Monthly Green Drinks events are back! On hiatus since February 2020, Green Drinks is an informal meetup of local residents who care about the environment. Please join us to kick off this programming Tuesday, August 30th, from 5:30-7:30 pm at Milestone 229! Milestone 229 is located on the Scioto Mile at 229 Civic Center Dr., and you'll find us out on the patio.

Special guests will include Rose Fortman, owner of Windrose Outdoor, and Shelly Douglas, the new Executive Director of Green Columbus. Come learn about kayak and paddleboard rentals on the Scioto and hear what Green Columbus has been up to! There will be special drink deals provided by 614 Lager and Buckeye Vodka, with 50% of proceeds going toward our Earth Day 2023 fund.

Swing by after work to enjoy happy hour pricing, chat with fellow Green Drinks enthusiasts, and support Green Columbus! We can't wait to see you and share what we've been working on.

Now that Columbus City Schools (CCS) teachers are back in schools, they have a simple request of Superintendent Dr. Talisa Dixon and her allies on the Board: "Please come to my school, a football game, an orchestra concert, and get to know us and what we do for the district."

But from what the Free Press has heard repeatedly over the summer – as the paper has been speaking regularly with a dozen teachers or so – is that Dr. Dixon has been, in many ways, not accessible to teachers and seemingly disinterested in their day-to-day efforts.

True, the virus forced schools to go remote in 2020, but these long-time teachers say there’s a tangible difference between Dr. Dixon and one past Superintendent, in particular.

CCS teachers told the Free Press they like to reflect on how Superintendent Dr. Dan Good treated them. Dr. Good ran the district from 2013 to 2017.

“He came to your school, walked the hallways, and he wanted to know your name and he wouldn’t forget who you were,” said one teacher.

We are quoting all teachers anonymously as they fear retaliation.

RESULTS.  
RESULTS is an organization where everyday people advocate for a world free of poverty and oppression. In the last year, we helped shape the emergency Covid funding bill that kept millions of people from being evicted and provided monthly child tax credit payments to families. And most recently mobilized 137 House representatives to sign a bipartisan letter demanding robust funding to address the pandemics of AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Now adays, it is easy for people get bogged down and discouraged with bad news. They don’t think they can make a difference in reaching their Senator or Representative.  RESULTS has proven to us that we can make a difference! RESULTS has taught us how to meet with and influence our members of Congress, get published, and reach out to our community to bring them into action.

Part One

Introduction

Faculty, staff, and students are OSU’s greatest assets. But the university’s leaders by sloganeering rarely acknowledge that. Students, staff, and faculty do not share President Kristina Johnson’s incessant personal identification and embrace of “My Fellow Buckeyes” or “Born to be a Buckeye.” They are demoralized. Faculty and staff in particular, but also many students, with due cause, feel locked out of OSU decision-making and communications structures. Disaffection is high.

But senior administrators, awash in their sea of slogans, excessive numbers, and overpayment, do not see this. There is no evidence that they know or care. If Johnson was “born to be a Buckeye,” and both President and Provost adhere to a dramatically incomplete and distorted notion of “land-grant mission,” what else matters? In her mind, OSU is the world’s largest STEM University. Johnson has no time to look up between giving herself awards, giggling and showing selfies to Columbus Dispatch reporters, or watching the Board of Trustees over her shoulders.

Saturday, August 27, 5-9pm, The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St.

It’s that time of year again!

Every year we have been gathering around Rubén Castilla Herrera’s birthday to celebrate his life, love, family, and the community he made and which made him.

This event will also be a fundraiser for Columbus Community Pride, Columbus’s alternative Pride celebration by and for LGBTQ+ people of color since 2018.

All are welcome to this event, including those who weren’t able to know Rubén while he was with us on earth.

¡Es esa época del año!

Todos los años reunimos por el cumpleaños de Rubén Castilla Herrera para celebrar su vida, su amor, su familia, y la comunidad que hizo y que lo hizo a él.

Este evento también recaudará fondos para Columbus Community Pride, la celebración alternativa del Orgullo de Columbus por y para la comunidad LGBTQ desde 2018.

Todos son bienvenidos a este evento, incluidos aquellos que no pudieron conocer a Rubén en persona.