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When the chickens come home to roost

Columbus City Schools move to cut bussing for high schoolers, Jerry Cirino's downfall is imminent, and the Republican junta can pry Zoloft from my cold, dead hands.

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D.J. Byrnes
Oct 09, 2025
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CLEVELAND — That’s right, folks. This dispatch is coming to you from the City That Never Sleeps. I love everything about this city, other than its absurdly wide downtown roads.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t bring my desktop computer to edit the videos that I took at the Statehouse on Wednesday.

Please forgive me, but I’ll h…

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