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The first conversation will center on this June feature.
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The first conversation will center on this June feature.
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We're launching a new monthly Community Conversations series at Two Dollar Radio HQ.
The kickoff takes place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, and features author Hanif Abdurraqib and Heer to Serve founder Emily Myers.
Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/events/96503...
We hope to see you there!
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Ohio spends billions to rehabilitate the incarcerated. Current state laws make it difficult for employers to then hire them.
Advocates say House Bill 460 would help ease the path into the workforce for the formerly incarcerated.
New from Edie Driskill.
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Cindy Koumoutzis called on her experience helping a child with substance-use disorder in co-founding OhioCAN – a learned perspective she hopes the state considers when dispersing opioid settlement funds.
New from @jackshuler.bsky.social.
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Read the award-winning feature, written and reported in collaboration with @columbusmonthly, here:
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We only exist due to the support of the community. Sign up here as a monthly donor and help us continue this work.
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Matter News earned a pair of awards at the statewide Excellence in Journalism awards over the weekend, taking home second place wins in Investigative Journalism and Crime & Justice Reporting.
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It’s all too common in Columbus (and many other cities) for an empty building or vacant lot to be a stain on the neighborhood while an owner waits for a better redevelopment deal.
Here's the latest from Brian Williams.
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“My hope for this was to demonstrate that even if the system can’t be trusted, there are folks ... that can be, and we could build from there. But as it stands, I think the only thing this program has done is make the next social worker’s job harder.” www.matternews.org/community/as...
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Sunday reading icymi
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A school is not just an “educational facility.” It is – or should be – a neighborhood nucleus. A closed school may make it easier for the school board to balance its budget, but it can weaken entire neighborhoods.
New from Brian Williams.
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Cook had a panic attack and ran out of the apartment with a full-size replica of a Roman sword. When police caught up with Cook, he told the officer that after a verbal disagreement about fast food, he got overwhelmed “because he is extremely sensitive about confrontation,” the report stated.
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And in this column written in 1997 but never published, we see how time continues to be a flat circle. www.matternews.org/community/de...
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A school is not just an “educational facility.” It is – or should be – a neighborhood nucleus. A closed school may make it easier for the school board to balance its budget, but it can weaken entire neighborhoods.
New from Brian Williams.
www.matternews.org/community/on...
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Very interesting deep-dive article into how kids get Nazified online. But it also includes this amazing paragraph. The master race: sensitive about confrontation.
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Inside a Hilliard teen’s fascist terror plot
Christopher Cook was sentenced last year in a white supremacist plot to attack the nation’s power grid, capping his evolution from isolated suburbanite to neo-Nazi radical.
New in collaboration with Columbus Monthly.
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Also, sign up for our (free!) weekly email newsletter here: www.matternews.org/newsletter
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These types of features aren't possible without your support. Matter will always be free for everyone to read, but if you have the financial means to make a one-time donation or to sign up as a supporting member, it will allow us to sustain this work.
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Inside a Hilliard teen’s fascist terror plot
Christopher Cook was sentenced last year in a white supremacist plot to attack the nation’s power grid, capping his evolution from isolated suburbanite to neo-Nazi radical.
New in collaboration with Columbus Monthly.
www.matternews.org/community/wh...
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This is Matter's second collaboration with Monthly, following last year's deep dive into the disgraced former Columbus police Vice Unit.
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Coming on Tuesday to matternews.org in collaboration with Columbus Monthly.
Inside a Hilliard teen’s fascist terror plot: Christopher Cook was sentenced last year in a white supremacist plot to attack the nation’s power grid, capping his evolution from isolated suburbanite to neo-Nazi radical.
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The illicit drug market is in constant flux, changing because of taste and economics, but primarily politics. People who use drugs are at the mercy of change – and any sudden shift in what is readily available can take lives.
New from @jackshuler.bsky.social.
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"The city’s efforts are not perfect, but change is coming. And leaders, for once, appear sincere about seeking comments and suggestions from the community. Take the time to study the new proposal. And then try to make it better."
New from Brian Williams.
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"When we think about an entire community, we need to ask ourselves, why is it that I’m willing to leave my children in the care of someone who makes $14 an hour working at a daycare center ... but I don’t trust them enough to let them live in my community"
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With Stormy Daniels expected to testify in Trump's hush money trial today, revisit this 2023 deep dive that digs into the adult star's role in the downfall of Columbus police's corrupted vice unit.
