Entries by Fitrakis

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Free Film And Discussion, Today, Cheney’s Law, Bexley, Ohio

Come join us to see the FREE film: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008 – 7:30pm Cheney’s Law at the Drexel East Theater, 2254 Main St., Bexley Discussion to follow screening in the Drexel Radio Cafe next door 253-2571, truth@freepress.org For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually […]

ON IMPEACHMENT, Ohio’s Kucinich, Reasons To Impeach

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday, June 11 to send articles  of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee for  review. The impeachment resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Dennis Kucinich,  requested a recorded vote on the motion around 3 p.m. Wednesday, and 24 Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in voting to send the  impeachment measure to […]

Columbus, Ohio, Cheney’s Law, FRONTLINE Documentary, FREE FILM NIGHT!

JUNE 24, 2008 – 7:30pm Sponsored by the Drexel East Theater, the Free Press, and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund Drexel East Theater, 2254 Main St., Bexley Discussion to follow screening in the Drexel Radio Cafe next door 253-2571, truth@freepress.org For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give […]

One Good Thing About Reagan

By Bob Fitrakis Thank God for the feds. In a little over two decades they’ve made the elusive “two toke” wonderjoint a common reality. On Friday, June 13, the Columbus Dispatch reported the University of Mississippi findings on the potency of today’s marijuana. Back when I was in college in 1976, the average THC content […]

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June 14, Richard Hayes Phillips At Free Press/Green Education Fund Second Saturday Salon

June 14 Free Press/Green Education Fund Second Saturday Salon Join other progressives for an evening of socializing, food, drink, Bob and Harvey radio show recorded live! and “Witness to a Crime” presentation/book signing by Richard Hayes Phillips. 6:30pm-midnight Free Press office, 1000 E. Main St., Columbus, Ohio parking in rear or next door at the […]

Bob Bytes Back Archive: 8/07/96 Out Of The Frying Pan

8/07/1996 by Bob Fitrakis Governor George Voinovich couldn’t “stand the heat,” so “he got out of the kitchen.” The Guv got out of the VP stakes because of the growing contract-steering scandal with links to organized crime figures in Cleveland. One look at Voinovich’s FBI file would’ve had Bob Dole muttering “Bob Dole’s not about […]

Bob Bytes Back Archive: 7/31/1996 The Governor…And The Mob?

7/31/1996 by Bob Fitrakis Are they or aren’t they investigating Governor Voinovich’s administration? It’s become a semantics debate. Voinovich campaign contributions, yes; administration, no. The July issue of the Ohio Observer originally reported that the FBI was investigating charges of contract steering in the Voinovich administration. Then a week ago Sunday, the Cincinnati Enquirer confirmed […]