Yeah, i’d be curious to know how long that one was! I submitted written testimony, but didnt attend.
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Yeah, i’d be curious to know how long that one was! I submitted written testimony, but didnt attend.
I think it was the recent hearing on ICE. Was the CPD one youre referring to the one from 2020 (or was it 2021?) when Brown proposed demilitarizing CPD
and almost all the other councilmembers voted against it? Iirc Favor was the only other person who voter for it.
We did beat the record, FYI
If we beat the record 4 hour City Council hearing, the committee should have to buy us all pizza and beer
Grateful to Katy Shanahan for saying what a whole lot of folks are thinking
Had to cut some things out to try to stay within the 3 minute limit, but my full testimony and a lot of other people’s is posted here: www.columbus.gov/files/shared...
Glad OEC’s Annalisa Rocca is here bringing up health impacts and the need for policy to require behind-the-meter generation to be clean energy.
I hope there will be another hearing, because people need the opportunity to respond to the Data Center Coalition propaganda
We’re now 3 hours in and still waiting for community members to have the opportunity to speak. A lot of people who i assume had planned to speak have left.
The Data Center Coalition Rep just called data centers “the cornerstone of our modern economy.” If I were them I don’t know if I’d say that out loud.
All of us who are already mad about data centers are gonna be so hangry by the time we get up there!
We’re 2 1/2 hours into the Cbus City Council data center hearing and still not through the presentations from invited speakers. I wonder how many of us who signed up will actually get to speak.
In less than 2 months, the federal government has spent at least $215 million on a single warehouse in rural Maryland and that number could grow to $642 million. Here's where your tax dollars are going. 🧵
Informational hearing. Data Centers and Community Impacts. Wednesday, March 11. 5:30 p.m. Council Chambers. 90 West Broad Street. Watch live Facebook Youtube. Presenters. Columbus Water & Power. Policy Matters. Vista Site Selections. Central Ohio Building Trades. AEP Ohio. Data Center Coalition. Ohio Environmental Council. State Rep. Tristan Rader. To provide testimony, email clgolterman@columbus.gov with the subject "March 11 Testimony" and specify in person or written with a copy of your remarks by noon on Tuesday, March 10. In person testimony will be limited to 3 minutes.
Council’s hearing on the rapid growth of data centers in Central Ohio is this week. Hear from experts and industry leaders — and there is still time to sign up to speak or submit written testimony.
Thank you @annastaver.bsky.social and @cleveland.com for lifting up the voices of Appalachian Ohioans whose drinking water is threatened by poorly regulated toxic, radioactive waste.This issue has been front page news in Marietta for a long time, but the rest of the state doesn’t hear much about it.
Data centers have a massive impact on our environment, our health, and our energy bills and Central Ohio is disproportionately impacted as a data center hot spot. I hope lots of local folks are planning to speak or submit written testimony for this important hearing!
Last night's presser in Marietta! We want acknowledgement of the signed resolutions of putting a moratorium on the toxic Class I & II injection wells in SE Ohio! See what Susan Vessels, Marietta City Council President had to say:
www.wtap.com/2026/03/05/n...
Yearning for the days when Beth Harvilla wrote for the Dispatch. Iykyk
What’s up with Columbus air quality today, and why no news alerts about it? When I opened my door the percentage on my home air purifier in my kitchen quickly dropped about 20 points! That is not normal.
I wrote about the water crisis in West Virginia and the “they’re getting what they voted for” reactions. open.substack.com/pub/appodlac...
This is tomorrow
The funeral for 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Rohingya refugee from Burma who was found dead after he was abandoned by Border Patrol agents miles away from his home, was held yesterday in Buffalo, New York.
www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/nu...
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Thank you for bringing attention to this important issue! Marietta-area media covers Wa Co’s fight to protect local aquifers from poorly regulated injection wells on a weekly basis & a few other outlets have taken notice, but no coverage in @dispatch.com. This deserves statewide attention!
We stand with you!
Sen “Brine” Chavez says there’s nothing to worry about, so it must be true, right?
SB 329 will have proponent testimony in front of the Senate Ag & Natural Resources Committee this afternoon at 3pm.
‘“This bill, by removing the type of deicer that causes cancer, potentially bone cancer and other problems, as well as pollute our waterways, is the primary reason for doing this," Hicks-Hudson explained’
Republicans nationally agree with enviro groups when it comes to carbon capture danger, leaks & earthquakes.
Randi Pokladnik lists GOP bills protecting landowners from unconstitutional CCS eminent domain. @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4rO2QbG
@kentksmith.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social
Underground storage of carbon dioxide is also dangerous and will impact many of the same communities that are already accepting other types of waste.