Entries by Fitrakis

Bob Bytes Back Archive: 7/17/1996 Clap If You Believe

7/17/1996 by Bob Fitrakis The rich and powerful still have faith in Tommy Banks Is this a great country or what? From Les Wright, decked out in her Sunday best at Wednesdays press conference supporting Banks on the near east side, to the Dispatch, which dutifully reported that he paid his debt in a headline. […]

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Bob Bytes Back Archives: 7/10/1996 Building Relationships

7/10/1996 FEATURED ARTICLE Building relationships by Sally MacPhail and Bob Fitrakis When the governor’s chief of staff announced his resignation June 24, it took many political insiders by surprise. Though Paul Mifsud-whose hard-hitting style had earned him one of the most powerful positions in the Voinovich administration-claimed that he was leaving office to spend more […]

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Democracy In The Balance: Indiana Goes Jim Crow

by Bob Fitrakis The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in favor of the Hoosier state’s Jim Crow voter identification law sanctions the continual racist assault upon black voters and institutionalizes the disenfranchisement of the poor. Not surprisingly, the axis of evil — Justices Anton Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — claim that “the law should […]

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Why Hillary Wins The Big States

by Bob Fitrakis Many people have asked me my thoughts about the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Here’s my brief analysis of why Hillary appears to be “winning” many large states. Obama actually won in Texas, he barely lost the primary but won the caucus later that night and got more delegates than […]

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Bob Bytes Back Archive: 7/10/1996 Tommy Takes The Town

by Bob Fitrakis Tommy, George and Greg and Bob Dole would have to be an idiot to pick George Voinovich for vice president. Despite the obligatory fawning articles this past Sunday in both the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Voinovich-to borrow a phrase from President eagan-is up to his keister in a scandal. […]

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Bob Bytes Back Archive: 7/03/1996 Family Values

7/03/1996 Family Values by Bob Fitrakis Hey, did you hear the one about the governor’s chief of staff, Paul Mifsud, recently resigning “to spend more time with his family”? Family values, you gotta love those Republicans. I mean, here’s this guy at the pinnacle of power practically deciding who gets what contract, grant, tax abatement, […]

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City Of Peace

By Bob Fitrakis April 3, 2008 The great moral issue of our era is the illegal war in Iraq. Like the issues of slavery, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War in past epochs, silence on this issue equals complicity. On March 17, the Citizens Grassroots Congress presented a Columbus “City for Peace” resolution […]

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