March 2011
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WatchIt turns out Ohio State University students have come to love their student union enough to give it a birthday hug.
“They have really nice bathrooms at the Union. Did you know that? I’m not even playin’, though. For real.”
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“Protesting today is about trying to get attention. If you can make a video and...”
– Bill Wasik, flash-mob founding father and senior editor for Wired, on the use of flash mobs for social protests.
A story in today’s Dispatch explores the evolution of flash mobs from Wasik’s original, agenda-free methods to a modern-day version of the picket line.
WatchThe hail in Columbus doesn’t look too bad in this video!
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Nealor Green is an 84-year-old woman who wears suits with beaded collars and walks with a crutch because of arthritis in her legs.
But she’s also the Rappin’ Granny, a quick-tongued poet who knows all about life on the streets.
Read the Dispatch story for more.
Video by Doral Chenoweth III
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Cavity search of woman yields 54 bags of heroin,... →
Someone get this lady a purse.
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Man killed by train in Pataskala
2. Motorists, cyclists need to learn how to share pavement
3. Web Xtra | NCAA Tournament: Scarlet & Gray Matta
4. Census shows wide variation in where children live in central Ohio
5. Job searches complicated by checking your credit
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WatchAnother “flash mob” protest! This time, ProgressOhio visited Huntington Bank on South High Street and sang a parody of Ohio’s official rock song, Hang On Sloopy.
Video by Doral Chenoweth III
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Woman turns $50 into 26 beds for kids at family center
2. Men’s basketball: Buckeyes roll in their tournament opener
3. College staffs fear Kasich’s budget will overload them
4. Pedestrian killed on I-670 identified
5. Columbus man’s fetish earns jail, house arrest
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Ohio State football: Tressel chooses to sit five games after NCAA denies appeal on players
2. Flaw found in proposed pension shift
3. Ex-school bus driver charged with asking kid for sex
4. Pedestrian killed on ramp
5. First breakfast, then protest at Bob Evans
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WatchDispatch critic Nick Chordas reviews Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Kasich looks to extract savings from pensions
2. Students grieve for beloved teacher killed in collision
3. Closing state tax offices eliminates 99 jobs
4. Budget uses accounting maneuvers
5. State budget is a sad story for small libraries
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Kasich’s budget slashes aid to local governments
2. Ohio’s schools chief is forced to resign
3. 5 prisons to be put on block by state
4. Police ID I-270 crash victim
5. Kasich has been working years on budget
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The most popular stories yesterday on...
1. Dublin boy, 6, dies in outdoor slide incident
2. Man dies after being punched on South Side
3. NCAA Tournament: Ohio State is overall No.1 seed, headed to Cleveland
4. Men’s basketball: Buckeyes win Big Ten tourney
5. Death toll of ‘ten thousands’ predicted in Japan
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Can the Best Ice Cream in America be the Biggest? →
beesue:
We’re going to be very busy this summer…
Columbus-based Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams shows up in TIME. Good thing we live in Columbus (with seven locations to choose from) and don’t have to take advantage of that online store the article mentions!
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WatchOSU football coach Jim Tressel, who was hit with a two-game suspension and $250,000 fine for violating his contract and NCAA rules, shares what he was thinking when he decided not to come forward regarding four e-mails from an unnamed lawyer, who on April 2 linked two Ohio State players to Ed Rife, a Columbus tattoo-parlor owner who was under federal investigation for serious criminal activity.
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WatchEmotions ran high at the Ohio Statehouse today, where Gov. John Kasich gave his State of the State address and protesters of a bill to limit public employees’ collective-bargaining rights gathered to voice their opposition.
Video by Dispatch videographer Doral Chenoweth III
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“It’s not yet known whether Tressel, expected to make about $3.5 million...”
– Dispatch sports reporter Tim May, on the investigation of a tip that Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel knew of his players’ violations long before it was brought to the school’s attention that Terrelle Pryor, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey, Mike Adams, Solomon Thomas and Jordan...
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