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After SB5 defeat and budget that cuts funds to localities, Kasich warns against cities asking for state to ‘bail them out’

By | 11.09.11 | 7:14 pm

After voters felled Ohio Governor John Kasich’s signature anti-collective-bargaining law yesterday, he responded with an assurance that the state wasn’t going to pony up any new cash to help struggling cities.

Unions look for solidarity with Occupy Columbus protesters in labor-beleaguered Ohio

By | 10.11.11 | 12:25 pm

COLUMBUS – The Hell’s Angels of the 1960s infamously wore patches on their filthy vests embroidered with the inscription “1%-er,” a rebellious response to the American Motorcycle Association’s assertion that 99 percent of the nation’s bikers were respectable, law-abiding citizens. Now 1%-ers are vilified again, but instead of burly outlaws More…

New Mexico border town mayor, police chief arrested on drug charges

By | 03.10.11 | 8:03 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

The mayor, the police chief and a city councilman in the small New Mexico border town of Columbus were arrested on drug trafficking and firearm charges Thursday morning. The arrests were part of raids by agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement More…

Ana Marie Cox’s Video Update from Ohio

By | 10.31.08 | 5:36 pm

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports via video from Columbus, Ohio. Here it is, after the jump: