06 March 2008
Ohio's primary and election reform – the good, the bad and the ugly
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Bob Fitrakis
Co-written with Ron Baiman
The good news is that visible strides were made in re-enfranchising Ohio’s Franklin County (Columbus) inner city urban voters in the March 4, 2008 primary. Voting machines and paper ballots were...
04 March 2008
Ohio primary voting off to slow start
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Bob Fitrakis
COLUMBUS, OHIO 11:00AM -- Free Press reporters returned on Tuesday to the site of long lines and hours-long voting delays in the 2004 election and found low voter turnout, short waits and no major voting problems as Ohio's 2008 primary...
04 March 2008
Primary day at the polls in Columbus, Ohio
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David S. Lewis
COLUMBUS, OH I arrived at the Free Press office with two six-packs of Newcastle and a flask full of good bourbon whiskey, prepared for whatever ill assignments may be levied in my direction. Dr. Bob was hurrying off to school, declining...
13 February 2008
OSU students demand environmental justice; stage sit-in at President Gordon Gee's office
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Columbus Indymedia
Today President Gordon Gee of The Ohio State University is cowering in his office, denying a meeting with representatives of student group Free the Planet! OSU and fellow supporters of The Grassy Narrows First Nation. Protesters serenaded...
11 February 2008
WCRS Community Radio celebrates eight months on the air!
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Doug Todd
For those in the Central Ohio area who have not already had the pleasure of listening, WCRS, also known as Simply Living Radio, started broadcasting on a five hour per day schedule in late June 2007. Broadcast hours are currently from 3-7...
07 February 2008
McKinney urges review of ''Lucasville Five' convictions
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Anita Rios
Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Representative and current presidential candidate, has joined a campaign to win pardons for five wrongfully convicted death row inmates.

On Easter Sunday of 1993, inmates of the Lucasville, Ohio...

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