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‘It was a holy and sacred experience to speak for them’

Stacy Schwab had submitted a victim impact statement weeks earlier, but she wasn’t prepared to speak when she entered the courtroom with others who testified about the harms done by Purdue Pharma.

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New union busting allegations surface as Columbus Metropolitan Library workers rally ahead of union vote

The coming vote is set to take place amid what council member Rob Dorans called ‘some of the most egregious union busting’ he has ever witnessed during a weekend rally at Franklin Park Amphitheater.

Salif Sarr finds a second home in Ohio

The Columbus-based Fulani singer will perform as part of ‘Ohio Is My Second Country,’ taking place at Arts Fest on Saturday, June 13.

On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe

It’s very easy for owners to pay low taxes on decaying properties while waiting for somebody else to begin a resurgence. A proposed move to a land tax would make it harder for these squatters to wait.

Local Politics: City funding can’t meet the scale of the growing homelessness crisis

Why Columbus’ $13 million investment in services for the unhoused is unlikely to make a difference.

AI weapon-detection systems make their way to central Ohio schools

Even as the weapon-detection technologies offered by companies such as ZeroEyes find a place in local school districts such as Jonathan Alder, questions about its real-world efficacy remain.

Opinion: The politics of abandonment and the future of district representation in Columbus

At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group.

Used Kids Records owner Greg Hall purchases Musicol

‘And I think the people who have been around the music scene, particularly, see [Musicol] as a beacon, as a legacy institution here in Columbus’

The Worker’s View: Upper Arlington stages anti-union ‘educational campaign’

The fleet workers voted in March to join Teamsters Local 284 in spite of the actions taken by the city.

Opinion: Poetic Justice: A love letter to Columbus

A little over a week ago, a police officer stood in front of cameras and lied. He lied loudly into a microphone, attempting to plant evidence on my character by fabricating the cost of my suit and the brand of my shoes, all to set up a rehearsed line calling me a 'poverty pimp.'