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This year’s Juneteenth holiday celebrated tomorrow marks a year of firsts — organizations hosting their first ever celebrations, Franklin County and the city of Columbus making it a paid holiday, and the United States making it a federal holiday. Local organizations and leaders spoke about the holiday’s significance this year, especially after a year of trauma in the Black community.
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Arts & CultureIt's Yellow Springs night when the Tribeca Film Festival wraps up Saturday at New York's Radio City Music Hall. -
Ohio is dropping more COVID restrictions on nursing homes and assisted living centers.
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June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The City of Columbus provided updates Thursday afternoon on the community sports park that will take over the Historic Crew Stadium space.
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Former President Donald Trump is planing a Northeast Ohio rally for next week in what his backers bill as the “first of many appearances in support of candidates and causes that further the MAGA agenda and accomplishments of President Trump’s administration.”
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Groups representing Ohio’s school boards, school administrators and school financial officials are raising serious concerns about the Senate’s version of the budget, which blew up the $1.8 billion school funding formula overhaul in the House budget.
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The Ohio Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill legalizing sports gambling, overseen by the Casino Control Commission. The House will now consider the bill, but has wanted the Ohio Lottery to control sports betting.
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Schools nationwide are experiencing a shortage in bus drivers, and Columbus City Schools is no exception to the trend. That’s why transportation officials in the district proposed busing high schoolers on COTA buses and K-8th grade students on school buses in the fall.
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Republicans in the Senate have added to their budget a provision that could directly affect the upcoming process to draw new maps for a 15-member Congressional delegation as well as the Ohio House and Senate.
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