In interviews, nearly 20 unhoused or formerly unhoused Columbus residents spoke about the things they lost in encampment sweeps and the impact it had on their lives.
'And it’s sad, because they do that to get you off of the property, but then they don’t do anything with it. And it’s like, what was the purpose of it?'
Drag performers, trans activists, and their allies will join forces in protesting the anti-drag bill HB 249 outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, May 12.
A Franklin County jury found the former Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy guilty of reckless homicide for shooting and killing the 23-year-old Goodson in December 2020.
Economic strategies in Ohio are more focused on helping existing corporations get stronger than on actually developing something new.
Here are the local candidates on Franklin County’s ballot this year.
In the wake of a City Council vote clearing the way for the bulk of McCoy Park to be handed over as the training facility for a new NWSL expansion team, local residents are staging a ‘Hands Off Our Park’ rally at the Southwest Side park beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 1.
‘Walking between the Wexner Medical Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts all the time [is] just morally exhausting,’ said Murray Katkin, who helped organize an early April protest obscuring the Wexner name from the Ohio State arts center.
In March, the Board of Trustees approved $2.3 million to design a ‘revitalized gateway to campus’ that Wexner Center for the Arts director of film/video David Filipi said could lead to the museum’s theater being ‘demolished’ if executed as planned.
After spending years working with neighbors and promising improvements to benefit disabled residents, elected officials are prepared to give away a 28-acre park in the poorest corner of the city for the use of billionaire investors.
