Columbus, Ohio boasts one of the fastest-growing economies in the midwest, with gains in transit, creditworthiness, and employment — but it’s also one of the most unequal cities in the country, where infant mortality is soaring alongside a horrific drug epidemic, both of which disproportionately affect poor people.
Continue reading “Sanders-inspired candidates challenge Democratic sellouts in unequal Columbus”
Tag: ohio
Prison inmates built working PCs out of ewaste, networked them, and hid them in a closet ceiling
Inmates in Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution smuggled computer parts out of an ewaste recycling workshop and built two working computers out of them, hiding them in the ceiling of a training room closet ceiling and covertly patching them into the prison’s network.
Continue reading “Prison inmates built working PCs out of ewaste, networked them, and hid them in a closet ceiling”
Millions of lead-filled CRTs have been abandoned in warehouses across America
The swift replacement of CRT screens with flat panels created tons of extremely toxic e-waste, with dangerous tubes and leaded glass posing unique environmental and safety hazards for disposal workers and sites.
Continue reading “Millions of lead-filled CRTs have been abandoned in warehouses across America”
Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies
Ross Compton, a 59-year-old homeowner in Middletown, Ohio called 911 in September 2016 to say that his house was on fire; there were many irregularities to the blaze that investigators found suspicious, such as contradictory statements from Compton and the way that the fire had started.
Continue reading “Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies”
Cleveland: “First Amendment zones” will fence protesters far away from RNC
The city of Cleveland has revealed its crowd control plan for next month’s Republican National Convention, a heavily policed, fenced off 3.3 square-mile “event zone” — the size of Baghdad’s Green Zone — with fenced-off protest areas far from the convention itself.
Continue reading “Cleveland: “First Amendment zones” will fence protesters far away from RNC”
Ohio newspaper chain owner says his papers don’t publish articles about LGBTQ people
When Dale Grimm, owner of four Ohio papers — the New Carlisle News, the Enon Eagle, the Tippecanoe Gazette, and the Troy Tribune — was queried on Facebook by high-school students about why some of their student assignment articles were published in his papers, but the ones about the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance and a trans student weren’t, the proprietor answered, “We do not print articles of that nature.”
Continue reading “Ohio newspaper chain owner says his papers don’t publish articles about LGBTQ people”
1930s ice-cream parlour hidden in Cincinnati’s art deco railway station
Cincinnati’s gorgeous art deco Union Terminal houses many museums — and a beautifully preserved 1930s ice-cream parlour serving locally made ice-cream.
Continue reading “1930s ice-cream parlour hidden in Cincinnati’s art deco railway station”
Why parents in Cincinnati camp out for 16 days to get a kindergarten spot
Scarce kindergarten places at magnet schools like the Fairview-Clifton German Language School are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to parents who camp out for weeks, clearing their tents every morning so the kids won’t be disturbed by the tent-city on the school’s lawn.
Continue reading “Why parents in Cincinnati camp out for 16 days to get a kindergarten spot”
Cop who switched off traffic cam in order to make illegal threats will keep his job
Niles, OH Patrolman Todd Mobley followed an acquaintance home in his cruiser and yanked him out of the car and threatened his life; when another cop arrived, Mobley had the cop turn off his dashcam and continued his illegal behavior; he has served a 30 day suspension and is back on the job.
Continue reading “Cop who switched off traffic cam in order to make illegal threats will keep his job”
Wrongly convicted man released from US prison after 39 years
Jose writes, “A 12 year old child was forced by the police to give false testimony against three black teens in 1975; the last two men have just been released from prison. I was moved to tears by both the terrible injustice and the way one of these men, Ricky Jackson, spoke out without any sign of hatred.”
Continue reading “Wrongly convicted man released from US prison after 39 years”