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The First Collective Iftar in Columbus, Ohio

Mahmoud El-Yousseph

Collective iftar is the name for the evening meal that Muslims break their fast with after sunset every day during the month of Ramadan. This year, the first day of Ramadan will fall on Wednesday…

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NYTimes Letters: Bernie Should Tell Gavin to Cease His War Against Renewable Energy, by Harvey Wasserman

Harvey "Sunny" Wasserman

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Bernie should tell…

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Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother

Greg Palast

For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He’s the only man, other than my dad, I’ve ever kissed, a year ago. When I kissed him goodbye he was holding our …

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Solar News This Week-February 15, 2026

Jay Warmke

Trump's DOE apparently unable to function

The Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy has lost the staff required to properly oversee about $27 billion in funded…

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Statewide Support Needed to Protect Free Speech in Ohio (SB 87)

SB 87 is legislation currently moving through the Ohio Senate that raises serious concerns for free speech, civil liberties, and constitutional protections.

This bill would incorporate the IHRA definition of antisemitism into Ohio law and attach it to the state’s ethnic intimidation statute. Legal experts and civil rights advocates have warned that doing so risks conflating political speech with discriminatory intent and could create a chilling effect on protest, academic discussion, journalism, and advocacy.

Ohio already has strong laws addressing hate crimes, discrimination,…

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Map, killer robot and archaeological

Archeological surveys are a joke in this town, claim Anduril’s killer flying AI robots

Free Press Staff

A longtime historian from Pickaway County revealed to the Free Press what many had surmised. That the archeological survey conducted at the future site of Arsenal-1 was completed by amateurs hired by Anduril’s construction company. 

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Keeping hope alive

Bob Fitrakis

The Reverend Jesse Jackson arranged a conference call with me, his staff and others in Columbus right after the 2004 presidential election. The Free Press had reported on the suspicious election results giving George W. Bush a narrow victory in…

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Proximity

Joshua C Lesser

For decades, if you moved inside the corridors of American Jewish leadership, one name surfaced again and again.

On fellowship diplomas.
On donor walls.
On the resumes of rabbis, federation executives, nonprofit leaders, and Israeli…

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Trump cannot stop the mass killing in Gaza because Israel has him compromised

Mahmoud El-Yousseph

President Trump saying his Gaza peace plan will end the war between Israel and Hamas and launch a new era of peace in the Middle East is pure poppycock. Four months into the ceasefire, progress on implementing the 20-point plan appears to be…

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