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“[Gov.] DeWine, as big a weasel as he is, I don’t think he wants to be buried next to James Rhodes as the two guys who ordered the on-campus slaughter of unarmed protesters. ... But, you know, when you get armed snipers on a roof, anything can happen.”
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“[Gov.] DeWine, as big a weasel as he is, I don’t think he wants to be buried next to James Rhodes as the two guys who ordered the on-campus slaughter of unarmed protesters. ... But, you know, when you get armed snipers on a roof, anything can happen.”
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Support news outlets like @matternews.bsky.social, who are out there putting in work covering what's really happening at campus protests.
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"Most of the young people holding the line were half the size of the police, who continued to advance on a movement they were beating into prominence."
Here's Taylor Dorrell on last week's protest at Ohio State.
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The student view from OSU’s pro-Palestine protest crackdown
Nearly 40 people were arrested last week after six hours of prayers, chants and calls for OSU to acknowledge the genocide and divest from Israel. Here's an account from two of the students arrested.
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"There's this anonymous, vague blanket of misery around the overdose crisis," Fenn said. "And we want to capture people as humans in this process, so they don't just get swept away."
Read @jackshuler.bsky.social on why you need to listen to the crackdown podcast.
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with stormy daniels trending it's worth revisiting this columbus monthly/matter news deep dive on the corrupt cpd vice unit behind her 2018 arrest.
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“I am in a small dorm/room that has its own windows. But due to the orientation of the building, I couldn’t see the actual eclipse, just the darkening of the sky,” wrote Jen.
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“I am in a small dorm/room that has its own windows. But due to the orientation of the building, I couldn’t see the actual eclipse, just the darkening of the sky,” wrote Jen.
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Forgive me Jesus, but I wrote about Ohio politics again. www.matternews.org/voices/local...
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Former PUCO chairman Sam Randazzo died by suicide on Tuesday, leaving behind questions about who else he could have implicated and how much of that information might have died along with him.
New from @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social.
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“I’ve had many conversations with incarcerated people over the years about the importance of nature, the importance of earth, the importance of the sky. And the way prison itself takes away these ... things that rejuvenate our humanity,” Safear Ness said.
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This is hard to read, but oh so worth it.
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‘Something has to change’: The police killing of Colin Jennings
In late February, Jennings’ boyfriend called 911 and said the 26-year-old was in mental health crisis. Less than 15 minutes later, Jennings was dead, shot and killed by Columbus police.
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“I couldn’t write about the truth and the lies of a city without saying, ‘I’ve seen both of those.’ Because being unhoused in a place is to be either invisible or a nuisance. … And to be an invisible entity in a place, it means you can see its bruises and brutalities and beauties.”
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They’re reinstalling it????
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The Other Columbus: Oh great, this guy again
@scottwoods.bsky.social on the impending reinstallation of the once-banished Christopher Columbus statue.
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this week at matternews.org: a columbus intersection belongs to the trucks now, dei professionals adapt, equitas health workers united moves toward a contract, the forgotten ghosts of the opioid crisis, and didi’s guitarist releases new songs to raise money for gaza.
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The forgotten ghosts of the overdose crisis
In a recent speech, West Virginia councilman Joe Solomon spoke of Charleston leading the state in ‘ghosts’ – an apt description for those so often overlooked by lawmakers.
new from @jackshuler.bsky.social.
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here is Brian’s February column on the intersection.
“There does not seem to be much connection in Columbus between pedestrian deaths and business-as-usual road projects.”
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“I knew what the vibe [in the industry] was, but it’s something quite different when you’re actually sitting at the table with women and hearing their stories around the lack of support, or funds being pulled. It’s very disheartening.” Here’s Erica Thompson’s debut for Matter News.
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On Development: Fifth and Cassady belongs to the trucks now
If we make it easier for big trucks to turn, we end up making it harder for pedestrians to cross. And city officials have made their conscious (yet unconscionable) decision to serve the trucks.
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Equitas Health workers hope new CEO won’t impede union contract
As the members of Equitas Health Workers United move into the final stages of contract negotiations, questions are being raised about incoming CEO David Ernesto Munar.
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On Development: Capital Line planners should walk before they run
The two-mile bike circulator is a fine idea, as far as it goes. But it sounds more like a tourist attraction than needed basic transportation for residents.
New from columnist Brian Williams.
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while they’re still gutting all the news rooms and continuing to whittle away at any useful and productive media (such as it is), let’s throw our support behind local, independent publications like @matternews.bsky.social.
www.matternews.org/donate
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