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Nice reporting from OSU student pub The Lantern

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers had 'long-range firearms' trained at a peaceful assembly on campus as part of 'protocol'

A spokesman said this is to protect the safety of 'all present'
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Wonderful news for Aaron Portzline! So happy for you, Porty. And, what a wonderful gift from Lindy Noel. Thank you. Be a donor. wosu.org/sports/2024-04…

on last night's Israel-Palestine protests/arrests at Ohio State, Gov. Mike DeWine tells me:

“Ohio State is balancing the observance of their rules with the First Amendment rights that people have. they allowed the demonstrations to continue, but they do have a rule that...” (1/)

FirstEnergy for the first time concedes it’s “reasonably possible it will incur a loss” from Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission. $FE claims any payment is “not expected to be material” even though it “cannot yet reasonably estimate a loss” 🤔sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archiv…

Ohio lawmakers advance bill to curb medical sexual abuse following Richard Strauss scandal at Ohio State cleveland.com/news/2024/04/o…

Another continuance. No DOJ response to Larry Householder's appeal until May 28.

A quote I liked from Doug Berman, who runs the Drug Enforcement Policy Center at OSU Law.

“My sense is that our drug laws are already pretty darn harsh. The curse here is the more we try to bail out this ocean, the more we discover the waves keep coming.”

The ACLU's lobbyist told me this is the worst 'war on drugs' bill he has seen in 15 years.

Doctors and drug policy experts agreed. The bill, they say, is just going to swell up the prison rolls with low-level offedners without fixing the overdose crisis cleveland.com/open/2024/04/o…

A broad, bipartisan majority of the Ohio House passed legislation Wednesday to ratchet up penalties for those who knowingly sell or unknowingly possess drugs laced with fentanyl.

Bill passed with backing from police, prosecutors
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Really appreciated the eyes on the mess at OSU last night from Cole Daniel Behrens Shahid Meighan George Shillcock III and others.

Chaos on the @ohiostate campus as police drove demonstrators off the green and made well over a dozen arrests.

Seen 6+ arrests at this point

They’ve arrested almost a dozen people so far. 4-5 officers per person they haul off

I was a student journo at Ohio State during the height of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020-21. They were peaceful, but large and loud, and the university easily could have considered them 'disruptive.' But they were allowed to proceed without question.

Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

'That could well be an official act,' Trump lawyer John Sauer says

Christina Bobb, the Trump attorney who was just indicted in the Arizona fake elector scheme, was recently named as a senior counsel for 'election integrity' for the Republican National Committee.

Eviction filings were at a 20-year high in Franklin County in 2023, making the pressure to avoid eviction a common struggle for many Columbus renters.

On each day of 2023, an average of 65 evictions were filed.

A sobering reality from Danae King
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