A lawsuit looking to restrict council from closed-door sessions is making its way through the courts at the same time that organizers with Our City, Our Say are beginning to collect signatures for a ballot initiative designed to recast how council members are elected.
An Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed last week alleges that the recent termination of a CML employee was “unlawful and retaliatory,” motivated by the worker’s involvement in union organizing.
Tracy Ramey of Tastes & Tomes will join fellow collective members Barbara Bailey (Eqstesi by B.E.E.) and Megan Turner (Rooted Books) in a panel discussion at Zora’s House from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, as part of the inaugural National Black Bookstore Day.
Despite the hospital construction projects all over the state, residents across most of Ohio are no closer to health care – and many are even further removed from hospitals.
A bill to create an Ohio-Israel trade partnership is under review in the State Senate. Reactions in the city have been mixed at best.
More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind.
Even as new bonds approved by voters hope to transform housing development for years to come, a desperate shortage of affordable units continues to push low-income renters into the lowest-quality homes.
‘This is the beginning of a conversation,’ councilmember Christopher Wyche said of the four-hour meeting, during which reps from the data center industry, labor unions, and environmental groups joined residents to debate everything from data center water usage to the number of jobs these massive facilities actually create.
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction.
For more than a year, Gov. Mike DeWine has teased an announcement related to capital punishment in the state. With his term winding down, advocates fear the time for action is beginning to run short.
