.

Basically, it’s kidnapping.

Were the Border Patrol agents wearing MAGA hats when they grabbed Rosa Maria Hernandez as she left her hospital room?

“It’s a shocking case — the most outrageous case I’ve ever seen. Is it a preview of things to come?” ACLU attorney Michael Tan said to me about the incident, shortly after the civil-rights group filed suit against the federal government demanding the 10-year-old child’s release from a detention facility in Texas, 150 miles from her home in Laredo.

Rosa Maria, who has cerebral palsy, was arrested at a children’s hospital on Oct. 25, the day after she had emergency gall bladder surgery. She’s been at the detention center for a week now, under the bureaucratic “care” of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which wants to ship her back to Mexico.

French filmmakers Thibout Bertrand, Guillaume Lebeau and Benjamin Clavel have flown from Paris to L.A. to present the American debut of their just released documentary Red In Blue at the Left Coast Forum. The 57 minute film is especially timely as the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution is this Nov. 7.

Red In Blue includes clips from American movies about the Bolshevik uprising going back to silent movies and includes scenes from David Lean’s Dr. Zhivago, Warren Beatty’s Reds, the animated feature Anastasia and more. The documentary also features archival footage and original interviews with Warren Beatty, a U.S. Red plus French and American film historians, including Ed Rampell, co-founder of Hollywood Progressive, author of Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States.

Columbus Crew SC fans can only wonder. What team was Anthony Precourt rooting for when the Portland Timbers upset the Crew at Mapre Stadium for the 2015 Major League Soccer Cup?

In 2016 he traded star striker Kei Kamara to New England. Kamara was a fan favorite even with the fringiest of local Crew fans. Fast forward to the summer of 2017 and the Crew has the worst attendance in the MLS.

Again, something he was rooting for?

Another red flag was flashed in 2013 when Precourt bought the team from the Hunt family, the original owners. Precourt insisted on being the principle owner even though the Hunt family at first tried to offer him minority investment. Precourt then pledged to Columbus he would keep the Crew here.

Upon entering the OSU Urban Art Space, you are greeted with a biography of Dr. Frank Hale and other culturally relevant icons.

Frank Hale worked at OSU from 1971-98. He was a man of many accolades, important jobs and podiums. He was the Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and a Professor Emeritus. He sat on many regional boards – everything from the United Negro College Fund to the Ohio Martin Luther King Commission. Frank lectured many places including the National Academy of Science.

Dr. Frank Hale served as a consultant to various institutions and organizations such as the Department of Education and West Point. He published several books including an autobiography called Angels Watching Over Me in 1996 and What Makes Diversity Work in 2004. Dr. Frank Hale died in 2011. This information is condensed from BlackSociety.alumni.osu.edu.