What do you call a proposal that breaks promises to city workers, destroys their family’s hard earned retirement security, lowers the city’s tax base, harms our fragile economy and actually requires the city of Cincinnati to pay out more...
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        23 August 2013  
  
    
    
    
  After a hard fought four month campaign, the Columbus, Ohio Catholic Diocese has been forced to reach agreement with discharged 19 year gay teacher, Carla Hale. She had been fired by the Diocese when she returned to work after burying her...
          19 August 2013  
  
    
    
    
  This past year when Republicans in the Ohio legislature passed Senate Bill 5 (SB 5), designed to wipe out public worker’s pensions, it was personal for young Mark Bukszar in Brooklyn, a working class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.  Mark’s Dad...
          08 August 2013  
  
    
    
    
  We were saddened to learn of the death of Columbus activist and nationally recognized poet Elizabeth Ann James last Sunday, August 4. Elizabeth was a long time supporter of the Free Press and other local independent media. where she...
          29 July 2013  
  
    
    
    
  Reversing 14 years of management for habitat protection, the Ohio Division of Forestry (DOF) has announced plans to eliminate an 8,000 acre Backcountry Management Area (BCMA) in Shawnee State Forest in Scioto and Adams Counties....
          26 July 2013  
  
    
    
    
  The FreshWater Accountability Project Ohio (FWAPOH) today released a report on the presence and dangers of radiation present throughout the horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) industry that is...