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The latest posts from a mixture of traditional and new media outlets based or related to Ohio to help bridge the gap in the news we digest daily.
The Conversation U.S. For Christopher Columbus, conquest and Christianity went hand in hand. This #ColumbusDay, a historian looks at Columbus’ own writings and how spreading Christianity was intertwined with conquest and colonization from the start. theconversation.com/columbuss-ow...
League of Women Voters of Ohio Ohio's early voting continues this week 🗳In-person voting hours: 8a to 5p, Monday thru Friday this week at your county Board of Elections 📬 Vote by mail: County Boards of Elections are sending absentee ballots to voters who request them. Vote by mail voters should request & return their ballots ASAP
League of Women Voters of Ohio Since the last time Ohioans voted for members of Congress, 12.5% of us are in new US Congressional districts. Statehouse districts are different for many, too. To see if your districts have changed, go to findmydistrict.ohiosos.gov
Ohio Citizen Action Husted’s official calendars for the day HB6 was signed into law add a stark new visual record to years of emails, text messages, phone logs and sworn testimony documenting Husted’s contacts with FirstEnergy. https://tiffinohio.net/posts/husted-calendar-blacked-out-hb-6-signing-day/
Cincinnati CityBeat BLINK night two, I trekked from the Banks through the Covington Zone -- get a glimpse of what I saw here, and read more of our BLINK coverage at the link in our bio.
League of Women Voters of Ohio 🔑 Want to hold elected officials accountable? Start by knowing what we're hiring them to do 🔍 Before you cast your ballot, get to know the responsibilities of each office & how the experience, qualifications & priorities of each candidate matches up with how you want to see someone doing that job.
Ohio Citizen Action Billionaires got huge tax cuts while costs went up and wages didn’t. Brian Poindexter is running for Congress to bring down prices, raise wages, strengthen unions, and protect retirement for people who work hard. https://bit.ly/4y9FT5u
Ohio Citizen Action Ohio’s treasurer oversees about $275 billion in state investments. Seth Walsh wants more of that money invested in smaller towns and community credit unions so it helps Ohio communities grow. He also wants to fight the plan to spend Ohioans’ unclaimed funds on a stadium. https://bit.ly/3UmBBdb
PBS News Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who helped NASA land on the moon, has died. She was 90. As a young mathematician at MIT, Hamilton was the first female programmer to work on the Apollo project in the 1960s. She went on to lead the 100-person team that wrote software for the moon mission.
Honesty for Ohio Education Early voting has started! Check out our voting guide to learn what's at stake, how elected roles shape our schools, make a voting plan, and much more. Visit bit.ly/pssvoterguideohio #Ohio #OhioEducation #VoteOhio #EarlyVoting #PublicEducation #OhioVoters #EducationMatters
Cincinnati CityBeat Cincinnati’s biggest show is happening now! BLINK, the exclusive Cincinnati light and art festival, lit up the night sky Thursday for its first of four nights. Get our guide to BLINK in the comments.