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“No Rail, No Vote” was recently posted to r/Columbus Reddit, foreshadowing a potential grassroots effort to derail the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA)’s November 0.75 percent sales tax levy for rapid transit bus corridors or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).

The LinkUS Mobility Initiative is the billion(s) dollar plan to increase Columbus’s public transit mobility options other than motor vehicles so to address the huge population spike regional leaders are predicting over the next twenty to thirty years. Estimates have varied widely, from $2 to $8 billion, on what the final LinkUS cost to taxpayers will be.

Initiated in 2020 by both COTA and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Committee (MORPC), the plan has designs on five Columbus corridors, such as West Broad and Olentangy River Road.

Listen to "Everybody Knows with Dr. Bob and Dan-o" on WGRN 91.9FM on Fridays at 11pm or streaming at wgrn.org.
They play tunes by bands that have performed at past Community Festivals and talk about their experiences.
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Friday, June 28 noon-11pm
Saturday, June 29, noon-11pm
Sunday, June 30, noon-6pm
Independent, nonprofit, non-corporate fun festival - Comfest has been held in Columbus for 52 years! There are several stages with local and national music, community booths, food, drinks, kids activities, and much more! See comfest.com and this year's Program Guide.

When: Thursday, June 27th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Global Gallery - 3535 N High St, Columbus, OH 43214

Join us for a fun-filled evening celebrating the launch of the Green Champions Podcast, a collaboration with Green Drinks (hosted by us, Green Columbus)! This event is your chance to:

The evening will feature:

A portion of beverage sales from Global Gallery will go directly to Green Columbus, a non-profit promoting environmental awareness in our community.

Introduction

We well know by now that Trump remains the undisputed leader of the Republican Party and seemingly has the unwavering support of an electoral base numbering in the tens of millions. His cult-like base seemingly accepts his statements as absolute truths, even when they contradict or ignore the relevant verifiable evidence. They believe his “big lie” that he won the 2020 presidential election, while the overwhelming evidence refutes it (https://thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadership/trumps-big-lie). They also believe falsely that global warming is a left-wing hoax.

Abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants
Seminar C of the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law

REGISTER NOW!

Thursday, June 27
9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern, 4 pm UTC

Interpretation available in English, Spanish, French (Arabic, Portuguese upon request)

Register: https://peoplesacademy.net/register

NOTE: This will be a 2.5-hour course!

Register Now for Seminar C of the People’s Academy of International Law: Abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants on Thursday, June 27.

Faculty for Seminar C:

When: Saturday, June 29th
Registration begins at 5:00PM. Bowling begins at 5:30PM

$25-adult bowling ticket
$20-adult non bowling ticket
$15-child bowling ticket
$10-child non bowling ticket

Deadline to Register: Wednesday, June 26th

Where: Columbus Square Bowling Palace
5705 Forest Hills Blvd, Columbus, OH 43231

Trophies will be awarded to:

Top 3 Adult Teams

Best Male & Female Bowler

Medals to Top 3 Child Bowlers

Teams of 4 players

$25 Adult Bowling Ticket: 2 games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza and soda

$20 Adult Non-Bowling Ticket: Pizza and soda

$15 Child Bowling Ticket: 2 games of bowling, shoe rental, pizza and soda (12 & under)

$10 Child Bowling Ticket: Pizza and soda (12 & under)

COVID-19 Health and Safety Guidelines:

This article first appeared in the Buckeye Flame.

In April, the Biden administration announced changes to Title IX, the landmark civil rights law, that would explicitly protect LGBTQ+ student-athletes from discrimination for the first time in history. 

Since then, attorneys general in at least 22 states have sued the administration in an attempt to block the changes, including Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

In nine of those states, including Ohio, federal judges have specifically blocked the Title IX protections for transgender and intersex students from taking effect.

The Title IX amendments, which are still set to take effect in September in 40 states, triggered a cascade of anti-LGBTQ+ backlash across the country – including at the Ohio Statehouse, where conservative lawmakers have been rallying against the changes for months.

There's a push in Congress to make military draft registration automatic nationwide.

We have a better idea: make voter registration automatic!

Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.

Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia  have made voter registration automatic. Your state is 100% capable of taking the same step.

We're at 22 states plus DC. But 39 states have automatic registration for a military draft. Where are our priorities?

The word Muqawama in Palestinian lexicon does not need elaboration beyond the immediate meaning it generates among ordinary Palestinians. Only recently, and specifically after the Oslo peace accords and the sudden infusion of western-funded NGOs, did such terms as ‘peaceful resistance’ and ‘non-violent resistance’ begin to emerge within some circles of Palestinian intellectuals. These phrases, however, never truly registered as central to the collective discourse of Palestinians. For them, Muqawama remained: one - indivisible, all encompassing.