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Swinging for the Midterms

Wedding Guide Fall 2026

Marisa & Joshua Johnston March 7, 2026 Josh and I met on Tinder four years ago, while we were both living in Columbus, and we’ve been each other’s better half ever since. In 2024, we made the move to my hometown of Toledo, which made celebrating this next chapter of our lives in…

Fundraiser for YES on Issue 8 - Our City, Our Say

Thursday, October 1 from 6-8PM Barrel & Bloom,2365 W Dublin-Granville Rd, Columbus, OH 43235 This is an important moment for democracy in Columbus and a vital step forward to building a better city. In order to get the word out to voters citywide, this campaign, like any other,…

Ireland Takes a Stand: The Irish National Team’s Message on Gaza

The Republic of Ireland’s national soccer team sent a powerful political message during its Nations League match against Israel in Debrecen, Hungary, on September 27. Irish players wore black armbands, bowed their heads during the playing of Israel’s national anthem, and declined…

Hawks and Hawkeyes

Schmitt Head

First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy by Donna Chaffee

It was the last week of my sixth grade year when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. It was just two months earlier that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been murdered, and I remember all the magazines my mother got– Life, Look, Ebony, Jet –and reading about both assassinations…

AI Rats Stealing the 2026 Election, a Human Future, & the Devastating Mis-Hap at Michigan’s Palisades Nuke

We open our latest GREEP Zoom gathering with a poem and a report from MIMI GERMAN in the deep desert of Eastern Oregon. From ALAN MINSKY of Progressive Democrats of America we get crucial warnings on how to protect your vote. Forever activist MYLA RESON makes it clear that the…

Trump PSA

We Want You Sick Say Health Corporations

Many realize that health corporations make money when you are sick--or you are afraid you're sick--but some are blissfully ignorant of the dual and hypocritical messaging. Industry's "hypochondria sell," of course, is the basis of Ask Your Doctor advertising but it also fuels the…

Columbus City Schools successfully manipulates local legacy media

This article first appeared here What’s happening right now with Columbus City Schools (CCS), the media, and the Columbus Education Association (teacher’s union) is exactly how the state of public schools perpetuates in Ohio’s largest district.

Black Policy Matters

Every major election cycle, millions of dollars in civic funding flow into get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organizations, voter mobilization drives, and community outreach coalitions. Yet, despite this massive influx of resources, the numbers on the ground tell a starkly different story:…